Family vocabulary

This lesson is designed to help students comprehend and use vocabulary words in order to understand their context in a unit. These vocabulary strategies enable the student to read more fluently, understand the author's word choice, and gain deeper insight into the meaning of a text.

The importance of family is central to Hispanic cultures, and thus the learning of family vocabulary is a great entry point to cultural discussions, as well as an easy way to relate new words directly to a student’s life. Have students create storyboards to help them practice family vocabulary!

Find suggestions on how to incorporate Storyboard That into your language learning class today! From posters to narratives to vocabulary practice, there's plenty of ways to make language learning fun, engaging, and visual.

Vocabulary is the knowledge of words and what they mean. Learning and using new vocabulary is something that continues and expands throughout our lives, and is way more than simply looking up and memorizing a definition.