Saturday, March 30, 2013
Winters Article - Noelle Reardon
I really liked the instructional strategy that was used to teach vocabulary words in the Winters article. The students were instructed to figure out the meaning of multisyllable words by identifying the morphemes. In school I was told to memorize the definition of a word and once the test was over the word was no longer incorporated into the classroom. After the test was over I very rarely remembered the word. The strategy used in the reading is great because the students have the ability to bread down a word on their own to figure out the meaning of it. When students are not taught this strategy they either skip over the word or they have to look it up. When you are talking to someone you can’t look up every word someone uses and knowing how to break up a word will allow you to figure out the meaning or general meaning of a word. This teaching strategy will much more likely help students later on, where a lot of other strategies teach students how to use words in sentences.
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A strategy similar to this takes place in my placement and it really helps students break apart words to figure out their meanings. I have to agree, that too often, if a word is unknown or without definition students will skip over it- therefore hindering the textual meaning. On the other hand, if students take time to figure out the meaning of a word it will become meaningful and something they hold onto throughout their lives rather than just until the test is over. My MT even does a word wall of all words learned throughout the year. That way, students can look back and recall them on a daily basis. Sometimes, they even use it as a reference to incorporate it into their writings which proves they are understanding the word definition in context rather than just memorizing it.
ReplyDeleteI really loved the different techniques used for word decoding in this article. One of my favorite techniques mentioned is the morpheme triangle tool. The triangle provides a really great opportunity for students to break down words into smaller parts, learn the sounds, and the meanings of each word part. There is a similar technique used for phonemes called Elkonin Boxes, which I am actually planning on using in my kindergarten classroom for my reading lesson. My teacher uses a phoneme technique where students tap their arms for each phoneme and run their hand down their arm to bland phonemes together. Although I like the idea of this technique for kinesthetic learners, I think this technique fails to provide a visual and aural stimulus for young learners, which is something Elkonin Boxes and the morpheme triangles do provide.
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