Train your Students to Be Good Vocabulary Learners(part 1)

Revise the vocabulary regularly in the classroom. Tell them to revise them at home. You can advise them to have two vocabulary boxes where they would keep their words written on index cards. One of the boxes will contain words to be learned, the other will contain the words which have been learned.

Have a vocabulary box in the class, add the new words in it. From time to time play games with them like hot seat, tic-tac-toe or you can choose five words from the box .Ask them to write a paragraph or a 50 word story or even a poem or a song and then tell them to recite or sing.

Prepare word posters using word art or any word cloud generator on the web like worditout or ABCya. Display them on the classroom walls or noticeboards. You can ask your students to draw pictures of compound nouns, idioms or expressions. Use the most powerful tools of your classroom to make your students see them all the time. Display them on the walls... You can choose a word poster and ask your students to write a story or a meaningful paragraph using, say 8 words from the poster. You can choose a poster. Put your students in pairs or groups, depending on the size of your class and ask to prepare a vocabulary quiz or a puzzle for their classmates. Monitor them while working. You can even let them use their dictionaries while working.