Making the Most of Your Morning Work : A Vocabulary Focus

LMBLiteracyJuly 14, 20230 Comment0325

Morning Work Activities

Picture this. You wake up in the morning and enter your classroom running a bit behind. However, you’re morning work is already in a binder next to your desk ready to use for the entire year. Even better than that? Once you’ve used it, your vocabulary instruction has been set up for the day!

Luckily, I have created a time saver that not only has my morning work covered, but my vocabulary instruction also. This morning work activity has been a life saver in my classroom!

teacher walking into her classroom in the morning

Vocabulary Building with Morning Work

Is this magic, you ask? Well, no. But morning work activities with a vocabulary component have proven essential in my daily routine. Not only are these vocabulary-building morning work activities a great supplement to any curriculum, but when it is done during morning work time, you are more likely to have students engaged!

Language Development

In the vocabulary morning work activities I use daily, students are exposed to 180 different vocabulary words for grades 4-6. The sheets alternate between two formats so students can enjoy one format each time. Their language development progress will show quickly because they use the words in different mediums. For example, students are asked to write sentences and draw pictures.

How do you think you could use this in your elementary classroom?

Using this morning work in your elementary or middle-grade classroom can be as easy as you want! I use this both digitally and in paper format. I have found the students to engage well with both types, and sometimes I differentiate for students who strictly prefer one or the other. Here is a digital example below.