9 things about vocabulary

I read the article Nine things every teacher should know about words and vocabulary instruction.  This article covered a collection of suggestions to help you teach vocabulary to your students.  This article really seemed to focus on vocabulary in the sense of actually teaching vocabulary as the primary subject.  It didn't seem to apply much to how I would be teaching vocabulary in a math classroom.  Either way, I found the article interesting because it gives a clear and to-the-point way of looking at vocabulary.  I really liked Table 1 - a simple organizer for common prefixes, roots, and suffixes.  In rereading the article, I found a few things that could work in a math classroom.  Connecting previous knowledge is something that's always being done in a math classroom.  Other items for consideration included things we've already discusses in our class.  Using K-W-L strategies or using context to figure out the meaning of words students are struggling with are a few of the ideas presented in the article.  Overall an interesting article, but hard to contextualize for mathematics.