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Voracious Vocabulary Instruction Teaching General Academic and Content- Specific Vocabulary Across the Disciplines Presented by Laura Heflin

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Voracious Vocabulary Instruction

Teaching General Academic and Content-Specific Vocabulary Across the Disciplines

Presented by Laura Heflin

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Importance of VocabularyContributes to comprehension, fluency, and

achievement.Research shows high correlation between

vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension

Academic language is difficult to learn as it is not used in everyday language, but it is necessary for accessing academic content

Important to dual-code words in memory with print and nonlinguistic forms (visual and sensory)

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3 Tiers of WordsTier 3 – Highly specialized, subject-specific; low

occurrences in texts; lacking generalization◦ E.g., lava, aorta, legislature, circumference

Tier 2 –Abstract, general academic (across content areas); encountered in written language; high utility across instructional areas◦ E.g., vary, relative, innovation, accumulate, surface,

layerTier 1 – Basic, concrete, encountered in

conversation/ oral vocabulary; words most student will know at a particular grade level◦ E.g., clock, baby, Common Core State Standards, Appendix A, page 33

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Why are “academic words” important?They are critical to understanding academic texts.They appear in all sorts of texts.They require deliberate effort to learn, unlike Tier 1

words.They are far more likely to appear in written texts

than in speech.They often represent subtle or precise ways to say

otherwise relatively simple things.They are seldom heavily scaffolded by authors or

teachers, unlike Tier 3 words. Common Core State Standards,

Appendix A, page

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Selecting Words to TeachTeaching fewer words in depth is more

effective than teaching many words at the surface level

Focus should be on words that are key to comprehension and that are frequently used by adults in everyday conversation, reading, and writingCurious, gazing, mysterious, stingy,

scrumptious, drowsy

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Choosing wordsJose avoided playing the ukulele.Which word would you choose to pre-teach?

Which word?

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AvoidedWhy?Verbs are where the action is

Teach avoid, avoided, avoidsLikely to see it again in grade-level textLikely to see it on assessmentsWe are going to start calling these useful

words “Tier 2 words”Why not ukulele?

Rarely seen in printRarely used in stories or conversation or

content-area information

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How do I determine that a word is TIER 2?Word Is this a

generally useful word?

Does the word relate to other words and ideas that students know or have been learning?

Is the word useful in helping students understand text?

If you answer “yes” to all three questions, it is a Tier 2 word. If not, it is probably a Tier 3 word.

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What about Tier 3 Words?Words that are associated with specific

domains or content areas should be taught as they are encountered, usually during content area instructionMorpheme, peninsula, similes, nucleus,

protons

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How Many Words?In school settings, students can be explicitly

taught a deep understanding of about 300 words each year.

Divided by the range of content students need to know (e.g., math, science, history, literature), of these 300–350 words, roughly 60 words can be taught within one subject area each year.

It is reasonable to teach thoroughly about eight to ten words per week. (Chall, 1996)

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Implications for InstructionTeach fewer words.Focus on important Tier 2 (high utility,

cross-domain words) to know & remember.

Simply provide Tier 3 (domain-specific, technical) words with a definition.

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Vocabulary Resources

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WordleCreates a word cloud to indentify key

vocabulary in a digital text

http://www.wordle.net/create Gettysburg Address

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/gettyb.asp

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WordsiftGreat pre-reading activity for digital or inputted textSorts words in text according to difficultyIdentifies academic words and most-represented

wordsShows a collected of related images, a word map,

and lists sentences from the text that present the word in different contexts

http://wordsift.com/

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3757754

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Tag Galaxy

Creates a 3-D orbiting galaxy of words and their associations. You click on a word/globe to populate images of that word from Flicker

http://taggalaxy.de/ Eg. Type “fossil”

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GlossaryFrayer ModelDefinition, use in a sentence, explanation of

importance, drawing, synonym, antonym, part of speech

Teacher can provide for unit/academic vocabulary

Students can create to deepen understanding of spelling words

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Teacher Provided Glossary Entry

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Student Created Glossary Entry

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FlashcardstashDictionary based website Sign up for a free account to create and store

word lists to support written textCan access definitions, example sentences from

context , and pictures to support the wordCreate a set of digital flash cards to practice the

words with no-nonsense games and quizzes.

http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com/2011/07/wordstash-is-online-vocabulary-building.html

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PodcastsUse video (eg. Flip Camera) to define word, use it in

context, explain its importance, and provide oral practice activities

Teacher can create to introduce or reinforce vocabulary

Students can create to take ownership of their learning and access higher-level thinking skills

Can be published online to extend learning beyond the classroom

Research shows students who had access to podcasts were more motivated to learn vocabulary and indicated that podcasts helped them learn new vocabulary

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Podcast ExamplesGeneral Vocabulary Podcast – unanimous- LL

Cool J http://www.sesamestreet.org/play#media/video_82f54b85-b421-4311-969b-56c693b38fa2

Math Podcast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pmk1xLv8w0

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Free RiceProvides a word with 4 synonym choicesAdjusts difficulty based on your responseCorrect answers donate 10 grains of rice to

needy countries

http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1426

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Other ResourcesCommon Core Math Vocabulary Cards to Print Out

http://www.burke.k12.nc.us/curriculum/elementary/Pages/Common-Core-Resources.aspx

Common Core Math Vocabulary Practice by Grade/Standardhttp://www.spellingcity.com/math-vocabulary.html English/Language Gameshttp://www.vocabulary.co.il/ Scientific Inquiryhttp://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=5601730

Wordia- videos to make personal connectionshttp://www.wordia.com/

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Create Your Own PodcastI have vocabulary words and visuals for social

studies, science, reading, and mathDefine wordUse it in contextExplain its importance or useProvide oral practice activitiesThink about how you could teach a

vocabulary word and provide students with a visual to create their own podcast as reinforcement of their learning