These five vocabulary instruction strategies are helpful for elementary students:
1. Word Detective: writing down new words they discover while reading on a sticky note.
2. Semantic Maps: creating maps or webs to visually display meaning-based connections between a word or phrase.
3. Word Wizard: a type of cooperative learning where each child is responsible for learning three new words to teach to the rest of the group.
4. Concept Cube: a three-dimensional cube containing a target vocabulary word, a synonym, an antonym, a category, some essential characteristics of the word, and an example.
5. Word Connect: finding the connection between two words written in the center of a Venn diagram