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Mastering Vocabulary: Essential Strategies for Academic Success

Enhance vocabulary instruction with effective strategies like pre-teaching key words, focusing on high-utility terms, and utilizing tiered word levels for optimal comprehension. Explore vocabulary extension through morphological analysis and context clues.

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Mastering Vocabulary: Essential Strategies for Academic Success

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  1. Vocabulary Instruction The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing. ~John Dunne

  2. Vocabulary Instruction • An effective teacher will preview text that students are going to read and pre-teach academic and domain-specific words that students must understand in order to comprehend that text. • Content-area vocabulary instruction will serve students best if it focuses on words that students will see often and across several subjects.

  3. Which words? • Words needed to fully comprehend the text • Words likely to appear in future texts from any discipline • Words that are part of a word family or semantic network

  4. Tiers of words • Tier 1: everyday speech, learned in early grades or at home, learned largely through conversation • Tier 2: characterize written and especially academic text, technical writing, literary texts • Tier 3: mostly in informational passages, specific to a domain or field of study, often explicitly defined by the text and repeatedly used

  5. Frayer

  6. Contextual Clues Matrix

  7. Concept/Definition Map Category What is it like? Properties Examples My explanation of ______ _is a ______. Some examples are_______. V-3 Project CRISSSM 2004

  8. Vocabulary Extension Strategies-Ranking Neuhaus Education Center

  9. Vocabulary Extension- Morphology

  10. Sample video • http://explicitinstruction.org/video-secondary-main/secondary-video-3/ • http://explicitinstruction.org/video-secondary-main/secondary-video-4/

  11. Let’s Practice • With a partner, complete the following on a word from the list: • Write 1 student friendly definition for the word. • Write 2 sentences using the word. • Write 3 yes/no questions you could ask students with the word.

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