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Building Vocabulary

Building Vocabulary. Karen Jogan, Ph.D. kjogan@alb.edu PERU TESOL 2011. Stress. Stress timed rhythm Syllable timed rhythm. English is Stress -Timed!. Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went Her lamb was sure to go!. Salad Bowl.

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Building Vocabulary

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  1. Building Vocabulary Karen Jogan, Ph.D. kjogan@alb.edu PERU TESOL 2011

  2. Stress • Stress timed rhythm • Syllable timed rhythm Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  3. English is Stress-Timed! • Mary had a little lamb • Its fleece was white as snow • And everywhere that Mary went • Her lamb was sure to go! Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  4. Salad Bowl • Clap the syllables in the word • Organize vocabulary by number of syllables Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  5. Cucumber • Blue Cheese Dressing • Arugula • Cherry tomato • Onion • Avocado Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  6. Time to make a salad! • Clap ingredients in a salad • Can your partner identify the ingredients? Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  7. Your turn! • Make a list of 5 things that you are wearing today. • Clap for the syllables for your partner. • If your partner cannot guess, point to the item! Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  8. Minimal pairs Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  9. Bit Bat But beet Bite Bait Bought bet #1 or #2? Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  10. Walk Mill Park Go Walked Milk Parked goes #1 or #2? Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  11. Your turn! • Make a list of five pairs of words that your students have problems with. • Now, show your partner your list. • Let your partner tell you if the word you are saying is #1 or #2 Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  12. Bit bid But Bat Bought beet Bait Bite Boat Bet bed Pronunciation Bingo Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

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  14. Your turn! • What words do your students have difficulty “hearing”? • What strategies can you use to help with listening and pronunciation? Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  15. Instant Words • Dr. Eduard Fry (1993) ranked English words in frequency order. • For fluent reading, students should be able to recognize the most common words “instantly.” • The first 25 instant words make up 33% of all reading material in English. Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  16. Fry word lists and activities • http://www.uen.org/k-2educator/word_lists.shtml • http://www.candohelperpage.com/sightvocab_1.html

  17. Your turn! • WHY are these called “instant words”? • What strategies will you use to help your students learn Fry’s “instant words”? Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  18. Irregular words • Difficulty Factors • How the word “looks” and how it is actually pronounced • Which words requires more practice? • car • Although • Debt • want Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  19. What words are difficult for your students? Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  20. Strategies • Select words that are useful • Select upcoming words • Limit words introduced • Introduce similar words together Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  21. Similar words • Walk, talk, chalk • Give, live • Would, could, should • Brother, other, mother Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  22. You can’t pre-teach every hard word • Choose words carefully • Important to understand the text • Can’t be predicted in the text • Likely to be seen again • Useful • Idiomatic - frequent Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  23. Spell Words • Students • See and hear word • Say the word • Clap syllables • Spell it letter by letter • Repeat the word Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  24. Let’s practice • Conestoga • Portfolio • Through • Doubtful • Celebration • Comfortable Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  25. By spelling, students have to attend to all of the letters in the word! • Students reaffirm learning through reading the word Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  26. Word Banks and Walls • Personal collections of words • Teachers can create Word Walls Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  27. Word Study Notebooks • Collections of words • Sort words • Draw and label words • Write sentences using words studied Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  28. Sections of Notebook • Regular words • Irregular words • Homophones • Personal words Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  29. Graphic Organizers Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  30. Use words to write.. • Imagine that you are a weather forcaster. • Use these words in your report; • Today, rain, cloudy, north, seacoast, tomorrow, temperature Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  31. Word Games • Make a crossword puzzle • Act out words (pantomime) • Map words • Categorize, Classify, and Organize words into categories Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

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  33. Criss Cross Puzzle • http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp

  34. Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  35. Your turn! • Create a word map Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  36. Your turn! • Create a vocabulary game… • What words will you use? • What game will you create? Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  37. PAVE • Prediction • Association • Verification • Evaluation Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

  38. Thank you! Karen Jogan kjogan@alb.edu

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