Listening and SpeakingActivities
Students watch a short video that includes the new vocabulary and discusses what they saw. Scaffolds are video clips, sentence stems, word banks ..etc
Video Clips
Students are asked to create them to support the understanding of the text by adding the word, the student-friendly definition, the image of the word ... etc.
Glossary
Play the memory to match the word, images, and definitions on the index cards as they talk to each other.
Memory
The teacher develops discussion questions with new vocabulary and assigns them to the pairs
Pair discussion questions
Gallery walk
Students have the vocabulary words on their back as they ask questions to their partners to figure out the word
What's my word
Student A has the new word, but student B has the definition. Student pairs exchange information to fill in the gaps as they use the new word.
Information Gap
Students are asked to respond to the question with the vocabulary word from the word bank
Responding to a content-related prompt using a word bank
Students in groups of 4 get a clue about the word such as antonym, parts of speech, definition, and they share out the clues to figure out the word
Vocab Jigsaw
Students in groups of 3 or 4 are given index cards with the vocabulary words, and make connection by placing the words next to each other in a sentence on a poster paper.
Interactive Word Wall
Students are expected to respond to the question about the text with a vocabulary word from the word bank. Support the student with sentence starters if needed.
Text-dependent question
Students write or glue their vocab words on bingo cardsThe teacher or a student reads the definition and the students put a marker on the bingo card as they see the word.
Vocabulary bingo
Students act out the new vocabulary words that are connected to each other. Ex: revolve, Student A revolves around Student B as if the Earth is revolving around the Sun.
Dramatic Representation
A deep study of the word in definition, characteristics, synonyms, antonyms examples, non-examples, and even the images
The Frayer Model or the Word Map
Students are given a clue and need to determine the correct word in a jeopardy game show based on examples, non-examples, antonyms... etc.
Vocab jeopardy