Part 1 Number 1 2002 - Lete's Dream
What words would you be noticing and why?
swirled fale slipped feeling surprise warmth dream joy
Categorise them
Feelings - surprise, warmth, dream, joy
Describing/adjectives - slipped, swirled, opals
Cultural words - fale, coconut milk, islands, Pacific, frigate bird, Lete
Began to talk about how we would construct a glossary as we go. Then began a discussion around getting on with reading e.g. reading recovery teacher approach versus schema building as being vital for understanding.
So back to the vocabulary - how we grouped words - discussion around the group
Fiona - cultural words
Rachel - the grouping of words - return to her island home, long to return
Gaylene - talked about the repetitive image of colours blue, the colour of opals
Strong verbs can lift a piece of writing from level 1 to level 2. Logical paragraphs can lift a level 2 piece of writing to level 3.
Book - Learning in the Fast Lane, 8 Ways to put all students on the road to Academic Success. Suzy Pepper Rollins (Great chapter in Vocabulary)
Looked at pronouns, possession, time connectives.
What should we do to teach Vocabulary?
Looked at images and discussed.
Lucy and I though - Matariki images shows the English meaning of a Maori word on a feather. Great because it's visual. One thought was it would be improved by having an image (rather than a feather) that matched the meaning.
Other ideas - jump on the word (floor), picture and brainstorm/word web coming out of the image, reading vocabulary colour level words, other ways to say said, word cline - shades of meaning, concept circle with topic words in a box - use words in a sentence
Some ideas just look messy and busy. Makes us ask if children would know where to look.
Need to construct vocabulary with children and then finds a way to ensure children have access to the vocabulary.
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