The strategies presented in this article can be helpful and interesting to children of all ages. One strategy that I like for younger children is using visual displays of word relationships within text. A word cloud, as I have added above is a free and useful way to use this strategy. They are easy to create and customize to fit the needs and interests of your students. Other online resources, games and field trips using vocabulary as a focus are also very helpful for increasing the vocabulary of children of all ages. Children also would enjoy using digital text and audio-book type technology for vocabulary study, which is not only fun but helpful as well. I encourage you to consider how you might incorporate technology into vocabulary study in your classroom. Also, do you think the strategies in these articles will continue to be useful in increasing vocabulary development if more research is done?
Our society is surrounded by technology. As teachers we will definitely have to learn how to incorporate it into our classroom. I think technology will become even more prevalent in classrooms as every year goes by. I love all the vocabulary games that the articles provided to do on the computer. I think they are very beneficial to students. However, I think teachers need to make sure that they also provide real world practice opportunities for the children. Students need to be able to show that they can also use vocabulary in every day conversations.
ReplyDeleteI definitely think the strategies in this article will maintain their use as more research is done because they are a stepping off point. As people learn more about vocabulary and how students learn they can look to these techniques and modify them to fit new knowledge.
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