As a kid you might have been taught to flip through a dictionary and look up words and write down their meanings. Although dictionary skills are still important, there are better ways to teach vocabulary…
Understanding the different types of context clues helps kids when figuring out the meanings of unknown words. The best way I have found to teach the different types of context clues is to use an…
You have a small group of kids that are having trouble with multi-syllable words. You need to help them but need activities are at a loss for what to do. Does this sound familiar? How…
A few years ago I gave an assessment and was surprised at one of the questions about prefixes and suffixes. It asked the students what a word meant when the suffix -ly was added to…
Teaching kids context clues is an important part of vocabulary instruction. Kids need to be taught how to figure out unknown words in their independent reading books. It increases their word knowledge which then increases…
Do you need a strategy to help kids with decoding multisyllabic words? Spot and Dot is a strategy for helping kids break apart multisyllabic words. In order for kids to be successful, they need to…
Vocabulary Development You don’t need a lot of time to teach vocabulary in context. Vocabulary is so important for reading comprehension. Have you ever read a manual and had to analyze it in order to…
Do you love playing classroom vocabulary games with your students? I LOVE it! I love using games to review our vocabulary words. Games are a great way to help with vocabulary development. Here are three…
Are your students needing reading intervention activities for reading multisyllabic words? It can be difficult if they don’t have the strategies to take apart a word. When kids are in the earlier grades, they start…