Vocabulary Rich Classroom

According to Lane and Allen (2010)'promoting incidental learning and word conciousness through frequent and deliberate modeling of sophisticated vocabulary can add substantial breadth to students' vocabularies.'.Students who engage in daily activities where they use 'sophisticated' vocabulary will have a larger 'word bank'.
'Mrs. Barker assigned classroom jobs at circle time'to her kindergarten, the jobs assigned simply identified at the beginning of the school year,September, but by February she changed the names of the duties such as zookeeper became "animal nutrition specialist", the cleanup helper became the "custodian" and the line leader was the "class movement coordinator". By changing the names of the duties the sudents are now aware of synonyms of the words they were using originally and since the duty has not changed they are very much knowledgeable about the the meaning of these new sophisticated words.
All teachers should 'model sophisticated vocabulary use' like Mrs. Barker. We should not 'dumb-down our language' for the students, 'simplistic vocabulary may be appropriate for initial instruction, as a supportfor students' understanding of a new concept. But once students develop a basic understanding, it is time to elevate our instructional language to enhance our students' vocabularies'(Lane & Allen, 2010)

'Sophisticated Words to use:
correct: accomplished, appropriate, exemplary, masterful, precise, proficient, proper, superior, suitable.' (Lane & Allen,2010)

Reference:

Allen,S.A. & Lane,H.B.(2010) The Vocabulary-Rich Classroom: Modeling Sophisticated Word Use to Promote Word Consciousness and Vocabulary Growth. Reading Teacher,63(5),362-370.doi:10.1598/RT.63.5.2