This week was a fun week. We looked at vocabulary - which is something that I have been doing in my classroom, and what I hope that I have been advocating for my learners. We looked at the background knowledge of vocabulary. Looking at some of the statistics that have come out about how much vocabulary our learners have show that our learners are in critical need of MORE. How can we teach that as teachers though? There are many dimensions to word knowledge, but just because a child can search a word up doesn't necessarily mean that they know what it means, or the other meanings that they may have. This is something that I will look at changing up in my Weekly Spelling Task. We also spoke about Word Consciousness. I wasn't familiar with this term but now I know that it means being aware and interested in words and word meanings, and noticing how the words are used too. I have a word wall in my classroom that my learners love adding to. I thought that getting the learners to se...