Creating a word-rich classroom
Academic talk
Making connections and categorising
Regular reading with purpose and for pleasure
Word exploration and play
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"
Ways to develop a positive culture for reading...
Regular reading with purpose and for pleasure
Set reading challenges
Make reading sociable
Provide access
Create reading environments
Once your reading culture is in place, complement it with high-quality reading instruction with an emphasis on vocabulary development:
Word lists
Reading practice
Note taking
Dictionary use
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"
Academic talk
Teacher talk is one of the main sources of exposure to high quality vocablary. Model academic talk, and talk like an expert, using the appropriate tier 2 and 3 vocabulary. Though it may feel unnatural, craft your explanations carefully. Use written-style discourse markers, employ clear emphasis and contrast, order and link ideas, and use pre-selected vocabulary central to the learning objective. Once in place, the focus needs to shift onto promoting quality pupil talk. Take a look at some of these ideas...
Jigsaw reading
Just a minute
Twenty questions
Pupil explanations
ABC feedback
Waiting
Nudging
Let's talk about teacher talk...
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"
Making connections and categorising
Use graphic organisers to give structure to the sense-making process
Instead of just listing words, graphic organisers give us a framework for categorising and organising words.
The Frayer model
Venn diagrams
Word maps
Word ladders
Meaning lines
Prefix / suffix building
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"
word of the week
spelling bees
Word exploration and play
Stimulate curiosity with...
jokes and puns
online word games
play with prefixes and suffixes to create possible and impossible words
Nurture a culture of fascination with words
Highlight and unpick...*
collocations
catchphrases
anagrams
demonyms
euphemisms
eponyms
metaphors
oxymorons
idioms
portmanteaux
palindromes
proverbs
slogans
similies
pseudonyms
* Not sure on what some of these mean? Click on a tile to follow a link to Wikipedia.
toponyms
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"
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Creating a word-rich classroom
Academic talk
Making connections and categorising
Regular reading with purpose and for pleasure
Word exploration and play
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"
Ways to develop a positive culture for reading...
Regular reading with purpose and for pleasure
Set reading challenges
Make reading sociable
Provide access
Create reading environments
Once your reading culture is in place, complement it with high-quality reading instruction with an emphasis on vocabulary development:
Word lists
Reading practice
Note taking
Dictionary use
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"
Academic talk
Teacher talk is one of the main sources of exposure to high quality vocablary. Model academic talk, and talk like an expert, using the appropriate tier 2 and 3 vocabulary. Though it may feel unnatural, craft your explanations carefully. Use written-style discourse markers, employ clear emphasis and contrast, order and link ideas, and use pre-selected vocabulary central to the learning objective. Once in place, the focus needs to shift onto promoting quality pupil talk. Take a look at some of these ideas...
Jigsaw reading
Just a minute
Twenty questions
Pupil explanations
ABC feedback
Waiting
Nudging
Let's talk about teacher talk...
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"
Making connections and categorising
Use graphic organisers to give structure to the sense-making process
Instead of just listing words, graphic organisers give us a framework for categorising and organising words.
The Frayer model
Venn diagrams
Word maps
Word ladders
Meaning lines
Prefix / suffix building
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"
word of the week
spelling bees
Word exploration and play
Stimulate curiosity with...
jokes and puns
online word games
play with prefixes and suffixes to create possible and impossible words
Nurture a culture of fascination with words
Highlight and unpick...*
collocations
catchphrases
anagrams
demonyms
euphemisms
eponyms
metaphors
oxymorons
idioms
portmanteaux
palindromes
proverbs
slogans
similies
pseudonyms
* Not sure on what some of these mean? Click on a tile to follow a link to Wikipedia.
toponyms
Adapted from MTC's notes on Alex Quigley's book "Closing the Vocabulary Gap"