Teaching vocabulary is often underestimated. Some
teachers do not make the time to make sure that students truly understand the
meaning of words. Honestly, I do not think that I really had any teachers in
school that helped me figure out what words meant. I like to learn and I read a
lot and so that is how I learned the meanings of many vocabulary words.
Unfortunately, most students do not know how to learn the meaning of words on
their own. So, they must be taught. Instructors must teach students strategies
for learning words independently. Students must be given the strategies that
they can understand and use them on their own.
The word exercise in chapter 7 called Context Plus seems to be a pretty good exercise. I think I could use this exercise to help my students understand some historical concepts in the lesson. It certainly could not be used on every word because it would take too long. However, if I chose the right word, it could be an effective exercise. I don’t really like the idea of a word wall but I do like the idea of students making alphabetical lists of history words in their notebook. This way they are learning to organize the words and they will have the words with them when they are reading independently outside of the classroom.
In one of my ESL classes I learned about an assessment or exercise called the Cloze test. Chapter 7 introduces an activity similar to the cloze test. It is a paragraph that has a few words missing in the passage. The students have to use their prior knowledge and the context of the passage to fill in the correct word for each missing blank. I think this exercise can be very helpful for students. It allows them to practice different reading skills and word comprehension. The students need to use the text to determine the correct missing word. It can be very successful in an ESL classroom as well as in a history classroom.
The word exercise in chapter 7 called Context Plus seems to be a pretty good exercise. I think I could use this exercise to help my students understand some historical concepts in the lesson. It certainly could not be used on every word because it would take too long. However, if I chose the right word, it could be an effective exercise. I don’t really like the idea of a word wall but I do like the idea of students making alphabetical lists of history words in their notebook. This way they are learning to organize the words and they will have the words with them when they are reading independently outside of the classroom.
In one of my ESL classes I learned about an assessment or exercise called the Cloze test. Chapter 7 introduces an activity similar to the cloze test. It is a paragraph that has a few words missing in the passage. The students have to use their prior knowledge and the context of the passage to fill in the correct word for each missing blank. I think this exercise can be very helpful for students. It allows them to practice different reading skills and word comprehension. The students need to use the text to determine the correct missing word. It can be very successful in an ESL classroom as well as in a history classroom.
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