Global Vocabulary A-Z Project!

Educational blogging offers many rewards! 

The collaborative learning connections that can occur when the classroom walls are flattened are rich and engaging for all learners, teachers included! 

Here is a slide show documenting an international vocabulary building project between our third grade class in California and our blogging buddies in England, A Room With a View. This fabulous A-Z Twitter project was the idea of  Catherine Monaghan. This literacy project integrates dictionary skills, Twitter, Google Presentations, and blogging.

Here is a blog post about the project.

Enjoy!

What was your favorite word?

What do you think of this type of global project?

Students and friends, use a high-level word or two in your comment! Let's keep learning!  

(Use html code to bold your word.)

Valuable Vocabulary : Tweeting A-Z

Twitter offers many educational opportunities!

Two weeks ago, we started a collaborative project via Twitter with our English blogging buddies in Mrs. Monaghan's class. 

For 26 days, the students will tweet out interesting vocabulary words they would like to share with their cohort. (Wow! That's an impressive word! Students, what exactly is a cohort?)

Welcome to Vocabulary Tweets A-Z

Each school day, students will work with a new letter of the alphabet. Pupils will brainstorm words that begin with the letter-of-the-day and a final word-of-the-day will be tweeted out. Words come from independent reading, curricular content, or our good friend, the dictionary! 

Dictionary skills are strengthened via these Twitter tasks! 

Brainstorming Examples:

D

E

Each tweet includes the word, part of speech, and a definition or context clue.  (Context clues are the words around an unknown word that help a reader unlock a word's meaning.) 

Here was the first tweet from Mrs. Monaghan's class:

A

And then they offered another A...

We responded with our first tweet! 

A is for alliteration! 

B

C

We've been using the hashtag #vocabaz to keep track of our words!

A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Monahgan and her class for thinking of the project and working with us on this transatlantic enterprise – it’s a great verbal work-out for the start of our day

Join us in our tweets – tweet us with your own alphabetical contributions using #vocabaz to:

@yollisclass

@middlehamclass2 

What are some valuable vocabulary words you like?

What other projects could be done using Twitter?