Explicit Instruction for Tier III Words
Please jot down 3-5 “glossary” words or phrases that you plan to teach in the coming few weeks.
Explicit Implicit
Model I: Inductive Reasoning Using Visuals
maple leaf oak leaf oak leaf
Task: Work with a partner to practice saying a maple leaves oak leaves Task: Work with a partner to practice saying a sentence that specifies the major difference between maple leaves and oak leaves.
rockrose japonica lupine
charmander bulbasaur groudon
katydid mantid coleoptera
Model I: Inductive Reasoning Using Visuals Model II: Describe the concept. Then, name it. (“Concept First”)
deciduous trees
evergreen trees
Task: Work with a partner to practice saying a sentence that describes a significant feature that you observe about either deciduous or evergreen trees. deciduous trees evergreen trees
Many evergreen trees are conifers. Coniferous trees bear cones.
Word Components: Model I: Inductive Reasoning Using Visuals Model II: Describe the concept. Then, name it. (“Concept First”) Word Components: Model III:
Sp. Cognates: caer, accidente, incidente, la catapulta, catapultar, Latin Root 1 cadere: to fall CAD-, CAS-, CIDE- accident, incident coincide, coincidence casual, casualty deciduous catalogue category cascade coincide homicide, suicide, insecticide catastrophe catapult Sp. Cognates: caer, accidente, incidente, la catapulta, catapultar, categoria
preferir, diferir, referirse, transfirir, sufrir Latin Root 11 ferre: to bear, to bring, to carry FER- aquifer confer, conference conifer, coniferous circumference defer, deference differ, different, difference, indifferent, indifference fertile, fertility infer, inference offer prefer, preference proliferate refer, reference, referral, referendum suffer transfer, transference vociferous Sp. Cognates: preferir, diferir, referirse, transfirir, sufrir
residir, presidente, sedimento, sesion Latin Root 31 sedere: to sit, to settle SED-, SID-, SESS- preside, president reside, residence sediment possess obsess session assiduous Sp. Cognates: residir, presidente, sedimento, sesion
Word Components: Model I: Inductive Reasoning Using Visuals Model II: Describe the concept. Then, name it. (“Concept First”) Model III: Word Components: Model IV: Teaching Words in Bunches
Model IV: Teaching Words in Bunches Word forms Target word: Cone Related words: conifer, coniferous
Model IV: Teaching Words in Bunches II. Words that cluster around a single topic Topic: leaves Word Bank: bud, autumn, stem, season, transformation, cycle, symmetrical, asymmetrical, chlorophyl, photosynthesis, veins, foliage, vascular, phytomorphology
Model IV: Teaching Words in Bunches III. Group by structure (etymology) foliage: leaf Cousins: folio, portfolio, exfoliate
Word Components: Model I: Inductive Reasoning Using Visuals Model II: Describe the concept. Then, name it. (“Concept First”) Model III: Word Components: Model IV: Teaching Words in Bunches Model V: Hypothesize and Verify
the windows, which were tiny and thick with Forms: N: nettles Adj: nettlesome V: 00 Adv: 00 Nettles: thickets of weeds, usually with thorns the windows, which were tiny and thick with grew all around it, their tips reaching Great Expectations --Charles Dickens grime. Nettles As I saw him go, picking his way among the and among the brambles that bound the green nettles, bleak place overgrown with At such time I found out for certain that this Great Expectations --Charles Dickens was the churchyard. nettles Frequency: Forms of this word appear once in every 1,725 pages of text.