I’m working on Expand Vocabulary!
My strategy is Use Pictures, Illustrations, and Diagrams
Secret to Success
Readers increase their vocabulary by paying attention to pictures, illustrations, and diagrams. They use the context of the story, their background knowledge of what is being read, and at times infer to gain meaning of the word and text.
Secret: Cross checking: do the pictures match what I think the word means, and does it make sense?
What you can say or model
Things you can do:
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser
My strategy is Use Pictures, Illustrations, and Diagrams
Secret to Success
Readers increase their vocabulary by paying attention to pictures, illustrations, and diagrams. They use the context of the story, their background knowledge of what is being read, and at times infer to gain meaning of the word and text.
Secret: Cross checking: do the pictures match what I think the word means, and does it make sense?
What you can say or model
Things you can do:
- Read a picture book or non fiction book.
- When you come to a word you don’t know, stop.
- State the strategy you will use by telling students, “I am going to look at this picture to see if I can figure out what this word means.”
- Infer meaning based on background knowledge of text and what is represented in the picture.
- Write the word on a word collector, or celebrate figuring out the word, which helped the understanding of the text.
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser