As quickly as possible, list as many esoteric words as you can think of.

1. As quickly as possible, list as many esoteric words as you can think of.

2. Main Entry: es·o·ter·ic • Pronunciation: \ˌe-sə-ˈter-ik, -ˈte-rik\ • Function: adjective • Etymology: Late Latin esotericus, from Greek esōterikos, from esōterō, comparative of eisō, esō within, from eis into; akin to Greek en in — more at in • Date: circa 1660 • 1 a: designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone <a body of esoteric legal doctrine — B. N. Cardozo> b: requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group <esoteric terminology>; broadly: difficult to understand <esoteric subjects>2 a: limited to a small circle <engaging in esoteric pursuits> b:private, confidential <an esoteric purpose>3: of special, rare, or unusual interest <esoteric building materials> • — es·o·ter·i·cal·ly \-i-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

3. Example My aunt has a home that is full of esoteric, rare, paintings from all over the world.

4. Literacy Across the Curriculum What Works to Improve Reading Skills Session 7: Understanding Academic and Technical Vocabulary

5. Essential Questions: • Why is it important for students to improve their academic and technical vocabulary? • What strategies most effectively help students improve their vocabulary and why are they most effective?

6. How do our students feel?

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9. Standards Vocabulary Instruction Which vocabulary practices should we increase and which practices should we decrease?

10. Increase or Decrease • Time for reading • Use of varied, rich text • Looking up definitions as a single source of word knowledge • Assessments that ask students for single definitions • Opportunities for students to hear or use words in natural sentence contexts • Using context as a highly reliable tool for increasing comprehension • Finding the word or concept that will have the biggest impact on comprehension rather than “covering” many words superficially • Opportunities for inference

11. Multiple Levels of Understanding From Janet Allen’s Words, Words, Words.

12. Levels of Vocabulary

13. Teaching Vocabulary • What are the best ways to teach our kids new vocabulary or better yet, to correctly use vocabulary that they are already somewhat familiar with?

14. Read Aloud Description: • The teacher reads aloud short articles, brief passages of interesting material, or successive installments of a story, biography, or high-interest book in her subject area • Individual students, pairs, or small groups may also read passages aloud How Does it Work? Choosing the Text: • Explore important issues, surprising facts or experiences, or fascinating, funny, or thought-provoking problems • The text must be well-written, in clear, vivid language • It must be read with expression If Students do the Reading: • Provide time for them to practice • Could use “Readers’ Theater” • Could read into a tape recorder From Harvey Daniels’ and Steven Zemelman’s Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading.

15. During and After Reading: Knowledge Chart From Janet Allen’s Words, Words, Words.

16. After Reading: Foldables

17. Foldables • Many types • Many uses • Tactile/visual learners • Not a way to “color”—be careful about time

18. Layered Look Book • Stack three sheets of paper with the back sheet one inch higher than the front sheet. • Bring the bottom of both sheets upward and align the edges so that all of the layers are the same distance apart. • Fold the papers and crease well. • You are ready to add content

19. Miniature Matchbooks Miniature Matchbook Directions • Fold a sheet of paper in half like a hot dog. • Cut the sheet in half along the fold line. • Fold the two long strips in half like hot dogs, leaving one side ½ inch shorter than the other. • Fold the ½ inch tab over the shorter side of each strip. • Cut each of the two strips in half forming four halves. Then cut each half into thirds making 12 miniature match books. • (Optional) Glue the 12 small match books inside a hamburger fold (3 rows of 4 each).

20. Concept Cards • Description of Concept Cards • Concept cards help students learn vocabulary words. They are similar to flash cards, but result in students learning more than just definitions. Concept cards encourage students to look at words in context, study the connotations of words, and use the words in their own sentences. • Purpose for Using Concept Cards • Concept cards help students learn both general and technical vocabulary that they encounter in their readings. They encourage students to interact with new words. This results in greater retention of the words’ meanings, as well as an enhanced ability to use the words correctly in writing. • How to Use Concept Cards • 1. Identify words for concept cards. This can be done in a number of ways: • The teacher may choose to identify words from a text for which students will make concept cards. • Students can identify new words as they read for which they will make concept cards. (The teacher may want to indicate a minimum number of words for students to identify.) • The teacher can choose some words that he or she feels are particularly important, and then allow students to identify some of their own as they read. • 2. Write the word and the sentence from the text that introduces the word on the same side of an index card. Students do this as they read. When they encounter a word for which they will make a concept card, they stop, write down the word and sentence on an index card, and then continue reading. (If the teacher has identified words for students, the words should be given to students in the order in which they will appear in the text. Also helpful would be if the teacher indicated on which page in the text the students will encounter the words.) • 3. Complete the concept cards. After students have finished reading, they add the following information to the front of the concept card (where they have written the word and sentence from the text): Superordinate Idea: This goes on the same side of the index card as the word and sentence from the text. The superordinate idea chosen for a particular word should help the student classify or identify the word. • Students add the following information the back of the concept card where appropriate: • Definitions: Students first write their own definitions, based on their understanding of the word in context. They then check their definition by looking in a dictionary. If they feel that a change needs to be made to their definition based on the dictionary definition, they should make that change. • Characteristics or features: If appropriate, students write down a short list of characteristics for the words. Students might write synonyms and antonyms of a word, adjectives that describe a word, ideas associated with a word, etc. • Examples from the text and/or personal experiences: If appropriate, students provide examples of the words on their concept cards. These can be in written or pictorial form. • Personal sentences: Students writes sentences using the words.

21. Front of Card

22. Back of Card

23. Instead of copying definitions and memorizing them, have students to create a cohesive story with vocabulary words.