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1. What’s Hot* What’s NotVocabulary!*popular, in demand, sought-after, in favor; fashionable, in vogue, all the rage; informal big, in, now, hip, trendy, cool What’s Hot, What’s Not Preconference 2nd Annual Literacy Summit; 14th Annual TAMU-CC Reading Conference April 15, 2010 Dr. Sherrye Dee Garrett Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

2. Vocabulary’s “hotness”

3. WHAT DOES RESEARCH SAY?

4. Handbook of Reading Research III(2000) • Giving students a list of words to look up and memorize does not lead to real understanding. • Students should be active in developing their understanding of words. • Students should personalize word meaning. • Students should be immersed in words. • Students should build on multiple sources of information to learn words through repeated exposures.

5. National Reading Panel(2000) • Combined vocabulary with comprehension • Based on 50 research studies • Vocabulary can be taught directly and indirectly • Students can learn incidentally through wide reading • Students should be actively involved in reading

6. General agreement(Blachowicz, Fisher and Ogle, 2006) • Vocabulary predicts comprehension • Gap in vocabulary between economically disadvantaged and advantaged children persists through school • Critical factor in success of English-learners • Affects comprehension differently in different kinds of texts

7. More recent research • Flynt and Brozo (2008) cite studies • Scott, Jamieson-Noel/Asselin (2003) • 6% of school time centered on vocabulary instruction • 1.4% of instruction directed to developing vocabulary knowledge • Dunn, Bonner, Huskee (2007) • Comprehension percentile scores increased by 30 points with meaningful vocabulary instruction (from 50th percentile)

8. Definition and Assessment • Beck, McKeown, and Kucan (2002) • Tier 1: High frequency words that don’t need to be taught • Tier 2: Words used by mature readers and writers • Tier 3: Rare words specific to a particular content area

9. NAEP Reading Framework 2009 • “Meaning of many key words in a passage depends on an interaction of word meaning and passage meaning.” • “Measurement of word meaning by NAEP should be integrated with the measurement of passage comprehension.” (p. 32)

10. NAEP Considerations for selection vocabulary items • Follow Beck, McKeown, & Kucan (2002) Tier 2 Words: • Characterize vocabulary of mature language users; written, not oral • Label generally familiar and broadly understood concepts • Necessary for understanding local part of context and linked to central ideas • Found in grade-level materials (p. 34)

11. SO, WHAT DO WE DO?

12. Areas of vocabulary instruction • Word meaning • Word study • Word consciousness • Wide reading

13. Word study • Context • Structural analysis • Roots and affixes (prefixes and suffixes) • References • Dictionary • Thesaurus

14. TRIED AND TRUE ACTIVITIES

15. Some word meaning and word study strategies • Knowledge rating scale • Four square • Webbing • Concept of definition map • Semantic continuum

16. Knowledge rating scale

17. Four square

18. Webbing eight legs spider tarantula lives in the southwest

19. Concept of definition map What group is it? What is it like? arachnid eight legs What is it not? spins webs insect spider two body parts tarantula black widow trapdoor What are examples?

20. LET’S SEE HOW YOU DO!

21. Concept of Definition MapWords for the center circle… Democracy Mammal Parallelogram Desert Island Dictatorship Novel (literature) University Tree Grocery store

22. Concept of definition map What group is it? What is it like? What is it not? What are examples?

23. Semantic continuum scorching freezing frigid sizzling hot cold Colder Hotter Room temperature

24. You try…Your midpoint word is • Say • Think • Want (verb) • Like (verb) • Nice • Interesting • Intelligent • Happy • Walk • Pretty

25. Semantic continuum Midpoint Word

26. A SPECIAL LOOK AT CONTENT VOCABULARY

27. Content vocabulary…. • New words for familiar concepts Philately • New words for unfamiliar concepts Phototropism • Meanings for words central to instruction Dictatorship • Words that are required for later instruction Diameter

28. WORD STUDY ACTIVITIESPOWER AND CONTROL!

29. Roots and Affixes –Activities that make sense! • Target word expansion • “Daffy” Dictionary • Source-based vocabulary

30. Target word: Phototropism Noun tropism - an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source reaction, response — a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age” • ergotropism - an affinity for work • geotropism - an orienting response to gravity • heliotropism - an orienting response to the sun • (source: www.thefreedictionary.com)

31. Target word expansion, cont. • meteortropism- an effect of climate on biological processes (as the effect on joint pains etc.) • neurotropism- an affinity for neural tissues(viruses invade tissues) • phototropism - an orienting response to light • trophotropism- an orienting response to food • (source: www.thefreedictionary.com)

32. Daffy Dictionary: How does it work? • Pick a prefix, a root, and a suffix • Put together to make a new work • KEY: don’t try to recreate known words; making up new words is a low-anxiety activity

33. “Daffy” DictionaryOne from column A, one from column B, one from column C

34. Source-based Vocabulary • Select words with Latin roots from a text the students are reading • Prepare activities that use the roots in a variety of forms • Have students work in groups to discuss (and hear) the words.

35. Thank you, J.K.Rowling

36. JUST FUN!

37. Word consciousness ideas • Word puzzles • Crossword puzzles • Word search • Word wackies • Figurative language • Idiomatic expressions

38. Fun with words! • Clipped words • Portmanteau words • Eponyms • Toponyms • Flower words • Animal words • Phobia words • “Killing” words

39. Clipped words • Bus • Omnibus • Cab • Cabriolet • Iron • Flatiron • Movie • Moving picture • Wig • Periwig

40. Portmanteau words: Blended(large suitcase that opens into two equal parts) • Break + lunch • Brunch • Chuckle + snort • Chortle • Fourteen nights • Fortnight • Motor + hotel • Motel • Television + marathon • Telethon

41. Eponyms: From individuals’ names • America • Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant came shortly after Columbus • Diesel • Rudolf Diesel, German auto engineer • Frisbee • Wm. Frisbie, pie company owner. Yale students threw tin pans • Leotard • Jules Leotard, French acrobat designed it as trapeze costume • Maverick • Samuel Maverick, Texan didn’t brand his cattle • Saxophone • Anton Sax, Belgian instrument maker. Combined clarinet reed and oboe fingering

42. Toponyms: Words from place names • Bedlam - St. Mary of Bethlehem, England, psychiatric asylum • Cashmere - Kashmir, India • Cologne - Cologne, Germany • Denim - Nimes, France (serge de Nimes) • Jeans - Genoa • Tangerine - Tangier, Morocco

43. Flowers from individual names • Begonia - Michel Begon, Gov. of Santo Domingo • Camelia - George Kamel, European Jesuit missionary • Dahlia - Andreas Dahl, Swedish botanist • Magnolia - Pierre Magnol, French botanist • Wisteria • Caspar Wistar, American anatomist • Zinnia • J.G. Zinn, German botanist

44. Animal words • Canine • Feline • Equine • Bovine • Ovine • Porcine • Lupine • Vulpine • Ursine • Piscine

45. Phobia words: “fear of” • Heights • Acrophobia • Spiders • Arachnophobia • Ideas • Ideophobia • Birds • Ornithophobia • The number 13 • Triskaidekaphobia

46. “Killing” words • Homicide • Matricide • Fratricide • Regicide • Pesticide • Fungicide • Hosticide • Avicide

47. Where do you find great vocabulary? In lots and lots of books!

48. TO THE BOOKS!

49. Final thoughts… HAVE FUN!