Jago Ch 2

Classics in the Classroom Chapter 2: All About Words is about exactly what it says it is about. In this chapter Jago helped me to see how to use vocabulary from literature. I thought Jago's idea about giving students bookmarks to write down words they do not know was a great idea (see page 24 for an example of the bookmark.) Jago continued to talk about how she breaks down the words, such as prefixes and suffixes to show students the meaning of a word. I had never really thought about taking apart long words to help students understand vocab. It was a great idea.

I have always been nervous about vocabulary because I never knew exactly what to do with vocabulary in my future classroom. So the do's and don't Jago listed on page 32 was extremely helpful and it will be helpful. I learned that handing out crossword puzzles for vocab because it takes away valuable instruction time. She also said vocab quizzes that are not helping the student, but giving them a D or F is a BIG don't.