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Could you give me a little more information about your Vocabulary Bingo?
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Could you give me a little more information about your Vocabulary Bingo? Is it related to a particular basal story or unit in something else that you are studying or is it part of your spelling? What grade level do you teach? How often do you play? More information will help us to find appropriate research. I look forward to hearing from you. The vocabulary bingo is based on the 75 first grade high- frequency words. Passing the high frequency word evaluation with 80% or above is an HISD promotion standard for first grade. I would usually do this activity once a week (whole group) as part of the letter recognition activities and for spelling and dictation. However, I felt discouraged to use this activity as a best use of time during the Language Arts block. However, since I went to your 5 day Literacy courses, I decided to use this activity as before. Also, I use Bingo as a workstation activity with sight words.Thank you for your help. I am finding it difficult to use the literacy practices used in the foundations lesson plans, because administration wants to see more small group interventions and workstations as well as guided reading groups. How can I balance these practices with the foundations for language lesson plan? I prefer using the foundations for language lessons and mainly in whole groups and cooperative groups through direct systematic instruction.
That extra information is very helpful. It sounds like you are right on track. Using vocabulary bingo is a great small group activity. You could also add rapid word recognition charts and review the words using the charts and then end the lesson with a quick game of bingo to reinforce the words practiced. Using vocabulary bingo in that way it would fit right into the Foundations lesson plan. Practice with the rapid word recognition charts is also a wonderful workstation activity. As far as research, the National Institute for Literacy and the U.S. Department of Education produced a book called Put Reading First which states the important components for reading are phonemic awareness, phonics instruction, fluency instruction, vocabulary instruction and text comprehension instruction. “Vocabulary plays an important part in learning to read. As beginning readers, children use the use the words they have heard to make sense of the words they see in print.” In order for them to make sense of the words, they need to practice. Here’s a website that will give you lots more quotes on vocabulary research: www.readingrockets.org/research/topic/vocabulary.
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