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Philadelphia Empowerment SchoolsPhiladelphia Empowerment Schoolsin collaboration with VoyagerUin collaboration with VoyagerU

April 24, 2009


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Agenda

Skill focus Continued VocabularyDevelopment Current TeacherPractices

Planning and Practice using

Philadelphia Schools Empowermenttools

Reflection and Observation


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Agenda

Successes and Challenges Data analysis review Skill focus Vocabulary

Development

Planning and Practice usingPhiladelphia SchoolsEmpowerment tools

Reflection and Observation

Delivery Plan


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Circle of Action


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Successes, Challenges, &SOLUTIONS

Differentiated Instruction Academic Rigor Data Analysis and Improvement for

schools to improve students readingperformance

Increase effectiveness regardingsuccessful instructional strategies

Provide specifications andopportunities for schools to improvestudents comprehension performance

Increase communication between allparties


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Session Goal

Build the knowledge and skillsnecessary to share and

disseminate vocabularystrategies, so that every teacherprovides quality instruction to

students


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Taking on UnfamiliarRoles

Middle School and High Schoolteachers must take on a newand often unfamiliar role.

how to provide quality readingand writing instruction to meetliteracy expectations

instructional strategies toassist struggling readers.

Reading to Achieve: A GovernorsGuide to Adolescent Literacy


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Implications for Practice

1. Adolescence is not too late to intervene. Interventions dobenefit older students.

2. Older students with reading difficulties benefit frominterventions focused at both the word and the text level.

3. Older students with reading difficulties benefit fromimproved knowledge of word meanings and concepts.

4. Word-study interventions are appropriate for olderstudents struggling at the word level.

5. Teachers can provide interventions that are associatedwith positive effects.


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Implications for PracticeContinued

6. Teaching comprehension strategies to older students withreading difficulties is beneficial.

7. Older readers average gains in reading comprehensionare somewhat smaller than those in other reading andreading-related areas studied.

8. Older students with learning disabilities (LD) benefit fromreading intervention when it is appropriately focused.

9. To learn more about instructional conditions that couldclose the reading gap for struggling readers, we will needstudies that provide instruction over longer periods of time and assess outcomes with measures more like thoseschools use to monitor reading progress of all students.


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Recommendation:Provide explicit

vocabulary instruction Teachers should provide

students with explicit

vocabulary instruction both aspart of reading and languagearts classes and as part of content-area classes such as

science and social studies.Through: Direct Instruction Indirect Instruction


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How to Carry Out theRecommendation

1. Dedicate a portion of the regularclassroom lesson to explicitvocabulary instruction.

2. Use repeated exposure to new

words in multiple oral and writtencontexts and allow sufficientpractice sessions.

3. Give sufficient opportunities touse new vocabulary in a variety of contexts.

4. Provide students with strategies

to make them independent


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High School Plan

Refer to your plan What is the vocabulary model? What does it look like in the

classroom?


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So Which Words To Teach

Useful words (Tier 1) Clock, baby, happy

High-frequency words (Tier 2)

Coincidence, absurd, industrious Specific domain words (Tier 3)

Isotope, lathe, peninsula

From: Bringing Words to Life (Beck, McKeown&Kucan)


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Academic Vocabulary

Specialized high utilityvocabulary words used in theclassroom

Includes high-use academicwords (i.e., summarize,analyze, specify, formulate,evaluate, respond)

Includes the vocabulary,grammar, and syntax necessary to completely

discuss a topicPRJ III Word List


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College PlacementVocabulary

Specialized high utility vocabularywords used on college placementtests

Includes high-use academic words necessary for college success (i.e.,abject, bourgeois, conjecture,locuacious)

Includes the vocabulary, grammar,and syntax necessary tocompletely understand the word

meaning


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Career, Technology, andContent Vocabulary

Specialized high utility vocabularywords used specific to content andcareers

Includes high-use academic words necessary for job success (i.e.,accurate, column, exact, freehand)

Includes the vocabulary, grammar,

and syntax necessary tocompletely understand the wordmeaning and application


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Effective Vocabulary Teaching

Strategies Students Must Learnfor Discovering Word Meaning


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Procedures for AnalyticalVocabulary Instruction

Present the word

Explain the meaning/function

Display the word

Have students create a phonologicalrepresentation

Page 5: Apply in CoreVocabulary Development


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Procedures forAnalytical Vocabulary

Instruction

Give examples of the word indifferent contexts

Have students interact withthe word

Have students see the wordand say the word

Provide practice with the word

Page 5: Apply in CoreVocabulary Development


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Explicit Teaching of WordMeanings

Using Context Using Word Parts Using Dictionaries CPR

Context Part of Word Resource


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Its not what you say or do thatultimately mattersIt is what youget the students to do as a result

of what you said and did thatcounts

Archer, Feldman & Kinsella,

2008


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Techniques for BuildingWord Knowledge

Involve students inthinking aboutword meanings

Involve students inmakingassociations amongwords Semantic Features

Analysis Semantic Mapping Frayer Model


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Seven Categories of WordPlay Gallery Walk


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Word Games

HISTO BLUFF BACK WORD Charades Pictionary Scattegories

Handout Word Games


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Agenda

Introduction to the Philadelphia

Empowerment School and VoyagerUFramework

Data analysis review Skill focus Vocabulary Development Planning and Practice using


Reflection and Observation Delivery Plan


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Empowerment Tools

Working in teams, identify: Vocabulary practices to support

items in the Indicator column

of the walk log What are items that may be

evident to reflect indicators are inplace?


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Agenda

Introduction to the PhiladelphiaEmpowerment School and VoyagerUFramework

Data analysis review Skill focus Vocabulary Development Planning and Practice using


Reflection and Observation Delivery Plan


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Reflections

What are some things that youwant to share at your schools?

What are some things that you

currently see in classrooms thatyou can reinforce?

How can you encourage the useof stronger vocabulary lessonsusing the current core program?

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