Looking for ways to teach academic vocabulary to your regular and ELL students? Check out Edutopia's article "8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Language." Here's a sneak peak at one of the strategies:
VocabAhead is a wonderful resource that could easily be used in conjunction with the strategies shared to BISD in our Vocabulary Magic training with Joanne Billingsley!
5. Dynamically Introduce Academic Vocabulary
Repeated encounters with a word in various authentic contexts can help students internalize the definition. They also benefit when teachers make their first encounters with vocabulary sticky. Use the word in a funny or personal story. Show a short video from VocabAhead that features 300 SAT words and categorizes vocabulary by grade level.
VocabAhead is a wonderful resource that could easily be used in conjunction with the strategies shared to BISD in our Vocabulary Magic training with Joanne Billingsley!
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