Read narrative or expository text aloud coupled with rich conversation about vocabulary and concepts to increase vocabulary.
Students can act out word phrase and sentence meanings.
Teachers may provide visual images for teaching new vocabulary. Students locate or create visual images when defining words or teaching word meanings to others. Students anchor word meanings in their lexicon through a strong visual image and use the visual image to recall the word.
Key word method (Levin, Levin, Glasman, & Nordwall, 1992 as cited in Blachowicz & Fisher, 2008) is an effective mnemonic device for increasing vocabulary knowledge.
Semantic relatedness techniques such as mapping, semantic feature analysis, and semantic/syntactic feature analysis are more effective than definitional instruction. (Bos &Anders, 1989, 1990, 1992 as cited in Blachowicz & Fisher, 2008).