Word Study
Using Characters to Anchor Understanding of Words (Virtual Tour)
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 3: Literacy for GrowthAges:
8-10
Grade Range:
3rd 4thFood Groups:
Primary:
Vocabulary
Transcript
My Negative Nancy and my Positive Pam were a creative way to put up an anchor chart to help my students with negatives. Negatives are something that they have a lot of trouble with because they use a lot of double negatives. So with our grammar, with our language arts, once we introduce negative, I came up with negative Nancy. We located negatives in our grammar book, we kind of went through a little scavenger hunt in our English book and they found negatives. Once we came up with the negatives I allowed them to help me come up with sentences also to help them recall how those negatives will be used in sentences. And once I had Negative Nancy they actually said "what about Positive..." and I think they said positive Polla, but we just kind of decided that Positive Pam was a little bit more personal for us. So these are just anchor charts that we came up with to distinguish the difference between the negatives and the positives, so I have my Negative Nancy and my Positive Pam.
Activity Objective
The goal of Word Study: Using Characters to Anchor Understanding of Words (Virtual Tour) is to explicitly teach and identify negatives and positives.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- Exposing students to new vocabulary words will help them expand their vocabulary.
- Give students opportunities to apply their understanding of nouns to real-life situations.
- Develop anchor charts with the students. This provides them with opportunities to take responsibility for their learning and makes their ideas visible and important.
- Anchor charts provide a visual reference of students' thinking and supports ongoing learning.
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