1. Vocabulary
September, 2014

2. I can describe the characteristics of tiered vocabulary.
I can identify tiered vocabulary in context.
I can use strategies and activities to teach vocabulary to help students comprehend complex text.
Learning Targets

3. Vocabulary Research
Students need 12 oral production opportunities to own a word before reading.
The average 6 year old has a vocabulary of approximately 8,000 words and learns more words each year.
Students with limited vocabularies cannot use context clues to figure out unknown words because they do not know the words in context.
Research by Margarita Calderon

4. The Power of Polysemous Words
Polysemous words= homonyms or homographs across academic content areas

5. power table light court radical left
cell beat check great
Polysemous words

6. Tier 1 Words most basic rarely require instruction
desk pencil paper baby

7. Tier 2 Words seen in complex text not learned in everyday conversation
must be taught
distinct despair catastrophe generate

8. Tier 3 Words content specific bold words in text
applicable to a specific area of study
osmosis circumference bailout peninsula

9. Identify Tiered Vocabulary
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

10. Tiered Vocabulary Tier 2 Tier 3 establish insure welfare union
tranquility
Tier 3
liberty
domestic
posterity
Constitution

11. Seven Steps to Vocabulary instruction
1. Teacher says the word.
2. Ask students to repeat the word 3 times.
3. State the word in context.
4. Provide the dictionary definition.
5. Explain meaning with student friendly definition.
6. Engage students in an activity to develop word/concept knowledge.
7. Teacher highlights grammar, spelling or polysemy.

12. 7 Steps in Action 1. Constitution 2. Repeat 3 times.
do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
4. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
5. law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
6. Share with a partner: What would be difficult about writing a constitution?
7. noun, law for the people

14. Vocabulary Knowledge=Comprehension
When the lights suddenly went out, I grasped the nearest thing, an echinated vine! Such was my distress that I immediately defenestrated the plant.

15. Defenestrate

16. Echinated

17. Restate in Your Own Words
When the lights suddenly went out, I grasped the nearest thing, an echinated vine! Such was my distress that I immediately defenestrated the plant.

18. Vocabulary Instruction Keys...
Thoroughly teach 8-10 words per week.
Use words orally and in writing to anchor the vocabulary.
Multiple exposure and repetition is important.
Students need to explore words through engagement, NOT looking words up.

19. Frayer Model
A graphic organizer to help students learn new vocabulary by not only defining the term in their own words but contextualizing it through examples and visual representation.

20. Graffiti Vocabulary 1. Vocabulary word is drawn with bubble letters.
2. Description of term using own words.
3. At least 3 images representing the term.

21. Making Meaning
1. Identify words from the text that students need to understand to comprehend the text.
2. Students brainstorm what they already know about the term.
3. After reading, complete graphic organizer.

22. Vocabulary Cartoons 1. Vocabulary term 2. Brief description
3. Linking word
4. Cartoon
5. Sentence that uses the term and linking word.

23. Wordsplash
Tagxedo
Wordle

24. Word Sorting 1. Provide students words from text.
2. Have them sort into categories.

25. Vocabulary Frames 1. Index card for each word.
2. Create a vocabulary frame using concept terms.

26. KIM Strategy 1. Students identify term.
2. Give information about the term.
3. A memory cue based on the student’s own understanding of the word.

27. Crossword Puzzles
puzzlemaker
edhelper

28. I can describe the characteristics of tiered vocabulary.
I can identify tiered vocabulary in context.
I can use strategies and activities to teach vocabulary to help students comprehend complex text.
Learning Targets

29. Create a classroom environment that encourages students to develop word knowledge.
Incorporate vocabulary strategies into daily lesson plans.
Bring an artifact that demonstrates vocabulary instruction or invite an administrator or me into your classroom to watch vocabulary instruction in action.
Next Steps