Joanna Velarde Monica Hernandez Christy Kunkel Karla Campos

 Enriching and developing students vocabularies should be a major goal in each academic discipline  Vocabulary is very important to reading comprehension. Readers cannot understand what they are reading without knowing what most of the words mean.  Critical reading is the ability to draw useful information from a book and often does not get the emphasis it needs.  Reading vocabulary-the words we need to know to understand what we read.

 Word Study Activities  Vocabulary Word Map  Word Games  Incidental Word Learning  Independent Reading

 Easier to learn meanings when concepts are apparent  More meanings to words than just one.  Example- “bark” means the cover of a tree in addition to an action that a dog does.  Compound words  Synonyms  Antonyms  Homonyms  Figurative meanings  Example- similes and metaphors

 Word posters  Word maps  Dramatizing Words  Word Sorts  Word Chains

 What Is It? A vocabulary word map is a visual organizer that helps students engage with and think about new terms or concepts in several ways.  How Does It Work? The new term goes in the middle of the map. Students fill in the rest of the map with a definition, synonyms, antonyms, and a picture to help illustrate the new concept.  Help Me Visualize A Vocabulary Word Map. Got a good graphic for me

 Seek and find puzzles, crossword puzzles, concentration with words and definitions, charades, Password, Bingo Across 3. The color of the nature 6. The place where you find your books 7. A type of pet 8. Appears during the day Down 1. Your teacher's name 2. A utensil to write with 4. Geometric shape 5. The sum of 10 plus 4

 Children pick a work and act it out for their classmates -Somewhat like the game of charades. The classmates guess what word it is.  “Action is a more effective was to explain a word than a verbal definition.” (pg. 189)

Charades is perfect example of a game that can be used in order to put the dramatizing words strategy into effect.

✔ Lots of talk in the classroom – Discussion of events and experiences – Discussion of books – Peer groups collaborating on learning activities ✔ Listening to stories/books read aloud ✔ Teachers’ modeling of curiosity about words

Aal Differences in Quantity of Words Heard In a typical hour, the average child would hear: Welfare:616 words Working Class:1,251 words Professional:2,153 words

 Two ways to provide opportunities for independent reading are reading workshops and literature circles which allows the children to read self-selected books that interest them and to learn words in context.  Teaching children to love reading on their own and teaching them by showing is so important.

 Children learn an average of 3,000 words a year through reading, instruction, and other experiences.  Reading has the greatest impact on children’s vocabulary development and is the most important way that children learn new words.  The amount of time that children spend reading independently is the best predictor of vocabulary growth after second grade.  The books they choose to read should be appropriate for their reading levels. If they choose a book that is too easy or too hard, they will learn very few new words.

✔ He tried to open the box with no luck. He couldn’t find the key, so he decided to use a smidget. ✔ Say the word. ✔ Look for clues. ✔ Ask your self what the meaning might be. ✔ Put word in the passage; does it make sense?

 ReadingQuest.org  Fostering Vocabulary Development in Elementary Classrooms by Joanne F. Carlisle  Puzzlemaker.com  Vocabulary in Beginning Reading  Put Reading First  Tompkins, G. (2007). Literacy for the 21 st century: Teaching reading & writing in prek through grade 4 (2 nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.