Make Story Time Stupendous with Direct Vocabulary Instruction

As a first grade teacher, my favorite part of the day became, without a doubt, direct vocabulary instruction. More specifically, a research-based approach called text talks. Far from “drill and kill,” text talks brought words to life for my students through teaching vocabulary in the context of story time, or read alouds. Text talks allow for choice in what is read and the words taught. This makes the text talk approach to direct vocabulary instruction easy to integrate into existing story time programming. Here’s how… Before Story Time During Story Time Read the text as you typically do during story time, leaving time to teach vocabulary after. Again: you’ll want to set aside at least 5 minutes per word you selected. After Story Time And that’s it! For more than 100 more examples of text talks, click here to download this resource from Utah’s State Office of Education. How do you…
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