Pre-teaching Vocabulary
Before getting started on a new lesson or activity it is important that the students are able to understand some new words or ideas that will be presented before it starts. A concept that addresses this is pre-teaching vocabulary. Pre-teaching vocabulary helps students to gain awareness and understanding of unfamiliar words or words that may have a different meaning in the text than they were previously aware of. In research it is suggested that the strategy of pre-teaching vocabulary can greatly improve comprehension of text.
1. Select words from the lesson that you think the students may not know or understand.
2. List the words on the board.
3. One by one go through the words having the students raise their hands and give their best guess of the word's definition.
4. Give the correct definition of the word.
5. Check the students understanding of the word with discussion asking for examples.
6. Playing a game with the words will also help with learning and understanding the word, and also make it fun!
Watching the video below to get a better idea of pre-teaching vocabulary words
1. Select words from the lesson that you think the students may not know or understand.
2. List the words on the board.
3. One by one go through the words having the students raise their hands and give their best guess of the word's definition.
4. Give the correct definition of the word.
5. Check the students understanding of the word with discussion asking for examples.
6. Playing a game with the words will also help with learning and understanding the word, and also make it fun!
Watching the video below to get a better idea of pre-teaching vocabulary words
Resources used to create this page:
http://www.cambridge.org/servlet/file/Teaching+Tips_Read_02.pdf?ITEM_ENT_ID=7359880&ITEM_VERSION=1&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=7
http://colorincolorado.org/educators/teaching/vocabulary
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/vocabulary-instruction-teaching-tips-rebecca-alber
http://k12reader.com/effective-strategies-for-teaching-vocabulary/
Miller, M., & Veatch, N. (2011). Literacy in context (LinC): choosing
instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students grades
5-12. Boston: Pearson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJHZ8tlbZ_Y
http://www.cambridge.org/servlet/file/Teaching+Tips_Read_02.pdf?ITEM_ENT_ID=7359880&ITEM_VERSION=1&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=7
http://colorincolorado.org/educators/teaching/vocabulary
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/vocabulary-instruction-teaching-tips-rebecca-alber
http://k12reader.com/effective-strategies-for-teaching-vocabulary/
Miller, M., & Veatch, N. (2011). Literacy in context (LinC): choosing
instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students grades
5-12. Boston: Pearson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJHZ8tlbZ_Y