Building Student Vocabulary

The ESL Team:

•Cathy Jacobs - cathy.jacobs•Christina Mahar – christina.mahar•Betsy Schneider – elisabethr.schneider

BICS & CALP (Jim

Cummins) BICS: Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (social

English)Develops within 6 months to 2 years in US

CALP: Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (academic English)

Develops 5 to 7 years, BUT if students have no priorschooling it can take up to 10 years to catch up to peers.

Cummins, James. T homas & Collier (1995) http://www.everythingesl.net

Concepts Linked to students’ background experiences

Sound Effect

Links between Past Learning & New Learning:

Graphic Organizers- Using Graphic Organizers

KWL – Using KWLQuestioning-

Drawing Inferences and Generating Questions

Develop Key Vocabulary & Academic Language:

Discovery Ed. Curriculum AlignmentGlossary Terms

SchoolTube VideoNC WiseOwl-Searchasaurus

QWiki: Squash

Building Background & Vocabulary

SIOP Strategy: “I have…, Who has…?” This is a strategy that promotes vocabulary

while simultaneously requires student engagement.

Adaptable to any content area. Student created and student led.

Now let’s play!

SIOP Strategy: Personal Dictionaries Created by students

as an individual vocabulary and spelling resource

Students color code dictionaries based upon subject and content

School wide system with total faculty involvement

SIOP Strategy: Four Corners Vocabulary

A graphic organizer that makes vocabulary words comprehensible

Includes the word, a definition, a sentence, a picture and ELL students can translate the word as well

See handouts on tables

SIOP Strategy: Catch PhraseVocabulary becomes a game!- Students are given a card with an academic

vocabulary word written on it. - Smaller words in the corner are the words that

students CAN’T say when they are trying to describe the word.

- This game is rigorous because they have to think about how to describe the concept in a clear way while avoiding the use of some words.

NOW YOU TRY! Mammal

animal

Describe this word

Don’t use this word in the description.

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN!

Graffiti Write!

Questions & Survey