Term 2 Inquiry Update
Will feeding vocabulary with directed discussion increase kids language acquisition and participation within class discussions? This associates with the Manaiakalani CoL achievement challenge #6: 'Lift the achievement in maths for all students years 1-13.' I still find myself regularly gifting vocabulary to the students hoping they retain some of this eventually and it becomes a part of their own vocabulary. To simplify my inquiry, I have split it into 2 sections; language acquisition and participation within classroom discussions. Current Vocabulary: RED: Unknown words GREEN: Words they knew This was a huge shock to me as I saw so many holes (red spaces) where I am probably using these terms with the students being clueless about what I have actually said. Once I begun to fill the holes of unknown words, it came to my attention that I'm still not improving their own language acquisition as they're still saying te