Learning Vocabulary Words

Strategy Prompt Cards

Vocabulary Building – Strategy Prompt Cards

Vocabulary Building Strategies:

These 3 cards are part of a collection designed to enhance vocabulary development

Vocabulary Building – Strategy Cards

Card 1 – Spread your fingers and quickly scan down the words on this page. Which words would you like clarification on?

The leader explains each word orally, with no recording, then casually reminds the students of the word’s meaning when it is encountered in context.

Vocabulary Building – Strategy Cards

Card 2 – Which words do you think might result in us not fully gaining the author’s intention if we don’t know their correct meaning?

Delegate the words to be clarified to members of the group. Allow a few minutes to use dictionaries to research the words. Write the formal meanings onto a large sheet of paper & discuss the new words in context when the group arrives at them.

Vocabulary Building – Strategy Cards

Card 3 – Choose 5 words that you think the group would benefit from having a better understanding of.

Add these words to a vocabulary list & define them. Revisit definitions when they are encountered in the text.