Incidental learning of vocabulary is an incredible and often overlooked way of integrating new words into the classroom! The teacher's job is to begin with words that a student is already familiar with and uses on a daily basis. For instance the daily classroom weather reporter can become the meteorologist. The student in charge of feeding classroom pets becomes the zookeeper and then later on becomes referred to as the animal nutritional specialist. This is such a wonderful idea and too often vocabulary is a forced classwork and homework assignment when it could be learned incidentally. Educators can also use exciting new technology based approaches to teach vocabulary to students.
1. Wordle
www.wordle.com
2. Wordsift
www.wordsift.com
3. Trackstar
www.trackstar.4teachers.org
4.
vocabulary.co.il.com
The following video talks about active and generative tasks so that vocabulary is comprehended not just memorized.
http://youtu.be/OetbzrP2QUU
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