Dare to Differentiate
Third Edition
Vocabulary Strategies for All Students
Danny Brassell
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