HARDHATS REQUIRED Building Vocabulary Construction Zone

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HARDHATS REQUIRED!Building Vocabulary
Construction Zone

• May 19, 2009

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Child Activity

• Word Wizard
• Word Play
• Vocabulary Clues
• Ball Hogs
• Synonyms
• Antonyms

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Reflections

• Journals Phonemic/Phonics Reflection
• Daily Entry (Parent Left Side)
• Strategy Tried (at least 3 days)
• Amount of Time
• Personal Response (questions, concerns)
• Response / Feelings (Child Right Side)

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Introduction - OAT

• OAT
• Context Clues
• Picture for Comprehension
• They saw old plants and leaves and trees crumble
  apart on the forest floor and disappear into the
  soil.
• What does crumble apart mean? (MAY 2008)
• Replace words
• I ask Grandma Lena if the radio was boring, and
  she tells me that people thought it was
  fantastic.
• What does fantastic mean?
• all right, terrific, serious (MAY 2008)

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Introduction - OAT

• OAT
• Word Meaning
• Picture for Comprehension
• Which word tells about more than one?
• writes, cities, address (MAY 2008)
• Look at Affixes (prefix/suffix)
• When Eric won first prize, he said, I am the
  _____ boy in the whole world!
• lucky, luckier, luckiest (MARCH 2005)
• Amy was unsure when the bus would arrive.
• What does unsure mean?
• very sure, not sure, more sure (OCT 2007)

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Introduction - OAT

• OAT
• Word Parts
• Antonym/Synonym
• The towels they took home from the pool were
  damp. (OCT 2007)
• What word is a synonym for make? (OCT 2007)
• Resources
• Dictionary
• Which definition of pass is used in the sentence
  below?
• pass (pas) v.1. to go by somebody or something
• v.2. to give something to somebody
• n.3. a note of permission
• When I get near the goal, pass the ball to me.
  (MAY 2008)

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Discussion

• Vocabulary
• Word Consciousness
• Figures of Speech
• Word-Meaning Recall
• Dictionary
• Antonyms / Synonyms
• Prefix/Suffix
• Contextual Analysis
• Infer word meanings
• Homonyms

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Discussion

• Strategies
• Connect Four
• Build a Ladder
• 5 Apples
• Old Maid

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Parent Child Activity

• Journals
• Weekly Triangle
• 3 Things Learned
• 2 Strategies to Try
• 1 Self-Challenge
• Discuss Strategies
• Choose 2
• Create Vocabulary Cards
• Child write unknown words on index cards
• Parent Use Strategies
• Look at prefix/suffix, compare antonyms/synonyms,
  dictionary
• Reread sentence and find clues to help determine
  words