Monday, January 26, 2009

Context Clues and associating words with text.

Vocabulary and Listening or Reading Comprehension.

Y-I like for students to use words in a story to help them understand the meaning of unfamiliar words. I use magazine articles, library books, leveled readers, and newspapers.
We will use dictionaries to help with the meaning of words and to expand our vocabulary.

Y-I have students to read silently then we will read as a group (round robin). This helps students to improve their listening and reading skills. This also helps the students with word pronunciation and phonics when sounding out unfamiliar words.

Y-Make a word wall using vocabulary words that have two-or-more syllables. This activity will help students with letter sound knowledge.

Nancy Watts-3rd & 4th Grade
Shady Point Elementary

2 comments:

mechelle said...

These activities would be good to do in small groups in the library. Each student could take a book to read. When finished the student could then point out some of the words they had trouble with, then work as a group to figure out the meaning.

Genia said...

I use a word wall in my Kindergarten classroom. I use high frequency words as they appear in our pre-decodable and decodable readers.