Focus on vocabulary - Blended learning
Provides Kindergarten to Year 8 teachers with an opportunity to explore the importance of vocabulary knowledge for writing and reading.
Purpose
Participants explore:
- how to plan for explicit vocabulary instruction in all curriculum areas
- how to establish a culture that supports word conscious learners
- resources for teaching, consolidating, differentiating and assessing vocabulary instruction.
Who should participate?
Kindergarten to Year 8 teachers
Mode of delivery
Blended learning - a mix of self-paced and facilitator-led online learning
Content
This blended learning course includes 3 self-paced modules and a facilitated session
Modules 1-3 are self-paced learning (total 2.5 hours). Complete these modules prior to Module 4 (facilitated session).
- Module 1: Why vocabulary is critical (approximately 1 hour)
- Module 2: Decisions about vocabulary instruction (approximately 30 minutes)
- Module 3: Developing confident vocabulary learners (approximately 1 hour)
- Module 4: What does explicit teaching of vocabulary look like in the classroom? (facilitated session)
Completing this blended learning course will help participants to:
- explore the critical nature of vocabulary for writing and reading comprehension
- develop an understanding of the tier framework for considering vocabulary
- understand how to use the teaching and learning cycle to frame decisions about vocabulary teaching and learning
- explore ways to develop 'word conscious' vocabulary learners
- understand the role of context clues, morphology and figurative language in learning new vocabulary
- develop a deeper understanding of how vocabulary can be explicitly taught in the classroom.
2025 dates
Term 1
Facilitated session: Thursday 3 April (9:30am - 1:30pm)