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| Title | Vocabulary Input Ideas |
| Body | Editor's note: A recent query on the AATG listserv for vocabulary instruction ideas received the following suggestions. These come from teachers of German but could be used for any language. ----- I would break down the vocab words into a group of 8-10 words, introduce the words using as little English as possible (acting them out, drawing pictures, giving syn. or antonyms in German). Then use those words in a goofy/school friendly story. If you can include some of your 8th graders as characters in the story...they will like it even better. Do one story/day, and your kids will have the vocab. in 4 days. This is a quasi TPRS method and goes like this: 1. Write out a vocab list with all 32 words. 2. Go over 8 or so at a time, using suggestions above. 3. Write 4 stories to go with the vocab. and hand out to students. 4. Read one story to the kids, asking all kinds of questions about each sentence. 5. Have kids read/translate what was just read, to assure they understand meaning. 6. Ask specific questions about the story. 7. Ask application questions, that are specific to the students, not the story. Wie findest du das Wette heute? Sometimes I'll write 3 or 4 stories, leaving the story open-ended, and the students have to write the conclusion. Sometimes I will have them write a 4 picture comic which summarizes a particular story. Sometimes they will do comics for all 3 or 4 stories. This works with all levels. Mol, D. Re: [AATG-L] introducing new vocabulary. American Association of Teachers of German listserv. AATG@listserv.iupui.edu (31 Jan. 2005). ----- For clothes I've done both a matching game (kids in pairs try to match pictures to words on cards; I walked around as they worked and gave them back the ones that didn't match) and a magazine scavenger hunt (list of clothing and adj. eine blaue Bluse and the kids dug through dictionary/textbook and old magazines to try to find the most in 20 minutes. Lots of repeats of vocab they needed to know. This gave no listening comprehension on the new words, but was fun for them, easy for me--the scavenger hunt took ten minutes to type and run copies of the list--and different.) You could also give each kid 3-5 words, have them look them up (check!) and make a good 8 x 11 flash card of it, then introduce them to the class. Holzer, J. Re: [AATG-L] introducing new vocabulary. American Association of Teachers of German listserv. AATG@listserv.iupui.edu (31 Jan. 2005). |
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