Dare to Differentiate

Strategies

1. Analogies

2. Barrier Games

*Word Play: Neologisms/Sniglets

3. Concept Ladders

4. Contextual Redefinition

*Word Play: Rebuses

5. Exclusion Brainstorming

6. Hierarchical and Linear Arrays

*Word Play: Eponyms

7. Idioms

8. Interactive Word Walls

*Word Play: Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies, and Hinkity Pinkities

9. K–W–L Plus

10. List–Group–Label

*Word Play: Tom Swiftlies

11. Morphemic Analysis

12. Personal Vocabulary Journals

*Word Play: Dittograms

13. Possible Sentences

14. Read-Alouds

*Word Play: Book Talk

15. Scavenger Hunts

16. Semantic Feature Analysis

*Word Play: Pangrams

17. Semantic Mapping

18. Student VOC Strategy

*Word Play: Oxymorons

19. Text Talk

20. Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy

*Word Play: Top Ten Lists

21. Vocab-o-grams

22. Vocabulary Cards (Example/Nonexample)

*Word Play: Palindromes

23. Word Plays

24. Word Riddles

25. Word Sorts