Using New Vocabulary
Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, being read to, and responding to texts in own speech and writing
Teaching approaches
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This conversation introduces a new word that helps us communicate a precise meaning. Today our word is enormous. Enormous means extremely large. “The enormous whale was longer than the boat” fits the meaning. “The tiny ant was smaller than my fingernail, so it was enormous” does not fit because the ant is described as tiny. We will use enormous appropriately in two different contexts, once aloud and once in a recorded written response.
Spend 10–12 minutes learning enormous from the parent’s example conversation, checking its meaning against a fitting example and a non-example, then using it appropriately in two different contexts: a spoken sentence and a written sentence or sentence-frame response.
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- Incorporate new vocabulary from read-alouds into conversations
- Attempt to use interesting or topic-specific words in own writing
- Use newly learned words appropriately in different contexts
“When your child learns a new word from a book or conversation, do they try to use it themselves — in their writing or when they're talking?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Language
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Vocabulary
- Age range
- Ages 5–9
Standards