Looking for a quick and easy way to include vocabulary instruction in your curriculum?
These three steps will help you save prep and classroom time, differentiate instruction, and create a vocabulary learning experience students say is addictive and fun.
Here's how to get started:
1. Select a Vocabulary List to accompany a text you're teaching. (Search our database of over 10,000 lists or watch this short video to learn how to create your own list.)
2. Introduce students to gold-punch.com. They'll need to create a login, start learning a list, and understand how to get back to list learning when they login again at home.
3. Assign list learning as homework and assess student progress with a weekly quiz. For extra credit, have students focus on the words they're most struggling to learn with word journals, word walls, and pictograms. Read more about project-based vocabulary learning here.
Want to go deeper? Read about teachers Marc Ginsberg from Athens, GA and Deborah Ryles from San Diego, CA, who are using gold-punch.com to improve vocabulary instruction in their classrooms. Or check out the following helpful blog posts.
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- Ten Characteristics of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
- A Teacher Shares Vocab Tools for the Common Core
- Teachers Share Vocab Strategies on #engchat
- Beyond Word Walls: Project-Based Vocabulary Learning
- It's Easy to Differentiate Instruction With gold-punch.com
- Do I Know You? Word Knowledge Limbo