Working on vocabulary skills we need to be relevant and create interesting activities. Consider using the following ideas with older students.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Reader’s Digest Word Power –\u00a0 It gives you the word, choices of meaning and then the correct meaning on the next page.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Text books – Create multiple possible meanings (like Reader’s Digest) and challenge classmates to answer.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Newspaper and magazine articles with special interest to the students: sports,\u00a0 music, the arts, movies and celebrity news – Create a lexicon of commonly used words\/jargon and attempt to define them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Working on vocabulary skills we need to be relevant and create interesting activities. Consider using the following ideas with older students. 1.\u00a0 Reader’s Digest Word Power –\u00a0 It gives you the word, choices of meaning and then the correct meaning on the next page. 2.\u00a0 Text books – Create multiple possible meanings (like Reader’s Digest)\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subject-matter-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}