Teaching and Learning Vocabulary in the Primary School

Jan Baynes

• Importance of vocabulary teaching and learning; developing some theory etc.
• How to teach vocabulary- strategies, scaffolding, prompts and supports for teachers to do this
• Ways of supporting students to think more deeply about the metacognitive aspects of learning vocabulary and to use these strategies to increase their own vocabulary
• Vocabulary across the curriculum- incorporating teaching and learning into planning and teaching across the curriculum
• Developing ‘vocabulary aware' learners- the metacognitive aspect

Venue: Mana Education Centre, 3 Serlby Place (NZ Post building), PORIRUA
Target Group: Primary teachers, beginning teachers, returning teachers
Learning Area: Literacy
Date: Thursday 16 May 2013
Time: 9.00am—3.00pm
Cost: $195+gst (MEC members); $230+gst (non MEC members)
MEC13.060

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