by Gaspar Villar

“Inclusion is the main aim for all of these children (Drabble, 2018).” Thus, we need to address all our students considering that each of them need some sort of special education. Whenever we think about Special Education Needs (SEN) we tend to think about students who may require some kind of assistance to learn or master what their classmates are doing. There are other students who may also need help but who are gifted.

Today we are going to start exploring a very useful tool to implement in the classroom: Glossary Maker – Wordsmyth. Glossaries are an excellent for students to work out the meaning of words, texts, draw main ideas and learn new vocabulary. They also help students to get familiarized with dictionary and how to use them without the overwhelming number of words.

How to use Wordsmyth in the classroom?

You can ask the gifted student to work on a glossary for a text that you will implement later. The sky is the limit. You can ask him to work with some other students to spot what word they think that can be tricky for their classmates and create a glossary for them. You can also make groups and ask your gifted or most advanced student to help them.

These kinds of activities will help the entire classroom. Those who normally cope with texts and their meanings and those who can get easily bored because they finish their exercises sooner.

References

UCAS. (2018, November 6). How to support children with SEND in the mainstream classroom - Cherryl Drabble.

https://www.ucas.com/connect/blogs/how-support-children-send-mainstream-classroom-cherryl-drabble