Dripping With Words
- Dripping With Words
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tutor/Bus Monitor
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Five years ago I took a reading course as a requirement to update my teaching certificate. The first night of class my professor talked to us about the importance of exciting and engaging vocabulary instruction. Next, she said something I will never forget:
“Our students should be dripping with words.”
Today I was the bus monitor for our after school tutoring program. One of our students, a kindergartener, wanted to review his vocabulary words with me. Some of the words were from his school work and the remainder were from a special group of words I gave him two weeks ago. Today he wanted to add specific words to his ever-growing list: Superman, car wash, mixed, just to name a few. Of course, I added a few words too. Approximately one hour into the bus ride another student initiated a dialogue with me for a few minutes. Before I knew it, the young boy I had been working with quietly interrupted and said, “Miss Caroline, can we please get back to these words?” The five year old boy was engaged and excited about vocabulary instruction, regardless of being on a large yellow school bus! Of course, in the back of my mind I was saying, “He should be dripping with words.”
The children we provide tutoring for experience homelessness. They deserve robust, meaningful vocabulary instruction. If we can put them on a lifelong path of fascination with words the cycle of homelessness just may be broken.
They should all be “dripping with words.”
Caroline Jones
Education Coordinator, School on Wheels of MA
inspirational! Keep motivating our youth Ms. Jones! And if you don’t hear enough thanks…I say, “THANK YOU”!
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