Day 6 Vocabulary and Decoding

 I have always been interested in the acquisition of new vocabulary and how we, as teachers can enable students to access, practise and feel confident when using new words, in a fun and optimal way. Today was the day as I thoroughly enjoyed learning new skills and techniques and the meaning of 'structured literacy.' 

I like this visual activity that would be simple and easy for students to share and for us to focus on words that are new to them or they're unsure of. Will definitely be trying this out this week with our new reading about Matariki.

 It was great to have Word Walls validated as being of benefit to our students. I have always used them, as children refer back to them on numerous occasions through the year. These are pretty impressive:

Robust Learning Opportunities was a beneficial activity for me as it gave me good, simple and effective ideas to introduce and target new vocab with the children. I will try this activity this week too.

I was interested to learn about Morphology enabling students to 'crack unfamiliar words' focusing on prefixes, suffixes and base words. I really liked these Prefix Pockets that were visible in one of the classrooms and I think they would work well in my classroom. I love getting new ideas to share with the children.