To continue with my series on vocabulary development, I've decided to tackle a common problem that readers face when they've learned to decode small words but are stumped when they come across longer and more complex words. A great vocabulary learning activity that you can use to help overcome this hurdle is a activity that I first learned about from the book Phonics they use by Patricia M. Cunningham called Big Word Collector.
  | To motivate your students to start they're own word collections I found this book to be great. In this picture book by Kate Banks, Max is envious of his brothers collections so he decides to start a collection of his own; a collection of words. You can encourage your students to do what Max did and create big word collections. This activity can help students as they build their vocabulary, increase their writing ability, and learn to easily decode big words. |
To encourage my students to increase their word collections I've created these great reading awards.
You can get these four awards plus 50 more awards in my e-book Award, Certificates, Achievements and more.
You can also visit my Vocabulary Games or Vocabulary Activities pages for more great ideas on increasing students vocabulary knowledge.
You can get these four awards plus 50 more awards in my e-book Award, Certificates, Achievements and more.
You can also visit my Vocabulary Games or Vocabulary Activities pages for more great ideas on increasing students vocabulary knowledge.
