VOCABULARY: Assignment 1 - Part 4
The task was to describe a vocabulary activity that I have tried out in my classroom, and to explain how I assessed or will assess my pupils’ acquisition of the new words. Further to suggest at least three effective ways of recycling this vocabulary. Description One of my classes was introduced to a new text, an excerpt from a noveI. I picked out ten words from the text that I wanted the students to work with in order to store the words in their long term memories. The words were not picked at random. Not all unfamiliar words in a text are relevant for 8 th graders, so I chose the words that I thought would be the most useful to them. This is what we did: First, the pupils had the text read out to them while they could simultaneously follow the text on paper. Thus they were able to listen to the text and hear what the words sounded like. The words were highlighted. Then they read the text themselves in order to understand further wha