2. Best Practice
• The teacher explicitly teaches vocabulary
specific to their subject or topic.
• The teacher will clearly display and verbalise in each class the lesson
focus.
• The Hook– Grab student attention. E.g. use visuals, props or something
related to students’ interests.
• Prior Knowledge (Getting Knowledge Ready – Munro) When beginning
a unit, or a lesson (where applicable) tie into what the students already
know. Use questioning techniques to draw out class, group or individual
knowledge.
• Review -At the end of the lesson the teacher should refer back to the
learning focus and have students reflect on what they have learnt.
3. Learning Focus:
We will be able to locate vocabulary resources and use
at least one strategy to explicitly teach vocabulary to a
class this week.
We will be able to locate vocabulary resources and use
at least one strategy to explicitly teach vocabulary to a
class this week.
Success Criteria
★I am able to locate resources which will assist me to
explicitly teach vocabulary
★I am able to explicitly teach vocabulary using at least
one of the strategies we discussed today.
6. • Do we sound like this sometimes to our
students?
• Think about the processes you used to try
to take meaning from film. e.g listening for
familiar words, trying to make connections
with your prior knowledge, close attention
to the visuals, working on you knowledge
of syntax, syllables ‘...nators’ etc.
7. Words are the cornerstones of learning. Words
provide concepts and deconstruct concepts.
Teaching vocabulary explicitly allows all students
to access and understand the fundamental ideas
in text.
Why teachVocabulary?
