Literacy Association of Tennessee Annual Conference

Students of all ages can develop facility in learning vocabulary using various text sources through the use of vocabulary enactments. Enacting vocabulary words can offer children access to understanding powerful ideas and can help them bridge the language in the texts to make real-worlds connections. At the same time teachers can extend learning by having their students participate in literacy processes, such as discussion, storytelling, retelling, and purposeful writing that support the use of the vocabulary in context. In this session the presenters will first demonstrate and then engage the audience participants in activities that will support teaching targeted vocabulary taken from four texts. Using different genres, a demonstration of enactment strategies will occur through storytelling, song and movement to support authentic integration of literacy processes. Additional follow-up literacy strategies appropriate for classroom use will be presented to extend comprehension of the vocabulary words introduced.