Listen to audio of teachers discussing vocabulary strategies, as
you watch images from their classrooms in these slideshows from
SERVE. In the first slideshow, three kindergarten teachers
explain how they use picture cards to introduce new target
vocabulary words that students will encounter in a story that
the teacher will read to them. The images on the cards help
students get a mental image of what the new word describes,
while the teacher discusses the word in context to give it
meaning. In the second slideshow, two kindergarten teachers
explain how they make time during the day to engage their
students in rich conversation, re-casting simple vocabulary with
new target vocabulary words when possible. The conversations are
unscripted, and allow students to talk about their lives using
new vocabulary. Academic standards correlations on Teachers'
Domain use the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) database of
state and national standards, provided to NSDL projects courtesy
of JES & Co. We assign reference ter