Vocabulary

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Vocabulary

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• How to draw conclusions without
• an art set

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Flashing Words

• Select 10-15 essential vocabulary terms for your
  study
• Type these in a large font onto a PowerPoint
  presentation
• Set the timer so that the words will flash on the
  screen for a desired length of time

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Great for

• Practice
• Spelling
• Definitions
• Word recognition
• Review
• Self-assessment

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Jim Burke 4 Square Logos

• Vocabulary squares provide a reasonable balance
  between number of words and the ability to
  process them.
• According to Clagget and Brown (1992) students
  who drew the wordsi.e. translated them into
  symbols and pictures remembered the words longer
  and better than those who used various other
  methods.

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4 square logos

• One easy way to do this is to have the student
  write the word on one side of an index card and
  draw a symbol or image on the other.
• For more interaction with the words the 4 square
  card works very well.

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4 square card
adjacent
synonyms antonyms etymology sentence using word

• adjacent

(Front of Card)
(Back of Card)
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Word Charades

• Select 10-15 vocabulary words
• Fill boxes (one for each group of 2, 3, or 4
  students
• Boxes will have a variety of items paperclips,
  noodles, ruler, string, rubber band, Kleenex,
  toothpick
• Imagination to create innovative activities to
  get a partner to guess the correct term

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The sky's the limit for creativity!

• Guess the word
• Spell the word
• Partners or one at a time
• Look at the list
• Draw from memory
• Set a timer
• Win points for a prize

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Rhymed Couplets

• Students learn through rhythm, rhyme and
  repetition as seen through quick and easy
  acquisition of rap and song lyrics. Rhymed
  couplets is a way to use this innate ability.
• Give students a list of words essential to the
  unit of study. Divide the class and give every
  pair of students 2 or 3 words.

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Rhymed couplets

• Each pair works collaboratively to familiarize
  themselves with the definition and the fine
  shades of meaning.
• Using this knowledge, students are challenged to
  create a classroom appropriate couplet, or two
  line rhyme, to demonstrate the meaning for the
  rest of the class.

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An example for astuteIf youre astute when
you play the flute,Youll know exactly what note
to toot.An example for adjacentAdjacent
houses share a property line,If you have good
neighbors youll get along fine.
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Tiered Vocabulary

• Wouldnt it be wonderful if they
• learned every word
• used it correctly
• spelled it automatically
• demanded more, more, more?
• Enter the real world!

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In reality

• Many
• dont
• wont
• cant
• choose not to
• While others desire to learn everything they can.

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Tiered Vocabulary to the Rescue
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Select your most important terms.

• Students can help with this too.
• 20 is plenty.
• Sort into 3 categories
• easy/all students should know
• essential for understanding
• Challenge words

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You may have already determined the difficulty of
the words

• But sometimes it pays
• off to have students help in the sort.

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Tier 1

• Words that every student should already know
• But you know that your ELL and
• Spec. Ed. Students will struggle with some if
  not all of them.
• You are handing them success while also building
  towards higher learning.

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Tier 2

• These terms students simply have to know to move
  ahead. They are challenging but also meet the
  needs of most students in your class.
• Your struggling students may not get most of
  them but at least they have been exposed.

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Tier 3

• Challenge words
• Great to know but beyond the ability of many of
  your students.
• Excellent for TAG.
• Good exposure for all.
• Tiered vocabulary builds a foundation and adds
  structure for all students.

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Tier 3 Tier 2 Tier 1
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Etymologyno, its not studying bugs its
studying word origins!
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Etymology

• Students learn through context, if they have a
  concrete image to anchor a word.
• Stories of word origins provide students with the
  required imagery.
• Entertaining
• Quick
• Boost scores on assessments
• Increase cultural literacy

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Etymology

• Good foundation for word attack skills
• Common roots and affixes
• Synonyms, related words and contrast words.
• David PopkinVocabulary Energizers

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Dont forget the old standbys

• Active word walls
• White boards and markers
• Classroom Jeopardyhigh tech and low tech
• Classroom Scrabble by Hasbro
• Semantic maps
• Modeling

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Sources for workshop

• Allen, JanetWords, Words ,Words
• Burke, Jim. The English Teachers Companion.
• Burke, Jim. Reading Reminders.
• Beck,Kucan, Mckeown. Bringing Words to
  LifeRobust Vocabulary Instruction.
• Carnicelli, Thomas Words Work.
• McIntosh, Meggin. Owning words for Literacya
  workshop
• Popkin, David Vocabulary Energizers.
• Paternoster and Fragerstone. Three Dimensions of
  Vocabulary Growth.

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