Search results for 'tag:Prefixes tag:Vocabulary' matching tags 'Prefixes' and 'Vocabulary'

Re: grammar/vocabulary

Clive — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:08:00 GMT

Hi,

Could you please check my reflection for grammar and vocabulary mistakes?

For a number of months I have been studying word families. In addition to this, I have also been dissecting words for prefixes, suffixes, consonant blends and digraphs, as well as vowel diphthongs. In order for me to have the ownership of my learning, no list of spelling words is provided weekly by my teacher. My active participation in my learning consists of generating a list of words that belongs to the word family I am studying. Words for my spelling quiz are chosen randomly from my lists. I think that this approach to spelling makes me think and therefore helps me remember better. Also, I notice/have noticed that when I am reading I utilize my spelling strategies to decode words.
Thank you
Knjiga

This is excellent writing.

Try to avoid starting a sentence with 'also'.

Best wishes, Clive

grammar/vocabulary

knjiga — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:57:23 GMT

Could you please check my reflection for grammar and vocabulary mistakes?

For a number of months I have been studying word families. In addition to this, I have also been dissecting words for prefixes, suffixes, consonant blends and digraphs, as well as vowel diphthongs. In order for me to have the ownership of my learning, no list of spelling words is provided weekly by my teacher. My active participation in my learning consists of generating a list of words that belongs to the word family I am studying. Words for my spelling quiz are chosen randomly from my lists. I think that this approach to spelling makes me think and therefore helps me remember better. Also I noticed that when I am reading I utilize my spelling strategies to decode words.
Thank you
Knjiga

Re: How To Teach Vocabulary

Titithi — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:07:36 GMT

I think before teaching vocabulary, we need to choose active and passive vocabulary. For passive words, we only realize and don't spend a lot of time to explain them. Students will research themselves by looking up in the dictionary or guessing from the context. Thus, we have to define which word as a passive or active vocabulary to teach.
For active words, we should save time by choosing the real active words which are needed to teach. By eliciting or brainstorming, we will find out which words are really new words and which words are needed to review. Sometimes ,we have to ask directly our students which words they don't know.The best way to teach active words is setting up the context (as Mr Joe has mentioned) by realia, real object, real story, pictures, visual aids, mapped- dialogue etc...Translation is obviously one way round the problem of difficult concept ,however it's not good for grasping the meaning. A suitable mother tongue equivalent is not always available.
Besides,we can use synonym, a quick and efficient way of explaining unknown words. With simple English, we explain new words by antonym and words family including suffixe and prefixe.Gestures and mimic play an important role when conveying new words. To understand a new word fully, a student must know not only what it refers to but also where their boundaries are separate.In other words, the affective meaning of an item can vary according to the context and speaker.The meaning of a word can only be understood in terms of its relationship with other words in the language.This is why translation is the brief way of explanation and necessary in some situation but it's not suitable to target the language.

Prefix, suffix and roots

admkush1 — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:59:48 GMT

Hi folks. I was teaching a lesson on vocabulary and decided to teach prefixes, suffixes and roots (eg Latin and Greek).

I am not sure how you differentiate between, for example, a prefix and a root. It seems that "hydro" is a root but "geo" is not. "Bio" maybe a root or a prefix?????? Is it that a root can change spelling in an 'English' word? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks,

Kush