Vocabulary Assignment Pdf

[Tea Rochlitz]

Learningnew words is like adding to your writing toolbox. The more tools available, the more interesting and engaging your writing becomes. Check out these fun and engaging vocabulary activities for kids in grades K-12, and supply your students with the tools they need to build their wordsmith skills.

Using vocabulary words in writing shows mastery. Challenge your students to use all of their vocabulary words in an original short story. Allow students to pair up and share their stories with a partner.

Creating word maps from vocabulary words encourages students to find the relationships between the vocabulary word and other words. Have them include words, pictures, examples, real-world connections, definitions, descriptive words, etc.

Hang six to eight large sheets of chart paper in various places around the room. On each sheet, write one vocabulary word. Have students work in small groups, rotating between stations. At each station, ask students to come up with a different, original way to use each word. Continue the activity until all students have visited every station.

This fun activity requires students to draw a picture for each word to create their own visual dictionary. When students create their own visual representations, they develop an association with the word that they will be able to tap into when needed.

Think of a vocabulary graffiti wall like a collaborative word wall. In the classroom, post the words on the wall and have kids add sticky notes to illustrate the term (they can use words or pictures). Online, try a tool like Padlet or Google Slides.

This vocabulary game is fun and challenging, and it can be played by kids of any age. Choose a word, then challenge kids to come up with related words for as many letters as possible. These could be synonyms, antonyms, examples, and more. Trickier letters are worth more points!

Vocabulary words take on greater meaning when students incorporate them into their daily lives. Challenge kids to use their vocab words in conversation and writing outside the language arts classroom. Use the free printable worksheet here to help them keep track of how often they use them.

Colorful organizers like these are terrific vocabulary activities. Want to go digital? Have kids make a slideshow, one slide per word. They can include the same information, but instead of drawing a picture, have them find one online that illustrates the concept.

Post a list of target vocab words. If a student uses one of the words in class (outside of vocabulary activities), they become a member of the Million Dollar Word Club! You can have them sign their name on a wall in the classroom or award a badge online. You could even develop this into a reward system for homework passes or extra credit.

This is one of those vocabulary activities kids will want to do over and over again! Assign each student a word and have them create a faux Facebook, Instagram, or other social media page for it. They can draw them freehand or complete a template like these from Teachers Pay Teachers. Post the images to a shared Google slideshow so other students can use them for review.

Have students draw a diagonal line across an index card. On the top half, have them write the vocabulary word and definition. On the bottom half, have them draw a picture of the word and use it in a sentence. Cards can be joined together in a strip for easy review.

Use plastic letters, magnet letters, or letter blocks to make words. Play it mentally with older kids, or with paper and pencil. Simply give your children some letters and challenge them to make words from those letters.

Students must successfully finish at least one practice activity to unlock the Vocabulary TestMe quiz. To complete the assignment, students must pass the Vocabulary TestMe with a score of 80% or better.

Besides that, my vocabulary book contained just enough lessons to do one per week. Even though the words in that vocabulary book were interesting, many of those words were not going to be useful in the future. In fact, most of them were not included in the reading and writing my students were doing in my class or in others.

When I learned about the brain and began to understand memory, I researched how the brain is wired for reading and the importance of vocabulary was more evident. Getting vocabulary words into long-term memory was certainly key to helping students understand and remember content.

How do teachers find the time to teach vocabulary, especially teachers in departmentalized situations in which they may only have periods lasting 40-45 minutes? An important piece of research caught my eye and filled me with hope. Students can benefit from brief encounters with words.

Most of my time is spent doing professional development with teachers these days. As I embarked on my vocabulary journey, I found myself challenging those teachers to create lessons in 10 minutes or less.

First, I modeled several lessons and let the naysayers time me. Then we had to evaluate both the necessity of the lesson and its level of success. Would a five-minute introduction to a word be valuable? Could two minutes of transition time really help with word learning, and better yet, allow for word ownership? In every instance, sometimes with some tweaking, the answer was yes.

Use academic vocabulary in your classroom on a regular basis and you will begin to hear your students using those same words. If we can explicitly teach about 300 words per year to our students, it can make a big difference in their vocabularies.

Some students will learn about 3000 or 4000 words per year due to the literacy that surrounds them, while others have limited access and will only learn 1000. Imagine how much you will be helping those students who have limited outside access to greater vocabulary.

Among her many other books (all from ASCD) are How to Teach So Students Remember, Second Edition ; Social-Emotional Learning and the Brain: Strategies to Help Your Students Thrive; and The Essential 25: Teaching the Vocabulary That Makes or Breaks Student Understanding. See all of her MiddleWeb articles here.

When I started teaching, I knew I had to include vocabulary into my curriculum. Overwhelmed with all of the typical new teacher stress, I adopted the ancient practice of: vocabulary lesson on Monday, Kahoot! Review on Thursday, and vocabulary quiz on Friday. I even created a summative vocabulary test for students to take at the end of each quarter. I quickly realized that students were memorizing parts of the definition (enough to do well on the matching portion of the quiz) and had no clue how to use the words in sentences, as they did poorly on that portion of the quiz.

The first thing to know about the vocabulary slide deck is that it is not a traditional list of 10-15 words that students have for one or two weeks. This is a growing slide deck (I use Google Sides because my school uses Google Classroom) that we add to 2-3 words at a time. Students are given these words before they come across them in the text. I provide students with the word and the definition, then we try to figure out the part of speech together (this typically depends on the level of students I have). Students are responsible for creating a sentence that uses the word in context, as well as finding or creating a picture/ GIF/ meme that represents the word.

These are the directions I include in the Slide Deck. Students will each get a copy of the slide deck and they will add a slide for each word. For my lower-level courses, I create the slides ahead of time and pre-label each slide with one word.

After about 10 (or so) words, students will turn in their slide decks and begin to work on the next step of the process. This allows me to check their sentences and ensure that they are meeting the formative task of using these words in context before they get too far into their summative.

These are the directions for the vocabulary in context assignment. Below these directions, I list the words from the slide deck as a reminder to students. In my lower-level classes, I will require less words in this assignment (6/9 words, for example).

It is rare that there are 10 words in one slide deck. I try to create a break in the slide deck when it makes the most sense: halfway through the book or perhaps when the book is taking a dramatic turn. The unit that I have used this with so far was a unit dealing with Justice and Power. There were 2 slide decks: 1 for pre-reading and front-loading vocabulary words and 1 for words that were found throughout the book. In a book like Animal Farm, I might split it up every couple of chapters.

The important part to remember about this shift in vocabulary content is that there are 2 goals: 1) students understand the words when they come across them in the reading and 2) students can use the words in context on their own.

A vocabulary twist on a classic game! Most kids already know how to play Go Fish, so this is an easy one to learn. Plus, the focus on root words is an AWESOME way to equip students with the tools to tackle big words!

This is a great vocabulary activity to let students do the teaching and learn from their peers. It is a great confidence boost, and teaching is one of the best ways to learn something in long-term memory!

This is a great motivator for actually USING new vocabulary words learned! And the more they use their new vocab words, the more the meaning will become solidified in their natural language.

This specification describes the Activity vocabulary. It is intended to be used in the context of the ActivityStreams 2.0 format and provides a foundational vocabulary for activity structures, and specific activity types.

This draft is heavily influenced by the JSON Activity Streams 1.0 specification originally co-authored by Martin Atkins, Will Norris, Chris Messina, Monica Wilkinson, Rob Dolin and James Snell. The author is very thankful for their significant contributions and gladly stands on their shoulders. Some portions of the original text of Activity Streams 1.0 are used in this document.

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