How to Teach

Vocabulary
 Tips of Teaching:

– Presenting new words

– Helping remember new words
– Making sure that the new words spelling their own
 Presenting new words
• Using visual images
• Using gestures and actions
• Words in context
• Showing lexical relations
 Using visual images
• Generating an image while reading requires that the
reader be actively engaged with the text.
•Creating mental images while reading can improve
comprehension.
PowerPoint presentations, pictures projected onto a
screen, story maps, diagram, chart, graphic
organizers, highlighters, color-coding
 Using gestures and actions
The use of gestures helps to make vocabulary and
content concepts more comprehensible for English
learners by making the abstract more concrete.
Through a simple movement that mimics the
content concept or meaning of the word, it becomes
easier for the students to understand and internalize
content and vocabulary.
Ex: mime, gesture, facial expression,
action
 Showing lexical relations
Collocations refer to words that co-occur with high
frequency and have been accepted as ways for the use
of words.
Synonym, antonym. Synonyms refer to items that
mean the same, or nearly the same. Antonyms refer to
items that mean the opposites of a word.
 Words in context
• dialogues
• role play
• drama
• stories
• songs
• rhymes & poems
• videos
 Helping remember new words

• Using memorizing games & activities

• Learning with friends
• Using review games
Using memorizing games and activities

• giving directions
• picture dictation
• matching words
• labeling words
• searching words
• sequencing words
• guessing words
• eliminating words
• classifying words
 Using review games
• wordsearch games
• picture labeling
• crosswords
• Bingo
• dominoes
• puzzles
• charts or survey for their peers
 Learning with friends
• practice words with a classmate or in a
group
• teach a word to a member of the family or
peer
• make and play word game with friends
• peer test
 Making sure that the new words spelling their
own
• Vocabulary record system (vocabulary books,
personal dictionary)
• Personalizing the new words (Keeping a diary,
Creative writing by using newly-learned words
or phrases, looking for recently learned words
in storybooks, the Internet, the newspapers,
etc.,)