Supersize Students' Word Knowledge!

In this 1or2 Day workshop - give your students the verbal advantage. Increasing our students’ vocabularies impacts nearly all academic subjects. Update your vocabulary instructional practices for indirect language expansion and for independent word learning to meet today’s curriculum standards. You will learn engaging, easy-to-implement, classroom-ready structures to expand and refine your students’ academic vocabularies, while deepening your own understanding of how the English language evolves. Experience first-hand the power of proven Kagan Structures that promote vocabulary acquisition. You learn research-based methods for active vocabulary learning.

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Workshop Highlights:

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• Learn easy strategies to indirectly impact students’ vocabulary expansion

• Structure team conversations to use and practise academic vocabulary

• Develop word knowledge through reading, writing, listening, and speaking

• Examine what research supports for vocabulary acquisition

• Make learning vocabulary fun and interactive for your students

• Show your students how to make terms stick in their minds

• Help students develop independent word-attack strategies through deepening their understandings of essential word elements