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Word Up! Vocabulary Instruction to Increase Everyone’s Chances for Success

Word Up! Vocabulary Instruction to Increase Everyone’s Chances for Success. Dr. Rachel Holler Dr. Suzanne Laverick-Stone April 24, 2012. SWBAT…. Increase content area achievement by infusing vocabulary and background knowledge instruction into daily lessons

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Word Up! Vocabulary Instruction to Increase Everyone’s Chances for Success

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  1. Word Up! Vocabulary Instruction to Increase Everyone’s Chances for Success Dr. Rachel Holler Dr. Suzanne Laverick-Stone April 24, 2012

  2. SWBAT… • Increase content area achievement by infusing vocabulary and background knowledge instruction into daily lessons • Assessment: Teachers will incorporate explicit vocabulary instruction, literacy opportunities, and engagement strategies into daily lesson plans. • District Expectation: • All teachers are literacy teachers • You are the expert readers and writers in your discipline

  3. We’ve All Been There… Student: Which definition do you want? Teacher: The one that fits the context. Student: So, can we just put the first one? The shortest one? Teacher: Put the one that makes sense. Student: None of them make sense! What’s behind the eye is more important than what is in front of the eye. It is the knowledge that students already have in their heads that is so critical to their reading of most texts. Many of our students, however, do not have the language in their heads to match the content we are trying to study together. Finding ways to build that background knowledge and give them some of the needed language through video clips, poetry, music, art, essays, news articles, interviews, or artifacts helps students then move into independent reading of texts based on other times, places, and events. (Janet Allen: Word Matters, 2001)

  4. Walk this way… Think of literacy as a spine; it holds everything together. The branches of learning connect to it, meaning that ALL core content teachers have a responsibility to teach literacy. Vicki Phillips & Corina Wong Gates Foundation

  5. Hatsumon of the Day How is it possible to effectively teach my content including the vocabulary and background knowledge in the time allotted????? THINK…DISCUSS

  6. Advanced Organizer…Yes/No/Why Studies show that in typical classrooms, there is a paucity of vocabulary instruction. Looking up words in the dictionary and using written context to figure out words are two very effective vocabulary instruction strategies. Vocabulary experts recommend wide reading of fiction and non-fiction texts as one effective way to teach vocabulary. Two other effective ways include direct teaching of important individual words and teaching independent word learning strategies.

  7. Advanced Organizer…Yes/No/Why It’s best to wait for the teachable moment to teach vocabulary. If all we do is increase the volume of reading, we’ll be okay. Fostering word consciousness (word play, word choice in writing, sensitivity to word parts) is effective vocabulary instruction.

  8. Combat Word Poverty… • Vocabulary Gap: Children enter school with different levels of vocabulary. (Hart & Risley, 1995) • The study found that by the time children are 3 years old, parents in less economically favored circumstances had said fewer words in their cumulative monthly vocabularies than the children in the most economically advantaged families in the same period of time. • Cumulative Vocabulary: • Children from professional families: 1100 words • Children from working class families: 700 words • Children from welfare families: 500 words

  9. Heu*ris*tic n. 1-2-3-4-5 To solve the many complex literacy issues facing today’s schools, educators need a powerful __________________.

  10. Frayer Model for Words/Concepts

  11. Different kinds of vocabulary The Three Tiers of Vocabulary http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/cbl/images/CBL_Documents/3tiervocab.pdf

  12. Are you “Tiering” Up? What words will you teach tomorrow?

  13. Apply… • What can you do every day to ensure that your students will close the vocabulary gap? • Back to the hatsumon: What do you think? Has your opinion changed? • How is it possible to effectively teach • my content including the vocabulary • and background knowledge in the • time allotted?????

  14. Academic Language Oath “I will ensure that EVERY single student in my class speaks, and often also writes, at least one meaningful academic sentence EVERY day!”

  15. What is one strategy that you will implement in your classroom this week?

  16. Resources • http://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/182VocabularyTiers.pdf • Anita Archer’s SLANT strategy: http://www.scoe.org/pub/htdocs/archer-videos.html Look at 7th Grade Active Participation video • http://Nhd.heinle.com

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