Instructional Vocabulary Materials
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With our vocabulary instruction for ESL students we need to mostly be focused on pulling language items from texts that students read in the content areas in order to aid their comprehension, as well as giving them the language we expect them to use in order to participate in the discourse of the content. Therefore, vocabulary instruction is best done and determined in collaboration with content teachers. However, this does not mean that students should not have ongoing vocabulary instruction that is focused on general language development and expansion.
Such instruction is often put by the wayside for ESL students unless the materials are ready-made to be used. So it is for this goal that I have created a system of vocabulary instruction based on the text Exceptional Expressions for Everyday Events. |
Polysemy and Parts of Speech |
This system focuses on instructing students in foundational concepts of English vocabulary, polysemy (multiple meanings), multiple parts of speech, synonyms, word origins, morphology, phrases and idioms - and then building on the background knowledge of social language that early and immediate learners already know in order to develop a greater word knowledge based on these concepts.
Below you will see a visually appealing instructional presentation for each one of these foundational concepts, followed by examples of vocabulary instruction based off the words “Look” and “Show.” As with all the presentations on this website, you will have to download them and view them on a personal computer to understand their full efficacy and use of animations within them that engage the learner in the instructional process and involves them with active practice in the concepts they are learning.
Below you will see a visually appealing instructional presentation for each one of these foundational concepts, followed by examples of vocabulary instruction based off the words “Look” and “Show.” As with all the presentations on this website, you will have to download them and view them on a personal computer to understand their full efficacy and use of animations within them that engage the learner in the instructional process and involves them with active practice in the concepts they are learning.