Vocabulary!

These readings made so much sense to me, and have been something I have reflected on and worried about doing in my own classrooms. The Lane & Allen reading about vocabulary in your classroom was interesting to me, especially the "affable Annie" example. I really loved that because it gave a challenging way for the children to find new vocabulary words, but it played completely off of their interests.  In a way it seemed very easy to incorporate that in my classroom.


The second reading that I chose to read is the Blachowicz and Fisher.  Something that I agreed with completely and needs to be emphasized more in classrooms is an environment that makes vocabulary within reading fun. Much like the affable Annie example, that made the classroom environment fun.  I think the word wall that children were able to write words on their own was a great idea too because it gives children a sense of ownership in their own work (finding new vocabulary words) and the ability to show off their work!


These two pictures are an example of a "word file" idea that I saw on Pinterest. You do one word a day and let the child write a sentence and depict the word and put it all together in a "word file". I love this idea for them to use after the whole year of school for the next grade!