Vocabulary Labeling

A simple, yet effective way to help your students learn the VOCABULARY of your classroom and curriculum is to put labels onto the various tools, storage areas, and equipment that you use. This way the words are constantly present in your classroom environment and after you introduce these terms to your students they can continually have a reference as they look and work around your room. This labelling technique can be helpful for those students who are learning a new language, as well as for those students who are more visual learners.

Some teachers will create a board of the vocabulary words...sometimes they call it a "Word Splash" board. Others will label specific items e.g. - in the woodshop tool cabinet a small sign that reads - "Hammers" is located in the area where all of the hammers are hanging; a sign that reads -  "Screwdrivers" does the same for where those tools are stored.

Just look around your whole room and label everything that you feel is of importance to your classroom, as well as the vocabulary that you use for your lessons.

I have been pleasantly surprised at how observent the students are about this signage. They can and do observe and memorize it...and, will miss it when it is removed from where they are used to seeing it!