The following information will guide you through weekly lesson delivery. It begins with how to deliver the word instruction using the teacher script and the Either/Or Slides that you will display to students. Following the description of lesson delivery, there is a video of lesson instruction in Kindergarten.
Here you find PDF documents of word wall images. Print them and find a dedicated space to create a vocabulary word wall in your classroom.
Thursdays and Fridays are dedicated to word review. Word image cards are here for you to print. Each one page of image cards includes three weeks of words that you have taught. Follow the preparation instruction above to learn an efficient way to print and store these cards for your students. Students from Kindergarten to High School never tire of Bingo and Go Fish-Believe me!
You read the lesson script while displaying the Either/Or slides in your classroom. It might be easier to open this on your phone or tablet while the computer displays the slides for the students. This section includes the script for all 30 lessons.
As Kindergarten students are learning to read, the Either/Or step has visuals. Display these slides in class while you read the script above. This section includes slides for all 30 lessons.
Review, Review, Review. Brain science informs us that retrieval practice is the key to send information from short term to long term memory. This section includes instructions for review games using the word image cards above. Also, easy review strategies and review game videos of kids is included here.
As Dr. Manyak and I tested the efficacy of this instruction in Kindergarten. Here you will find the test we used to test one on one. You can adapt it to provide the whole class using Plickers. Or give to individual students as it was designed. The test is based on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test. It features 4 images on a page and as you say the target word (on the scoring sheet), a student points or circles the picture that they think defines the word. You check all words the student gets correct in the first column for the pre-test and after teaching all the words, test the students again checking the second column and see how they grow in word knowledge!