Vocabulary

Vocabulary refers to the words children must know to communicate effectively. It can be described as oral vocabulary or reading vocabulary.

** A Six-Step Process for Effective Vocabulary Instruction ** Step 1: The teacher provides a description, explanation, or example of the new term. Step 2: Students restate the explanation of the new term in their own words. Step 3: Students create a nonlinguistic representation of the term. Step 4: Periodically, students do activities that help them add to their knowledge of vocabulary terms. Step 5: Periodically, students are asked to discuss the terms with one another. Step 6: Periodically, students are involved in games that allow them to play with the terms.

Reference: Building Academic Vocabulary, Teacher’s Manual by Robert J. Marzano & Debra J. Pickering

FREE resources that build vocabulary which build background knowledge @http://textproject.org/students/fyi-for-kids/ @http://textproject.org/students/summerreads/ @http://textproject.org/frankly-freddy/fyi-for-kids-building-students-capacity-for-complex-text/ __@http://www.livebinders.com/media/get/MzAwOTY0MA==__ - NC Powerpoint relevant to Tier II words - Rubric for determining Tier II words - foldable for teachers From Reading Rockets:
 * Resources**
 * [|Classroom Vocabulary Assessment for Content Areas]
 * [|10 Ways to Use Technology to Build Vocabulary]
 * [|Choosing Words to Teach]
 * [|The Vocabulary-Rich Classroom: Modeling Sophisticated Word Use to Promote Word Consciousness and Vocabulary Growth]
 * [|Vocabulary Development During Read-Alouds: Primary Practices]
 * [|List-Group-Label]
 * [|Possible Sentences]
 * [|Semantic Feature Analysis]
 * [|Word Maps]
 * [|Word Hunts]

[|Levels of Word Knowledge PD]

[|Teaching Idioms PD]

[|Choosing Vocabulary to Teach PD]