Vocabulary- Prefixes

Did additional work on prefixes so students use these prefixes rather than not e.g. unhappy instead of not happy.

Prefix	Meaning	3 words	Images
non	from, down, away reverse, opposite	Decode, decrease, deduce	decrease
mis	wrongly, badly, unsuitably	misplaced, misunderstood, misfortune	misplace
in	middle, surround, within	incorrect, inheritance, inflatable	incorrect
pre	before, previously	previous, precise, predator	predator
pro	professional, experienced, advanced	professional, protein, property	protein
il	Adjective, describing	illegal, illustrator, illusion	illusion
de	down, away, remove	degrees, dentist, define	degrees
ex	Not including	Example, expert, exchange	exchange

Root words

Today for vocabulary we studied root words. The students had difficulty working out the root word when we did the word of the day.

Root Word A root word has no prefix or suffix — it's the most basic part of a word.	Meaning	Words with the root word
act	verb:do something noun: a deed or pretence	Action, actor, actress
form
port
Auto
audi
graph
tele
photo
path
omni
mit

Vocabulary Building- Time

To begin the lessons on time I started with the vocabulary. I introduced International Timeline and International Date line  amongst other words. For consolidation students made word clouds and then posted on their blogs. During the course of the week I heard these words being used during problem solving.

Aligning my Inquiry across our Community of Learning

Strange but True! I read Andrea's blog post and found that it closely aligned with mine - but my inquiry is in Reading while hers was in Mathematics.

Vocabulary in Maths

Having planned to link vocabulary across all curriculum areas, to improve reading of my targeted students, this is an example in Mathematics.

Rebecca's Blog post showing vocabulary being emphasized across all learning areas, Mathematics in this instance.

I am still working on frontloading vocabulary across all the curriculum areas.  I have yet to assess if there is a difference in the students reading levels.

Teaching Inquiry - What's my why?

Something was not right.  It did not take long to figure out that my students were having problem reading, understand and writing because their vocabulary was limited.  The challenge to improve their vocabulary became my teaching inquiry.

It is important that my students are helped with their vocabulary, and I think that it is worth spending time on this.

I have therefore focussed my teaching inquiry to:

investigate through a variety of approaches, strategies and scaffolds, the effect of the meaning , use (oral,written) and form ( grammar) of words in accelerating reading comprehension.