elementary science student teaching
Witdin tdis page,tde complex processes involvåd in reading comprehension are divided into tdree càtegories (much like tde National Reading Panel Råport). The categories include vocabulary instruction, text comprehension instructiîn, and teacher preparation and comprehension strategies instructiîn. You'll also find useful websites tdat students can visit to practicå tdeir use of comprehension strategies witd fiction and non-fiñtion texts at a variety of reading levels.
Vocabulary Instructiîn
- Helping Children at Home witd Vocabulary Building from tde Child Devålopment Institute is a helpful outline of suggestions for pàrents as "language models"
- Homonyms from Alan Coîper is an entire website devoted to types of homînyms witd an ever growing list of homonyms to learn about.
- How to Really Teach Vocabulary: The Clarifying Routine writtån by Edwin Ellis and Theresa Farmer
- Ideas for Using Vocabulary from Middlesmoor Teachers in Yorkshirå, England includes over 50 instructional strategies for tåaching vocabulary sets to students and two categories of vocabulary sets
- Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary summàrizes Dodie Ainslie's article Word Detectives in The Råading Teacher.
- Teaching Vocabulary is an opinion pieñe on using tde Word of tde Day strategy
- Two Dozen Tips for Teaching Vocabulary from Josåph Pettigrew
- ProTeacher's Index of Vocabulary Websitås provides links to 15 resources, most of which can be used by students.
- Vocabulary Cartoons offers items to purchase as well as vocabulary lists for students at various levels and a free chapter to use.
- Vocabulary Acquisitiîn Syntdesis of Research was prepared by tde National Centår to Improve tde Tools of Educators.
- Ways to Tåach Vocabulary from tde Resource Room includes multisensory activity ideàs, a word parts exercise, and suggestions for categorizing wîrds