9th GRADE VOCAB

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9th GRADE VOCAB
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• Researchers have stated that vocabulary
  deficiencies are a primary cause of academic
  failure in grades 3 through 12 (Baumann and
  Kameenui 1991 Stanovich 1986 Becker 1977).
  These researchers profess that direct and
  explicit instruction of a set number of
  vocabulary words will improve academic success in
  all content areas. Stahl and Fairbanks (1986)
  suggest that teaching students 350 words each
  year may improve learning by as much as 10 to 30.

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VOCAB FINAL PREP

• Over the course of the year, we have taken a look
  at five vocabulary activities designed for the
  various ways a person learns flashcards,
  sentence writing, pictographs, vocab squares, and
  quiz a partner.

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VOCAB FINAL PREP

• Your final task is to choose the study method
  that you found most effective for you. This
  weekend, you are to then employ your chosen
  strategy to demonstrate word understanding.

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VOCAB FINAL PREP

• Remember, you get out what you put in. Now, its
  time for me to back that up. If you are willing
  to put in the work this weekend, you will be
  rewarded on Tuesdays final.

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• Focus on words you havent fully embedded into
  memory, use 1 strategy or some combination of
  strategy to demonstrate word recognition. For
  every 20 ideal sentences or 20 pictographs or 10
  squares or 2 quizzes (10 qs each) you will earn
  a vocab skip. Earn up to 10 skips on the final.
  

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Study Strategy SENTENCE WRITING

• Building and recognizing context and connotation

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• Poor- The man was abominable for what he did.
• Ok- The abominable man knocked the old lady down.
• Ideal- The mans actions were abominable, for he
  first stole a gun then used it to hold up a bank.

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Study Strategy PICTOGRAPHS/SKETCHWORDS

• An activity for the visual learner

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PICTO GRAPH

• A pictograph could be defined as a written
  picturethat is a picture that has a word (a
  vocab word) written into the illustration the
  key concept is that a visual learner can not only
  see the image but the word as well and make a
  connection between the word and the the content
  of the image

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PICTO GRAPH EXAMPLE
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Study Strategy VOCAB SQUARES

• Ms. Ambrosinis favorite whole word and making
  connections activity

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Word clue (synonym)
Picture Clue
VOCAB WORD
Ideal Sentence (use it in another form)
Reminds me of
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Devoted, dedicated
PIOUS
The mans piousness was evident when he showed
his dedication to the cause by donating time and
money.
Reminds me of A pious priest