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Vocabulary Instruction in the 21st Century

Low tech and high tech ways to teach explicitly teach vocabulary words to students.

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Vocabulary Instruction in the 21st Century

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  1. Vocabulary Instruction in the 21st Century: Visual Tools for Teachers and Students Jennifer Jones Lake Myra Elementary School Wake County Public Schools North Carolina Reading Conference . March 20, 2012

  2. Words are not just words. They are the nexus – the interface – between communication and thought. When we read, it is through words that we build, refine, and modify our knowledge. What makes vocabulary valuable and important is not the words themselves so much as…. the understandings they afford. Marilyn Jager Adams (2009, p.180)

  3. Three Tiers of Words (Beck, McKeown, Kucan, 2002, 2008, Common Core State Standards, 2011)

  4. People's knowledge of any topic is encapsulated in the terms they know that are relevant to the topic.

  5. Impact of Direct Vocabulary Instruction Marzano & Pickering (2005). Building Academic Vocabulary.

  6. Marzano 6-Step Process Tier 2 Words

  7. Tier 3 Words – Schoolwide Process

  8. Vocabulary Notebooks

  9. Marzano 6-Step Process

  10. Graphic Organizers

  11. Vocabulary Games Anchor Charts

  12. Beck’s Text Talk Lessons

  13. High Tech Tools Web 2.0 Tools

  14. Web Tool #1 Web Tool #1 – Word Clouds Word Clouds Wordle, Tagxedo, Image Chef, ABCya Word Clouds

  15. Web Tool #2 Web Tool #2 – Thesauruses & Dictionaries Online Thesauruses & Dictionaries Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus, WordSift, Visuwords, Wordnik

  16. Visual representations and connections

  17. Web Tool #3 – Search Engines Ask.com, Destiny

  18. Destiny School Library System

  19. Web Tool #4 – Static Creations & Presentations Big Huge Labs, Glogster, Smilebox

  20. Instead of a motivational poster, Create a vocabulary poster.

  21. Web Tool #5 –Dynamic Creations & Presentations Animoto, Tubes (You, School, Teacher), Prezi

  22. • YouTube Video https://wakeelementaryscience.pbworks.com/w/page/33255398/Video %20Links

  23. Web Tool #6 – Google Tools

  24. Thank You! Thank You! Jennifer Jones – jjones2@wcpss.net helloliteracy.blogspot.com

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