Pump Up the Volume

Making the Oral Vocabulary Connection

By Laureen Reynolds

Grades: K to 3

Everything you need to boost your students' vocabulary, improve their listening and comprehension skills, develop their abilities to engage in high-quality conversation, help them untangle the mystery of multiple-meaning words, and then some. If your students can say a word and understand it, they can use it everyday.

This research based activity guide features 32 activities to boost students' oral vocabulary skills such as positional concepts, multiple meaning words, making predictions, and classifying. The author also discusses how to effectively use everyday activities such as morning meeting, read aloud, and classroom questioning strategies to increase students' oral vocabulary. Use this book as a guide for therapy activities or as a resource for consultation with teachers and parents. Reproducibles included as needed. 80 pages.