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Chapter 13: Word Consciousness. Teaching Reading Sourcebook 2 nd edition. Word Consciousness. Word conscious students are curious about language, like to play with words, and enjoy learning about the origins of words.
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Chapter 13: Word Consciousness Teaching Reading Sourcebook 2nd edition
Word Consciousness • Word conscious students are curious about language, like to play with words, and enjoy learning about the origins of words. • A word-rich classroom fosters word consciousness through: dictionaries, thesauruses , word walls, word games and puzzles, literature and poetry books, and word play and joke books.
Adept Diction • Adept diction involves the skillful or artful use of words in speaking and writing. • Teachers can model adept diction by • their own choice of words; • drawing attention to the skillful use of words in texts that students are reading; • encouraging students to expand their own range of word choice in their speech and writing; • motivating students to recognize how words are used and where they appear outside of class. (e.g. Word Wizard)
Word Consciousness • Knowing categories of words helps students make finer distinctions in their word choice. • Synonyms: words very close in meaning • Antonyms: words that are opposite or nearly opposite in meaning • Homographs: words spelled the same with different meanings and different origins • Figurative language: similes, metaphors, idioms • These distinctions involve knowing words have • Denotations: literal meaning; and • Connotations: feelings associated with a word. (e.g. positive, negative, neutral)
Word Play • Word and language play engages students in active, social, learning and provides motivation to improve their language skills. • Word play is accomplished through • Names: eponyms, toponyms • Expressions: proverbs, slang • Word formations: acronyms, portmanteaus • Word games: puns, riddles, tongue twisters • Word manipulations: anagrams, palindromes See Categories of Word Play onpage 575.
Word Histories and Origins • Structure and origins of English • Anglo Saxon: Short everyday words used frequently in ordinary conversation. (book, table) • Latin: Longer, more formal words used in content area textbooks and literature. (instructor, predict) Latin is the basis for the Romance languages. • Greek: Specialized words used mostly in science and technology. (astronomy, grapheme)
