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Academic Vocabulary

Academic Vocabulary. Reach Associates (Adapted from http:// www.ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Common-Core/Academic-Vocabulary-PowerPoint.pdf ). Academic Vocabular y. “… appear in a variety of content areas” www.achievethecore.org. Three Tiers of Words. Tier One words

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Academic Vocabulary

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  1. Academic Vocabulary Reach Associates (Adapted from http://www.ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Common-Core/Academic-Vocabulary-PowerPoint.pdf )

  2. Academic Vocabulary • “… appear in a variety of content areas” • www.achievethecore.org

  3. Three Tiers of Words • Tier One words • words of everyday speech • usually learned in the early grades • not considered a challenge to the average native speaker

  4. Three Tiers of Words • Tier Two words • general academic words • more likely to appear in written texts than in speech. • found across many types of texts • highly generalizable

  5. Three Tiers of Words • Tier Three words • domain-specific words • key to understanding a new concept • close ties to content knowledge • more common in informational texts • considered “hard” words for most readers • often explicitly definedrepeatedly used • heavily scaffolded

  6. Sorting Activity

  7. Sorting Activity

  8. Three Tiers of Words

  9. Access to Complex Text • Tier 3– Domain Specific • Receive the most instructional time and attention because they: • Are unfamiliar to most students • Contain ideas necessary to a new topic • Are important to specific subject area

  10. Access to Complex Text • Tier 2– General Academic • Not usually the focus of vocabulary instruction since they are not unique to a specific discipline. They are, however: • Less defined by context clues • Less likely to be defined within a text • Frequently encountered in all sorts of texts • Powerful because of their wide applicability

  11. Questions for Discussion • Why are Tier Two words so important to teach? • How can we ensure that academic vocabulary instruction (in context) is more frequent and systematic in our school?

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