Vocabulary and Read Alouds

Main points:
1. Vocabulary can be learned in creative, fun ways
2. Vocabulary is important because it allows understanding of text

In the Lane and Allen article we read several examples of teachers promoting stronger vocabulary in creative ways. In the first classroom we saw an example from beginning of school to mid school were their job titles changed from weather watcher and line leader to meteorologist and class movement coordinator. From an observer of the class, "Their comfort came from their teacher's careful approach to developing their vocabularies through modeling and meaningful practice." Some of the ideas in this reading were called circle time and morning meeting.


In the Dalton and Grisham article it shows a strategy for learning from visual displays of word relationships within text. The example the reading gives is to the right- the picture is in the shape of a bee and gives different words that categorize and describe bees.

The  Blachowicz and Fisher article states that reading comprehension and vocabulary are linked. To the left is a picture of a different kind of word wall, its called a Word a pillar. It is creative and encourages sentence building.

These activities in our readings are designed to maximize and teach students vocabulary.