Making an Anticipatory Set  Read a chapter in your instructional text. Find some content that will be surprising to your students. Write each of them out on scratch paper.  Then write some of the most important content that you want your students to remember. Make half of them false as you write them out.  Mix them up and place on the form.

Vocabulary Dr. Albie Sautter

Objectives

Vocabulary- an ongoing process Age Words known College Sophomore 5,600 9,600 14,700 21,200 26,300 29,300 34, ,000

How does this happen??? Memorization????

Research  The more a student reads, the larger the student’s vocabulary.  Students learn new words faster if they use the new words in their daily communications.

CODE  Connect to prior knowledge  Organize  Deep Process  Explore Core Vocabulary

Connect to Prior Knowledge  Start talking about the words you are introducing using words that your students understand.  Incorporate words that your students already know in to the list.

Demonstration 1  Follow the instructions on your word list.

How many words from each of these lists did you remember?  Odds Car Butter Summer Rain Ball  Evens Shoe Gold Pencil Flower Book

Organization  By using a comprehensive framework information overload is greatly reduced.

Use a graphic organizer to organize this list  Objectives  curriculum  Standards  Goals  Scope  Evaluation  Assessment  Literacy  Lifelong learning  Sequence  Rubric  Unit  Lesson  Content area  Interdisciplinary

Deep Processing  Explain the terms in words (Linguistic) Write their own explanation  Representing it visually (Visual) Draw a picture.  Linking to it emotionally (emotional) Examine the students feeling about the word.  Representing it physically (Kinesthetic) Act out the word.

Other ways to Deep Process Vocabulary  Matching with definitions  Fill in the blank worksheets  Crossword puzzles  Word searches  Scrambled words  Word Stories  Use words in sentences  Partner coaching explain words to another student  Quiz games

Exploring Core Vocabulary  Special words that are central to the understanding of a specific concept  Examples:  Evolution in Science  Function in math  Communism in History

Core vocabulary methods  Vocabulary notebook –Write their own definition for difficult words –Look it up in the dictionary –Select most important words Classification Analogy Visual representation synonyms

Now for the Rowdy Red Hawk  Rowdy Red Hawk poked his magnificant scarlet wings around the dome of Academic Hall and placed his feathery black chin directly on the top. He said to him self, “This is my campus and its about time I have some fun.”

Vocabulary Dr. Albie Sautter