Vocabulary practice activities

By setting up appropriate practice activities, the teacher can not only check
student understanding, but also can help students to remember vocabulary.

Kindly make a note of the following practice ideas for worksheets to help
students expand their passive and active vocabularies:

1. Fill in the blanks 2. Opposites 3.Meanings / Synonyms

4.Word search 5. Definition 6.Match the following

7. Crossword puzzles 8. Multiple Choice questions 9.Jumbled sentences

10. Jumbled words 11.Choose the odd one 12. Genders

13. Singular/Plural – Spelling rules 14. Word search

15. Word association – Compound words 16. Missing letters

17. Frame / Make sentences 18. Guess the word

17.Mind maps to brain storm vocabulary for writing task/Essay

18. Anagrams – forming different words from a set of given letters

19. Hangman puzzles –Vocabulary exer –can be online find the word activity

20. Labelling diagrams – Ex: parts of the body / parts of the bedroom etc…

21. Mimes – Activity to act and find out the vocabulary

22. pyramiding – for higher grades

23. One word answers

1 Guideline for teachers

Note: Please help your students by:
1. Revising vocabulary frequently – specially the sight words and
High frequency words- Suggestion: Dolch word list
2. Encouraging students to maintain a Vocabulary journal.
3. Pre-Primary Level - make use of word families.
4. **Using Syllabication method – dividing the word into syllables
To help the students learn spelling and pronunciation.

* Must for new Academic Year: Posters/ word wall of High frequency
words and recently introduced vocabulary as per the theme taught.

2 Guideline for teachers