Here are a few ways in which you can improve students’ reading vocabulary skills through PowerPoint
* Have a listing of the sight words that the students are to know and read
* Show words or pictures and have students pick which one does not rhyme (bee, tree, three, moon)
* Create a class story about the school and have pictures to match each sentence. “This is Alan’s desk.”
* Show students a word and have them write all words associated with that word and group those words. For sports, students might list hockey, baseball, ticket, glove, hot dog, and hoop
* Have students identify vocabulary by topic – show them pictures of ten occupations
* Show a Flickr or Google picture with many details such as a street scene, a restaurant scene or a kitchen and have them identify all the critical words from the picture.
* Teach student root, prefixes, and suffixes through interactive PowerPoint with word groups such as bicycle, biplane bifocals
How do you improve students’ reading vocabulary through PowerPoint?
© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007
We are focusing on teaching vocabulary strategies in addition to the meanings of individual words. (Strategies would be word structure (prefixes/suffixes which you mentioned, context clues, and apposition) We create vocabulary powerpoints with the words coming from each of our stories. The powerpoint can be used to introduce the vocab because it has pictures or during independent work time for students to review what we’ve discussed.