Week 9

While I was searching for strategies to teach Science and Social Studies I ran across several ways to teach vocabulary. One strategy I found was having the child look up the word and then use it in their own sentence. This ensures that they not only know the definition but also understand how to apply it. When teaching these subjects I think it is very important to pre-teach the vocabulary so that the students are not lost during the lectures. It is important to incorporate vocabulary activities using the new words before prior to teaching the actual material.

I think one of the most important ways you can prepare to teach these two subjects is to know the subjects yourself. We cannot expect to teach students to understand something if we do not understand it ourselves. I think we as teachers need to know the material well enough that we can alter and modify it in ways that our students will better understand.


I think a good way to expand on similarities and differences and get our children to the level of creating metaphors and analogies is providing lots of modeling. It is important for the children to see this kind of language being used. I think our students will require more explicit teaching of these things than children without a hearing loss. I think a good way to start this could be making a list comparing two things and then plugging those words into a sentence. The teacher could provide several examples and then ask the students to create their own.