Quality Plus Teaching Strategies

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Quality Plus Teaching Strategies

• Vocabulary
• 11-19-08

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Background Knowledge

• Highlighted article on Importance of Vocabulary
  from Learning Focused Schools training guide
• Reviewed two common models for direct vocabulary
  instruction Frayer and Word Map
• Reviewed Rubric on assessing vocabulary
  strategies
• Used Frayer Model to describe each category on
  the vocabulary strategies rubric
• Summarized descriptors in a chart for vocabulary
  learning walks

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GCPS Vocabulary Descriptor

• Explicitly teach essential content-related
  vocabulary.
• Evidence of effective use of strategy.
• Vocabulary is posted in the classroom and school
  in meaningful ways specific to grade level and
  content.
• Teacher previews and presents vocabulary in
  context through a variety of strategies
• Students apply their knowledge of vocabulary in
  their work and writings, and transfer their
  knowledge to subsequent learning.

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Word Walls

• A systematically organized collection of key
  words targeted for study
• Visual reference point where words are displayed
  in large letters and color-coded for easy
  identification
• In upper grades, they typically focus on new
  content vocabulary, clustered by theme or topic
• May have permanent word walls, with most
  important vocabulary displayed all year

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Strategies for Word Walls

• Encourage the use of the word walls by referring
  to it during instruction, as well as while
  completing practice activities or writing
  responses
• Add a color-coding system and/or use related
  pictures or symbols as a scaffolding technique
• Teachers will limited wall space may have
  students create word/vocabulary notebooks where
  students record new words on a personal word
  wall file folder

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Adaptations to Word Walls

• Pocket Chart Word Wall
• Portable File Folder Word Wall
• Floor Walk Word Wall velcro
• Magnetic Board Word Wall business card magnets
• Art Board Word Wall science project boards
• Locker Word Wall
• Clothes Line Word Wall

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• Words on a wall in a classroom will not greatly
  impact achievement unless they are used.
• It is the use of the Word Wall by students that
  increases learning and achievement.
• Learning Focused Schools 2005
• How do you use your word wall in instruction
  throughout the week?

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Word Wall Activities

• Intermediate Grades
• 10 Questions 2 versions Missing Persons
• Opposites Attract antonyms and
  synonyms Crabble Scrabble
• Vocabulary Lingo Bingo What am I?
• High School Vocabulary/Word Wall Activities
• Question Quiz Show Possible sentences
• Ticket to Leave/Enter 3-2-1
• Analogize First Word
• Visual Synetics Ripping Riddles
• Carousel Brainstorming Name that Word

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A Six-Step Process for Teaching Academic
Vocabulary

• Provide a description, explanation, or example of
  the new term.
• Ask students to restate the above in their own
  words.
• Ask students to construct a picture, symbol, or
  graphic representing the term or phrase.
• Engage students in activities that help them add
  to their knowledge of the terms in their
  notebooks.
• Ask students to discuss terms with one another.
• Involve students in games that allow them to play
  with the terms.
• Building Academic Vocabulary Teachers Manual
  2005

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Vocabulary Graphic Organizers

• Great website link on West Virginias Department
  of Education website
• http//wvde.state.wv.us/strategybank/vocabularygra
  phicorganizers.html
• Knowledge Rating Scale
• Frayer Model
• Word Detective
• Vocab-O-Gram
• Vocabulary Cluster
• Own the Word
• Verbal and Visual Word Association VVWA
• Concept Map
• Alphaboxes

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Vocabulary Strategies

• That Analyze, Classify, and Categorize Words
• Word Maps and Charts
• Frayer Model
• Concept Maps
• Semantic Mapping
• Semantic Feature Analysis (Matrix)
• Word/Picture Splash
• Word Sorts
• Vocabulary Overview Guide
• Give One! Get One!
• 5-3-1
• Circle Map
• Brainstorm Flexibility Style Web
• Brainstorm and Categorize
• Which Word Doesnt Belong
• Writing Definitions

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Vocabulary Strategies

• That use Context Cues
• Pre-reading Predictions
• Probable or Predictable Passages
• Story Pyramid
• Character Map
• Multi-sensory Strategy
• Shake It Up/Synonym Substitution
• Guess the Meaning
• Check the Expert
• Word Detective

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Vocabulary Strategies

• That Extend and Refine.
• Word Pyramid
• Act It Out
• Concentration
• Building Vocabulary through Suffixes
• Building Vocabulary through Prefixes
• Synonym Webs for Tired Words
• Vocabulary Concept Chain
• Draw a Picture or Diagram
• Question Quiz Show