Response to Abbey's Blog #8

I do also think fluency is very important in dealing with literacy and it also is almost the basis of how students go about understanding linguistics. (whether they know it or not!) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry would be a great book to use for focusing on vocabulary, and I agree that there are many words in there that require much attention. The use of the vocabulary in the book could raise many questions with students and I think that it would be important to talk about that with them; using a jig saw would be a great idea for all students to express their ideas and thoughts. I feel like vocabulary is something that is very much like rote learning, especially in the sense that many teachers do the same thing in teaching vocabulary to a class, coming up with new ways to incorporate vocab into a classroom would be very beneficial!