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Having students keep vocabulary journals is a great way for students to organize, learn, and review vocabulary words. The templates that I've created let students record there understanding of the word, mark their favorite words, define the vocabulary term in their own words, draw a picture, find synonyms and antonyms and finally write a sentence for the word. These will be available as a free download for today only so get yours quickly. Afterwards they will be available for purchase from this site. Get your free copy by clicking on one of the pictures below or the download link. I have free give-aways of my new products to reward those who subscribe to my blog or who like me on Facebook. You can do both on the sidebar to the right.
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I've finally completed the 3rd grade version of Flyswatter Vocabulary. This game has 8 weeks worth of vocabulary words to use, along with blank templates to make more of your own. I've also added some graphic organizers to the pack. You can see previews of them in the pictures below. You can purchase this e-book for $3.00 by clicking on the buy now button below.
You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop. Last week I blogged about a fun vocabulary game called Flyswatter Vocabulary and since then I've been working on a resource pack to go along with this game. In this package there will be 8 weeks worth of vocabulary words, along with word cards, worksheets and graphic organizers.
I'm almost finished with it, but to get everyone excited for its release I'm going to Post the first weeks of activities today. So you can click on the picture below or the file below the picture to start your download. I hope everyone enjoys it. The free giveaway is over you can now purchase the complete Flyswatter Vocabulary from this site. Field trips are great ways to expand students background knowledge around a topic as well as their vocabulary but we don't always have enough time or resources to get students out of the classroom. The great news is that with just a computer, a connection to the internet, and a projector you can take your students on virtual field trips. If you have checked it out yet there is a great new site that would be a great tool to planning a virtual field trip called MentorMob. I would highly recommend that you try it out. The site is still new so there are that many of what they call Playlists. (A collection of websites around a topic that you view in a certain order) I am linking to one about the causes of World War II so you can get an overview of what the site is like. Main Causes of World War II - MentorMob To see more ideas on teaching vocabulary and for a step by step guide to planning a virtual field trip, visit my Vocabulary Activities page. Having kids use foldables is a great way for students to remember new information. It helps engage students in their learning, provide kinesthetic feedback for students, and helps students learn to take notes. I got the idea for this vocabulary foldable from A teacher's treasure blog. I put my own twist on the idea and have created a printable that you can use for the foldable. To make the foldable cut out the pieces on the Vocabulary Foldable printable and then use the above picture as a model when putting the foldable together. For more ideas on teaching vocabulary visit my Vocabulary Games and Vocabulary Activities pages.
In this vocabulary graphic organizer, students will start by putting their vocabulary word in the cloud on the right. They will write synonyms of their word in the raindrops. The definition goes on the lighting bolt and antonyms go under the umbrella. Hope everyone enjoys this freebie! Find more great ideas for teaching vocabulary and more vocabulary graphic organizers on the Vocabulary activities page. You can download this vocabulary graphic organizer by clicking on the link below.
I've just finished a new e-book called Word Investigation. This book is full of graphic organizers that you can use to analysis morphemes in words. Doing this activity will help your students to recognize patterns in words, which in turn will help them to build their vocabularies, become better spellers and decode big words.
These graphic organizers are based on the idea of Morphemic Triangles by Rod Winters. To learn more about them I suggest you read the article he wrote for the Reading Teacher. Winters, R.. (2009). Interactive Frames for Vocabulary Growth and Word Consciousness. The Reading Teacher, 62(8), 685-690. The free giveaway is over, but you can purchase these graphic organizers buy clicking the buy now button below. You can also find many other great ideas for teaching vocabulary by visiting my Vocabulary Activities page. You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop. Lately I've been seeing lots of different ways to use cootie catchers in the classroom, from math facts to reading. So I thought, why not vocabulary? Now I've created 12 different cootie catchers to help students expand their vocabulary. These Cootie catchers are designed help students practice their synonyms and antonyms. You can get these worksheets now on the new websites shop. Directions Player 1: Choose a word and count the number of letters in the word. Player 2: Open and close the cootie catcher that many times. Player 1: Choose a number inside the cootie catcher. Player 2: Lift the chosen flap and read the directions. Player 1: Complete the action inside the flap. Actions
S - Chose a synonym of the word A- Choose an antonym of the word Lose a turn - Your turn is over it's the next players turn. Say it in a Sentence - Say the synonym or antonym of the word you picked in a sentence. Double Trouble – You must think of two synonyms or antonyms. Battle Round – Players take turns saying synonyms or antonyms of the chosen word the player who runs out of words the soonest looses. 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 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. This is activity is based on a vocabulary strategy developed by Magaret Richek. In it a teacher picks vocabulary words from a story that is going to be read. Then before the story is read students will compose their own writings either together as a class or individually. When writing the stories students must:
Margaret Ann Richek. (2005). Words are wonderful: Interactive, time-efficient strategies to teach meaning vocabulary. The Reading Teacher, 58(5), 414-423. The word bank in this pdf is editable so you can insert the vocabulary words that you are currently working on. You can't however save the edited version you will have to print it out. You can also find many more ideas for teaching vocabulary on my Vocabulary Activities page and my Vocabulary Games page.
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