This was my favourite session by far! Vocabulary development is a hurdle I am faced with every year. Like many of us I find the words our learners use in class never seem to appear in writing samples, and the vocabulary in PAT assessments are the catalyst to the lower scores that simply do not reflect the ability shown in the room. I am really excited to introduce the ideas below to my students as I hope this helps them make stronger connections to a wider variety of words they can recall and use independently.
Presenter: Gabriel Carillo
Session Description: Learn five vocabulary retention strategies that go deeper than just "understanding." Participants will go through these interactive and engaging strategies as a student to have the student experience. They will then create their own activities and learn how to best utilize them with students.
Great American Race/Marathon - Slides 4-12
Create eg: 40 blank slides - Students must have edit access
Give our cards… If you have card 1 go to slide 1 - each card has a word on the front and a number on the back
Go to numbered slide and describe in own words
Can find an image but can not use the word on your card
Can research/define
Give a short time limit
Remove edit access to stop anyone adding things after times up
IEP students do not get the more challenging words
Class then guess words from the clues
Go through as a class
T to edit and add to word bank - this can be topic based
25,000 - 25K Pyramid - Slides 12-15
Find a partner - one is A and one is B
A look at screen
B face back wall
Give clues for partner to guess words in pyramid - can’t say the words but can give clues
You have 1 minute to guess all the words
Repeat throughout units using different words
Flashcard Factory - Slides 15-17
- joinpd.com - takes you to pear deck - generates a code to enter - free site
- Puts chn into partners
- Ptnr A gets the term and definition - must write in a sentence
- Ptnr B must draw it
You collaborate online to complete the card and it falls from the list
‘Quality control’ to share with class - review and decide if sentence makes sense then tick yes or no
Cards are anonymous
Ship - export to Gimkit Live - creates a quiz using flashcard set
Peardeck - flashcard factory - word: Democracy click on definitions in dictionary.com, or chatGPT - out words and definitions in a google sheet - copy word list/definitions and paste in peardeck
Emoji Vocabulary - Slides 18-35
Guess the word based only on the clues provided by the emojis
Emoji + emoji + emoji + emoji + emoji (chicken + fries + ham + cheese = chicken cordon bleu)
Based off these emojis what moment in history, what maths, what…
Climb a Mountain - Slides 36
Free feature - like quizziz, kahoot
Students asked a question or given a definition.
They have 3-4 options to choose from
Students enter their response at speed
When the time allocated is up the avatars of those who responded quickly jump and begin the climb the mountain
Can pull up a report
Click time to climb
Teacher to put in terms and definitions
Will need to copy and paste can’t import
Focus on key concepts and vocab terms not the vanity of the tools
Be creative as activities can be mixed and differentiated
The tech tool is not the centre of the activity, the interaction is
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