{"id":1335,"date":"2021-11-01T13:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:26:04","slug":"vocabulary-focus-at-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/2021\/11\/01\/vocabulary-focus-at-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary Focus at Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the fundamental building blocks of learning is vocabulary. Having a well-rounded vocabulary plays a very important role in students’ learning to read. Communication skills, language development, and comprehension are linked to a strong vocabulary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our staff participated in a Professional development where the teachers played Human Scrabble. During this staff meeting, the teachers were mixed into groups of 8-10 people based on the shape that they were given when they entered the cafeteria. Each group was given a set of scrabble letters with a string attached so they could put the letter around their neck. Everyone in the group had to have a letter to make a word, and the group with the highest points won. The word that won was JUXTAPOSITION. The staff was encouraged to do the Human Scrabble game with their classes as a way to have fun with learning vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the fundamental building blocks of learning is vocabulary. Having a well-rounded vocabulary plays a very important role in students’ learning to read. Communication skills, language development, and comprehension are linked to a strong vocabulary. Our staff participated in a Professional development where the teachers played Human Scrabble. During this staff meeting, the teachers … Continue reading Vocabulary Focus at Lincoln<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrencityschools.org\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}