Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary (Pro)

5 MODULES

2 HOURS

This course will teach you how to use key strategies to help your students acquire new vocabulary, and will provide you with many free resources that you can use right away in your classroom. These strategies and resources will work well for Multilingual Language Learners (MLLs) and ALL students who are learning academic vocabulary. This pro version of the Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary course does not include the Spark+ individualized coaching component and is perfect for those who don't need that extra layer of support as they move through the course material on their own.

Course Overview

Introduction to "Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary"
Why Focus on Vocabulary?
What is Vocabulary?
Assignment 1: What is Vocabulary?

Types of Vocabulary
Survival Vocabulary Resources
Assignment 2: Social and Academic Language Development

No Tech and Low-Tech Games
Online Games for Vocabulary
Assignment 3: Vocabulary Games

Teaching Morphology
Using Cognates
Word Sorts
Dual-Language Diagrams
Multilingual Personal Dictionaries and Vocab Charts
Interactive Word Displays
Big Idea Texts
Picture Word Induction Model (PWIM)
Frayer Model
Language Experience Approach
Total Physical Response
Cloze Texts with Multilingual Visual Support
Using GIFs to teach vocabulary
Assignment 4: Academic Vocabulary Instruction

Summary Video
Course Evaluation
Certificate of Completion
What's Next?

Meet the course producers

Highlights:

Types of vocabulary

High utility academic vocabulary

Survival vocabulary

Vocabulary games

Morphology

Multilingual diagrams, dictionaries, and charts

Interactive word displays

GIFs

Cognates

Word Sorts

Cloze Texts

Frayer Model

Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM)

Language Experience Approach (LEA)

Total Physical Response (TPR)

Multilingual Big Idea Texts with Roshi AI

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