What is a strategy that makes up situations that introduce a word and provide contextual clues to its meaning.
"Lethargic"
100
Labeling
This strategy provides greater depth of meaning to words by offering at least 2nd hand experience. It helps illustrate relationships using diagrams and name parts.
100
Graphic Organizer
It allows students to view and construct relationships among words.
100
Dramatizing
Putting words in the context of a skit
100
Verbal and Visual Word Association
Draw a square with 4 boxes
200
Determining Shades of Meaning
Semantic gradients/differentials that help students differentiate definitions of words
200
Feature Comparison
Through questions that contain 2 newly learned words students can compare major meanings.
Example: "Can a miser be a philanthropist"
200
Etymology
Word Origin
200
Morphemic Analysis
It is a process by which readers can determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word by analyzing the parts of the word.
200
TOAST
What does TOAST stand for?
300
Enjoying Words
Having fun with words...puns, limericks, and jokes
300
Predict-0-gram
Mainly used in fictional stories that address characters, setting, plot, etc.
300
External References
Sources outside the text such as a dictionary
300
Contextual Redefinition
Strategy that introduces new vocabulary in rich contexts that help define words and facilitate memory by giving the words' meaning
300
Analogies
Example: Night is to day...Big is to small.
400
Sesquipedalian Words
Really long words...literally means "a foot and a half"
400
Story Impressions
Uses vocabulary from a story to activate students to build world knowledge.
E.g. It can be built like a pyramid
400
Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
Vocabulary Acquisition technique designed to teach students how to choose the most important vocabulary from the reading assignment
400
Personal Glossary
Student dictionary
400
Hidden Word Puzzle
Computer-generated activity that gives clues to hidden words that are not seen
500
Word of the Day
Word that might tie in to the day, time of year, special local or national event
500
Word Experts
Students are assigned 2 new words to locate in reading selection, copy sentences, and quiz students.
500
Clues and Questions
Each student asks for ideas about the word and tries to guess the word
500
Word Map
Visual representation of a definition---3 categories: general class, primary properties, example