This document outlines effective strategies for teaching vocabulary to students. It recommends having students link new terms to their own life experiences to help retain meanings. It also suggests having students paraphrase terms in their own words for better understanding. Differentiation techniques are important, such as maintaining high expectations while allowing varying levels of support through examples, practice time, and repetition. Making connections to students' real-life situations helps ESOL and ESE learners. Interview strategies like knowledge rating guides, vocabulary webs, and word substitution activities provide ways to assess and expand students' vocabularies.

1. Effective Strategies for Vocabulary InstructionBy Lindsay Spann, Jacyln Clark, Vivianne Creary, and Lascelia Dacres

2. VocabularyAll the words used known and used by a person (Wikipedia)

3. The set of words a person is familiar with in a language.

4. Usually grows and evolves with age

5. Useful tool in communicating and acquiring knowledge.Effective Practices of Vocabulary InstructionHave students link terms with life experiences so that they are more likely to retain the meanings.

6. Have students paraphrase terms in their own words so they have a better understanding.

7. Allow students to come up with similes and metaphorsDifferentiation of VocabularyCreate classrooms that maintain high student expectations

8. Use activities and products based on students’ readiness and interests.

9. Use “weapons of mass instruction”-a variety of research-based strategies for vocabulary-teaching arsenals.Differentiation of Vocabulary Continued…Allow more examples and more time for guided practice and independent work

10. Allow multiple opportunities for students to encounter the term and use while communicating

11. Vary the intensity of the word -Ex: multiple meanings, different pronunciations, etc.

12. Connections to ESOL and ESE StudentConnections with real-life situations

13. More time spent on teaching it in detail