The Word Conscious Classroom

The Word Conscious Classroom
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Serving Sweet Vocabulary Instruction

  1. 11/25/2018

    Episode 31: Metalinguistic Awareness and Grammatical Awareness in Action

    How does teaching parts of speech enhance word consciousness and ones ability to solve analogies? Well, the more one knows about words, the more word consciousness he or she will gain. This means that a close look at English grammar needs to happen within a word conscious classroom. The teachingRead More

    22 min

  2. 11/18/2018

    Episode 30: Specific Word Learning

    For the majority of my teaching career, I have been teaching vocabulary using the specific word learning technique. According to the Vocabulary Handbook, this technique falls under intentional vocabulary teaching. Hence, many of the passages from our anthologies and basal readers utilize specific word learning as an intentional instructional approach toRead More

    22 min

  3. 11/11/2018

    Episode 29: Reading like Detectives – Using the Elements of Thought while Reading

    Teaching students to pay attention to text is what I’ve been focusing a lot of my energy on lately. It has been my experience that students have been over-taught how to decode words, and under-taught how to figure out what the author is doing with those words and with theRead More

    27 min

  4. 11/04/2018

    Episode 28: R.O.P.E. Strategy for Analogy Instruction

    A few years ago, I went to a professional development workshop on using Analogies for teaching gifted learners. The presenter provided a strategy entitled R.O.P.E. which stands for Relationships, Order of words, Part of speech, and Exactness. I was fascinated by this strategy and I started using it with my students.Read More

    31 min

  5. 10/21/2018

    Episode 26: Unlocking Text with Morphological Study

    As I set up my classroom for word study, I consulted the Growing Words: Word Part Instruction Guide.  Before I introduced the Word Part of the Week, I wanted to introduce Latin and Greek Roots to my students in a creative way.  I started looking online for materials that would setRead More

    26 min

  6. 10/14/2018

    Episode 25: Teaching Students about Compound Words

    In a previous post, I wrote about encouraging students to look inside of words for spelling patterns. In this week’s post, I am directing students to look inside of words again, but this time we are focusing on smaller words, words that are considered Anglo-Saxon base words. I then explainRead More

    25 min

  7. 10/07/2018

    Episode 24: Looking Inside of Words

    The more I build a word conscious classroom, the more I am committed to word study. Scott, Skobel, and Wells (2008) argued that words are the lifeblood of literacy. Hence, word study should be central to all literacy instruction. Included in word study is spelling, decoding (word calling), and wordRead More

    26 min

  8. 09/30/2018

    Episode 23: Vocabulary Ladders and AAVE

    I speak African American Vernacular of English (AAVE) and at times, it trips me up. As it happens, in this podcast episode, you will hear me mispronounce one of our vocabulary words. Plus, if you’ve been following my podcast, then you know that I mix up my verb tenses andRead More

    21 min
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