SJSD Vocabulary: The Six Step Process

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I am inspired

by...

I am passionate

about...

What was your favorite thing you did over the winter

break?If you were

stranded on an island, what three objects

would you take with you?

An adventure that you have

had in education

A Rainbow

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2nd Quarter Close Reading Share


Common Core

Fiction

Nonfiction

Stories, drama, poetry, realistic fiction, historical fiction

Follows an expository text structure rather than a narrative form; often includes print features, captions, tables of contents, indices, diagrams, glossaries, and tables. Biographies are NOT informational text.

THEN...

Literary Text

Informational Text

Stories, drama, poetry, realistic fiction, historical fiction

Follows an expository text structure rather than a narrative form; often includes print features, captions, tables of contents, indices, diagrams, glossaries, and tables. Biographies are NOT informational text.

NOW...

True or False

1. Reading 14 minutes a day means reading over 1,000,000 words a year.

2. Preschool or children’s books expose you to more challenging vocabulary than do prime-time adult TV shows.

3. Vocabulary can be learned through reading and talking.

Why teach Vocabulary?

Research shows a student with no direct vocabulary instruction, scores in the 50th percentile ranking.

We'll Forsake Our Ages and Pretend We Are Children by Brandon Christoper Warren

on Flickr

The same student…

… after specific content-area terms have been taught in a specific way, raises his/her comprehension ability to the 83rd percentile.

Early vocabulary knowledge is a predictor of comprehension in later years. (p. 2- Creating Robust Vocabulary)

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Read by sabeth718 on flickr

Background knowledge is more important to the understanding of reading than IQ.


1st graders from high SocioEconomicStatus know 2X the

words of kids from low SES. (Bringing Word to Life p.1)

Baca Buku by xiangxi on Flickr


Did you know?

In 1st and 2nd grade, children need to learn 800+ words per year, about 2 per day.

In 3rd grade, children need to learn between 2000-3000 new words each year, about 6-8 per day.

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Did you know?


Words…People’s knowledge of any topic is encapsulated in the terms they know that are relevant to the topic.

(Building Academic Vocabulary p.1)

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“Carving is appropriate for most green and blue slopes, and even some black slopes. However, if you try to carve through moguls, especially in packed powder or corn snow, you’re going to face plant.”

based on “Building Vocabulary: Teacher’s Manual” by Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering.

"Teaching specific terms in specific ways is the strongest action a teacher can take to ensure academic background."•(Building Academic Vocabulary p.1)

Why Teach Vocabulary?

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What Words to Teach

Amor de Palabra Word Love by Javier Volcan


Is there a list of grade-

specific words

teachers should be teaching?

Vocabulary by Akira ASKR

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Common Core State Standards Identify Three Tiers of Words

3

2

1Everyday Speech Words learned in the early grades - not a challenge to native speakers - not the focus of

discussion

General Academic Wordsmore likely to appear in

written text - subtle or precise ways to say simple things -

highly generalizable

Domain Specific Words- specific to content area - key to understanding new

concept within a text - common in informational

texts

Tier 1

• Words of everyday speech

• Usually learned in the early grades

• Not considered a challenge to the average native speaker

Tier 2

• Tier Two (general academic words) are far more likely to appear in written texts than in speech.

• They appear in all sorts of texts.

Tier 2Represent

subtle or precise ways to say relatively

simple things -- saunter instead of walk

Hanging On by Steve-h

Tier 3Tier Three words are specific to a domain or field of study.

lava, piano, carburetor, legislature, circumference, aorta

Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan (2002, 2008)

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Tier 3Tier Three words are...

o key to understanding a new concept.

o far more common in informational texts than in literary texts.


Tier 3

Often explicitly defined by the author of a text, repeatedly used, and heavily scaffolded ie: made a part of a glossary.


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Tier 2

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Tier 2

• Tier 2 words are referred to in the Common Core State Standards as “general academic” words.

• Could be words that describe more specifically or that elevate tone, like writing mention instead of tell, or fortune instead of luck.

• They are the words that are used to discuss, persuade, and explain across disciplines, words like argument, significance, characteristic, and question.

Tier 2 Take Aways

• Kids do not learn the same words at the same rate

• There are no grade specific word lists

• Choosing words can be quite arbitrary

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• Chosen words need to be used in a variety of ways

• What makes vocabulary valuable and important is not the words themselves so much as the understandings they afford

(Marilyn Jager Adams (2009, p. 180), Common Core Appendix A)

More Tier 2 Take Aways

Reflect: Circle: What question is still circling in

your mind?

Square: What are two things that square with your beliefs about vocabulary?

Triangle: What are three points you learned today?

Circle, Square, Triangle


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vocabulary?

Blooms Taxonomy and SJSD Vocabulary Acquisition

Let's practice!

Purpose: Identify Tier 2 words in Bruce Neel's

"What a Glorious Nation We Live In"

Our Word List for the Day is taken from the essay,

"What a Glorious Nation We Live In" Author: Bruce Neel

How Well Do I Know These Words?

instill gobble

reparations trampling

accommodate impassioned

plea stabilizing

compensation contributions

from Words, Words, Words by Janet Allen

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I0el7Ig5cNQlbhBTh2lDp-UrN0oIv4mIvmmHybA_KoI/edit

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A Picture Walk


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Step 1: Typical Classroom Activities

•"How Well Do I Know These Words?"

•Picture Walko compensation

•Use Context Clues to Describe the Wordo accommodate

•Root Word and Affixo impassioned

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Define Me

For each word, compare and contrast the examples with the counterexamples and write a definition.

TramplingExamples: Counterexamples:crush, pulverize, surrender, lose,annihilate, ambush, give-up, aid, helpoverpower

Definition:when something ruins something else

PRACTICE!

Stabilizing

Examples: Counterexamples:steady, balance, equalize, change, vary, shake,support, secure weaken, wobble

Definition:

Step 2: Typical Classroom Activities• Students repeat the word.

• Teacher can define it or question students about the meaning of the word.

• Define Me!

• Teacher describes the word in context, student writes own definition.

• Add to a Vocabulary Notebook

• Concept Circles

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Find or create a cartoon to depict the word.

to eat hurriedly and noisily

cram, devour, gorge, gulp,scarf, stuff

Hurry up and gobble up the cookies before your mom comes home!When I am hungry I tend to gobble up my food.

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gobble

Remember...

Model... Model... Model!!!


•Find or create comic/drawing

•Frayer Model

•Dramatize the term

•Graphic organizers

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Instilling

Similes and Metaphors

Simile: Instilling a love for reading is like building a foundation in sand.

Metaphor:

Google Docs Vocabulary

Students can use digital media to assemble a list of word meanings and examples in context.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12g03OcQF-rIsv7xhh0980amRXa3K0Ko9W-zkOaErXEQ/edit


• Create similes and metaphors

• Google doc definitions

• Visuwords

• Visual Thesaurus Vocab Grabber

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Games

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$25,000 Pyramid

Side A

•gobble•reparations•trampling•accommodate•instill

Side B

•impassioned•plea•stabilizing•compensation•contributions

Motivational Posters


Step 5: Typical Classroom Activities•Student Interaction and Discussion about words

oThink-Pair-ShareoClock PartnersoOne Minute Review

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Blooms Taxonomy and SJSD Vocabulary Acquisition

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What are some ways students

can independently

apply their knowledge of

words?

Step 6 - Typical Classroom ActivitiesSilent Chalk Talk

SJSD Vocabulary: The Six Step Process

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