Module 5 Discussion: Language Acquisition in Content Areas

vocabulary journals and popcorn whole group reading strategies. Keeping a vocabulary journal will help students track their knowledge of new words and how to add those words to their daily vocabulary. Using this strategy will help the student decode prefixes, suffixes, and root words. This strategy is important because there is no way to teach students every word in the dictionary, but this tool will help them with the words needed to be successful in the course.