Vocabulary Instruction

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Vocabulary Instruction
Vocabulary Instruction
Created by Amy Okafor May 06 Revised for 318 by
Abel Reference - www.fcrr.org/staffpresentations/M
arcia/NA/vocabulary_pineview.ppt
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• 5 BIG IDEAS
• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension

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• Vocabulary---

The words students need to know in order to
communicate effectively.
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• Did you know?According to Hart Risley, l995
  (and TEA)Words Heard in an Hour
• Poverty  615 wordsMiddle Class  1251
  wordsProfessional 2153 words

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Differences In Vocabulary Starts Early

• Average child from a welfare family hears about 3
  million words a year vs. 11 million from a
  professional family.
• By age 4, the gap grows to 13 vs. 45 mil.
• Children from a professional family spoke more
  words than parents in a welfare family

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Ways Words Are Learned

• By reading a lot
• Through multiple exposures (USE)
• Through explicit instruction
• Teaching words
• Analyzing word parts
• Exploring words

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Closing the Vocabulary Gap
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How many words should teachers teach per day to
help close the gap?

• In 1st and 2nd grade, about 2 per day.
• 3rd grade onward, about 8 per day.
• Remember - students already behind by 1st grade
  need more intense and ambitious focus to help
  them catch up!
• Research shows typical child needs to encounter a
  word about 12 times before they know it

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Choosing Words For Vocabulary Instruction
Words Matter
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Molly avoided playing the ukulele. Which
word would you choose to pre-teach?
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avoided
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Avoided

• Why?
• Verbs are where the action is
• Teach avoid, avoided, avoids,.
• Likely to see it again in grade-level text
• Likely to see it on a test
• Why not ukulele?
• Rarely seen in print
• Rarely used in stories or conversation or
  content-area information (discuss, not teach it)

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• Tier 1 basic (clock, door, food)
• TEACH
• Tier 2 high frequency for mature
  (coincidence, absurd, industrious)
• Tier 3 infrequent (isotope, peninsula)

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Deepening Childrens Understanding of Words
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Games!!!

• Charades
• Act Out words
• Word Bee
• Work together to define
• Word Substitution
• Team mates replace a target word in a sentence
• Word Guess
• Guess the word with fewest clues possible

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Venn Diagram
Cat
Dog
meows
barks
fur tail
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Use New Words in context
What boisterous students! It is nice to get away
from all that noise! I like the bright strong
vivid color on your dress. How generous of you
to give me your last apple.
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Word Study

• Build word parts
• un-happi-ness hypogeal
• Teach multiple meanings, idioms, expressions
  (Amelia Bedelia)
• Teach children to use references (thesaurus)

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Source http//otra.texasreading.org

• Did you know?

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Lots of Reading improves voc rdg Class Rank
Daily Reading Words / year
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Vocabulary Links

• Prefix/Suffix Game http//www.harcourtschool.com/a
  ctivity/book_buddy/skill/3_prefix.html
• ESL support http//www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishco
  rner/vocabulary/vocabulary.html
• Vocabulary Analogies
• http//www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html
• Interactive Adventure Stories
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/7_9entry/7_9.s
  html
• Mad libs
• http//www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/Reading
  Brain.html
• sample try it here click play
• http//www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/Games/G
  ame.html?GameNameMadLibsSchoolRulesBrainreading
  GameNumber1ColorFFFFFF
• Which word parts to teach http//www.nevadareading
  .org/resources/vocab/vocab_parts.pdf