I love teaching vocabulary to students, my background both as a kinesthetic learner and a lover of ASL helps me to think of creative ways to incorporate both into a lesson whenever I can. The students' usually respond positively. After teaching this lesson, my goals are to come up with creative ways to assess what they have learned in vocabulary lessons as well as to focus on using the classroom management techniques that are already in place.
For this lesson I focused on reading, specifically on new vocabulary as I introduced the story to the students. Using the text, Nicky and the Rainy Day, I taught the students to words impossible, cliff, and boring. Utilizing a technique that I learned about in my Children's Literature course, I started the lesson with a quick book talk where I tried to get the students excited about the text. Instantly they were engaged, they could not wait to read this book! It worked! I addressed the vocabulary they would encounter in the text and taught the definitions using corresponding hand motions/ASL. The students then taught each other the definitions and then we read the book. The students would stop when they heard the vocabulary words and recite the definitions. I stopped and asked the students HOT questions and (because I can't pass up an opportunity to practice inferencing skills) asked them at various points to share what they thought would happen next. Then the students returned to their seats and got out their reader response journals and defined the three words either using words or an illustration.
I love teaching vocabulary to students, my background both as a kinesthetic learner and a lover of ASL helps me to think of creative ways to incorporate both into a lesson whenever I can. The students' usually respond positively. After teaching this lesson, my goals are to come up with creative ways to assess what they have learned in vocabulary lessons as well as to focus on using the classroom management techniques that are already in place.
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