Today I was lucky enough to watch a teacher go over vocabulary with her students. She decided that her students need to have more experience with text of different types. Today she gave her students a text about things not to do on a date. These are 9th graders and it was hilarious to listen to them read about this subject. They were trying to not laugh or groan about the text. One thing she did though was interesting as I had just been reading about it in Harmon, Wood, and Hedrick reading. The teacher is planning on handing out miscellaneous reading with new words for the students to learn. Today one of the words was slovenly and it described what it meant afterwards in a subtle way. The teacher stopped the class and asked them what slovenly meant. Every student reread the text and told her the meaning in their own words. I'm sure most of them already knew what the word was, but there is always an opportunity to teach students new things. It was great to be there and witness exactly what I had been reading. This teacher is always looking for new ways to point out words that she thinks her students should know and it is so much fun to be in her class and watch all the different ways she is doing it.