During today's session the focus for me has been to look for areas missing in how I handle gifting language to learners. The basic takeaways from this session were to focus my attention to the Key Approaches to Explicit Vocabulary Instruction:
1. Building Word Consciousness - Interest and awareness (FUN!) of words.
2. Deliberate, robust interactive teaching of words.
3. Skills for cracking unfamiliar words.
4. Morphology.
I'll be using the resource bank for morphology in particular for my taskboard activities next term. Setting up a Word Knowledge Organiser will surely help my kids with reflecting on their learning, especially in fear of being "outed". I don't like being reminded of what I don't know and neither do they.
