The fantastic Jenna over at Speech Room News has set up another Love it and List it party. It’s an opportunity to list 3-5 of your favorite products or ways to work on the topic of the month. This month is focusing on Vocabulary. I tend to teach vocabulary by focusing on: multiple meaning words, prefixes/suffixes, teaching a strategy for definitions and teaching synonyms/antonyms. In school settings I will focus on teaching curriculum vocabulary, but I don’t focus as much on specific vocabulary teaching in outpatient settings. Here are some of my favorites:
1. The Expanding Expression Tool (EET) : I bet this one is on a lot of lists. This is a great tool for teaching kids a strategy for defining and thinking about vocabulary words. I LOVE the physical aspect of this. I use the EET strand, student strands, steppers and stickers! This is one of the first things I pull out in therapy.
2. Descripto Bingo: Before I used EET, I liked using the initial “Detective map” in Descripto Bingo to help my clients develop a visual map for defining words.
3. Word Joggers and Word Joggers Junior: I love these two products for providing a variety of ways to target vocabulary and word retrieval
5. Word Feast-Middle School: I used this a lot with my middle school and high school students to work on vocabulary within oral reading tasks. They do a great job of building on the vocabulary taught throughout each lesson too!
I’m really excited to see what everyone else has listed-I’m always looking for new ways to teach vocabulary. Check out everyone else’s suggestions or link up by heading over to Speech Room News.
Thanks for linking up!
Jenna
I use “Descripto Bingo” a LOT!