RL.K.4 Teaching Strategies

Read this article, The Vocabulary-Rich Classroom: Modeling Sophisticated Word Use to Promote Word Consciousness and Vocabulary Growth, for an explanation of what knowing a word really means and for teaching strategies to support children’s growth in knowing words. The article focuses on kindergarten.
 

Promoting Vocabulary During Read-Alouds: Primary Practices (2009), provides information on a number of vocabulary building strategies including questioning.

This link provides a one page overview of a process for practicing vocabulary through questions and answers based on Isabel Beck and Margaret McKeown’s book, Bringing Words to Life. The source for this resource is the Brevard County School District in Florida.

These three links may be helpful in formulating questions to guide children in responding to questions about unknown words in text.

Questions to guide instruction in kindergarten: phonics 

Questions to guide instruction in high frequency words

Questions to guide instruction in kindergarten: vocabulary

 
The Reading Rockets website has an extensive library that provides teachers with effective, research-based classroom strategies to help build and strengthen literacy skills in the following areas: print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.