A sampling of the vocabulary-focused strategies and tools include:
Using daily read alouds and think alouds during shared reading to gather powerful language from literature
Organizing literature circles with one student serving as the word hunter”
Engaging in whole class and small group lively games such as gift of words bingo and ricochet
Using mentor texts as models for writing class books
Appointing all students to be word catchers” and word coaches” for each other
Establishing a classroom community where it is considered normal to ask about word meanings and experimenting with language
Collecting and displaying words in the Bank of Powerful Language”
Offering rubrics for word learning assessment
In addition, the authors offer lively ways to enhance word consciousness by linking reading and writing through step-by-step units on poetry, memoir, stories, and research writing. For use with Grades 4-8.
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Bonnie J. Skobel is an adjunct faculty associate at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada and a veteran classroom teacher-researcher.
Jan Wells is an experienced classroom teacher of thirty-five years, teacher educator, curriculum consultant, and co-author of seven professional books, including Better Books, Better Readers and Writing Anchors. She has taught in England, as well as in two Canadian provinces, Ontario and British Columbia. She has been both Faculty Associate and Sessional Instructor at Simon Fraser University as well as the elementary literacy consultant for both the Vancouver and Toronto school boards.
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