Monday, July 20, 2009

Topic: Increasing Students' Vocabularies

10-second review: How increase students’ vocabularies? Expand on words; come up with words related in some way to the target word. Example: apostatized—abandon an organization or cause. Other, related words: ostracize, emigrate, secede, blackball, blacklist, boycott, exile, banish, deport, expel, expatriate, shun, etc.


Source: Suggested by C Washburne, “Short Papers on Readiness, Reading Interests, Vocabulary Development, and Comprehension.” [No Source or Date] 533-551.

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