One year I had a juggernaut of a word wall (how’s that for vocabulary?…haha!) Adding a word frequently involved standing on precariously stacked kid-sized furniture or trying to check if a word was straight from an awkward crouch with my head held sideways. Each day when I read my students a picture book, I…
Research and best practices for teaching vocabulary in the elementary classroom. I’m back this week linking up with #TeacherMom for her Building Back to School series. This week we’re talking about language tools. I’ve done some digging to see what research tells us about teaching vocabulary. Here’s what I found: A Strong Vocabulary Is…
Happy Monday! I dug back through some old pictures to find this synonym and antonym anchor chart for Anchors Away Monday with Crafting Connections: Synonym cinnamon bears (there’s a tongue-twister for ya!) and antonym ants. My students referred to this chart quite a bit.