Hearing about this strategy made so much sense to me because it's the way that I learned a lot of my vocabulary and it's how I'm teaching my daughter words. I do a lot of explicit instruction of vocabulary when it comes to articles and texts, but I love that this episode talks about the importance of vocabulary through speech as well.
Hearing this conversation inspired me to try to substitute for more interesting words in my conversations with students during downtime during the school day (I'm thinking specifically of all of the wonderful words that mean the same as "confused" like befuddled and perplexed).
Additionally, I have a classroom routine on Tuesdays where students practice speaking in expanded, complex, and compound sentences about an image. Students have to be able to speak with a lot of detail on our English exam, the NYSESLAT. I always scribe the students' oral sentences and we check them out to see which type of sentence they are and why. However, I think that if I provided my own sentence afterwards, it could be another way to show additional vocabulary that the students did not come up with on their own.
I love the simplicity of this strategy and it got the gears going in my brain as to the ways that I can incorporate it.
Hearing this conversation inspired me to try to substitute for more interesting words in my conversations with students during downtime during the school day (I'm thinking specifically of all of the wonderful words that mean the same as "confused" like befuddled and perplexed).
Additionally, I have a classroom routine on Tuesdays where students practice speaking in expanded, complex, and compound sentences about an image. Students have to be able to speak with a lot of detail on our English exam, the NYSESLAT. I always scribe the students' oral sentences and we check them out to see which type of sentence they are and why. However, I think that if I provided my own sentence afterwards, it could be another way to show additional vocabulary that the students did not come up with on their own.
I love the simplicity of this strategy and it got the gears going in my brain as to the ways that I can incorporate it.