Creative Teaching, 2 Summary and Analysis

The Mechanics of Teaching the Key Vocabulary

Sylvia works with the key vocabulary in the morning when creativity is at its highest. Each child is asked to select a new word for the day. Sylvia writes that new word on a piece of cardboard which the child takes back to his mat and re-traces with his finger. The cards are gathered and accumulate in one box. All the cards are spilled out on the mat each day and when the children first come in, they collect all of their own words. They are then partnered with another child and teach each other their words. When a child cannot read one of her own cards, it is destroyed since it has obviously failed as a one-look word for that child. Depending on a child's personal experience, crippling fears may block...