As you reviewed the components in this folder, you were exposed to a variety of ways to incorporate language instruction into your classroom. Here is a review of the four instructional strategies that were presented.
- Language Scaffolding provides ten activities that utilize
every opportunity during the school day
to enhance language and vocabulary development. - Book Embedded Vocabulary Instruction uses children’s books and bookmarks to incorporate language and vocabulary instruction in the classroom.
- Dialogic Reading enhances vocabulary and oral language skills using realistic illustrations in children’s books.
- Think, Show, Tell, Talk promotes language and vocabulary development by using a specific routine to label objects or actions during daily classroom routines.
For further summary of these four instructional strategies, you are invited
to print out and review the attached Summary Chart.
All four strategies are equally effective for increasing language and vocabulary knowledge. Although these strategies are effective ways to include daily language instruction in your classroom, children’s language development requires ongoing, intentional support. These strategies are simply a starting point. You will know the children in your class have mastered new words when they begin to spontaneously and appropriately use the words you are teaching them in their personal language. To guarantee that this happens, the new words must be reinforced throughout the day.
