1. Swiss cheese soup, the soup de jour, Is chronically elusive.
Attempts to twist it on a spoon
Have proven inconclusive.
Swiss cheese soup is slimy goop.
Its contents are elastic.
It consists of bacon bits,
And tastes like melted plastic.
The slurping up of Swiss cheese soup
Results in much chagrin.
One cannot help but notice
Stubborn strands around one’s chin.
The act of eating Swiss cheese soup
Is whimsical and scary.
It’s not for the fastidious
And not for the unwary.

2. Swiss cheese soup, the soup de jour, Is chronically elusive.
Attempts to twist it on a spoon
Have proven inconclusive.
Swiss cheese soup is slimy goop.
Its contents are elastic.
It consists of bacon bits,
And tastes like melted plastic.
The slurping up of Swiss cheese soup
Results in much chagrin.
One cannot help but notice
Stubborn strands around one’s chin.
The act of eating Swiss cheese soup
Is whimsical and scary.
It’s not for the fastidious
And not for the unwary.

3. Knowing a word is not an “all or nothing” thing.
Strangers?
Friends?
Acquaintances?
Knowing a word is like knowing a person. Not an all-or-nothing thing.
Some words are strangers, meaning that
they are completely unfamiliar. Others
are acquaintances, meaning that we have
some familiarity with them. Others are
friends, meaning that we know them and
use them. <go to chat>
How does a word acquaintance become a word friend?
Three ways: (same as a person goes from being an
acquaintance to being a friend)
1. Spend time (repeated exposure)
2. Get to know (word components: prefixes, roots)
3. Have fun: word games and puzzles
fastidious
chagrin
inconclusive
elusive
soup du jour
elastic

4. inconclusive unwary fastidious
Should I spend time teaching this word explicitly?
Three Questions:
How useful is this word? Will students be likely to encounter it again
soon? Is it necessary for comprehension?
Will teaching this word explicitly equip the students with word-learning
skills that can be applied to other words?
3. Am I enthusiastic about this word? Can I make it interesting?
To comprehend text, the reader needs to know 95% of the words.
Next, we’re going to look at two models for explicit instruction that results in durable learning of the target word.
inconclusive
unwary
fastidious

5. inconclusive
unwary
fastidious
wary
conclusive

6. Morphology Chart Attempts to twist it on a spoon
Have proven inconclusive.
NOUNS:
They will fit into this frame: The_____.
VERBS:
They will fit into this frame:
To____ or
Can____or
Is____
ADJECTIVES:
They will fit into this frame:
The ________truck or
The truck is very _____.
ADVERBS:
They will fit into this frame:
Do it ___________.
(the) conclusion
(the) conclusions
(I) conclude.
(He) concludes.
(She is) concluding.
(Yesterday, we)
concluded.
conclusive
inconclusive
conclusively
inconclusively
Nouns answer the question: What? or Who?
Verbs answer the question: What is it doing, having, feeling, or being?
Adjectives answer the question: What kind? (They may also answer the questions Which one? and
How many? but those kinds of adjectives do not fit into
the frame of The______truck.
Adverbs answer any of these questions: Where? When? Why? To what extent? How?

7. It’s not for the fastidious.
Morphology Chart
It’s not for the fastidious.
NOUNS:
They will fit into this frame: The_____.
VERBS:
They will fit into this frame:
To____ or
Can____or
Is____
ADJECTIVES:
They will fit into this frame:
The ________truck or
The truck is very _____.
ADVERBS:
They will fit into this frame:
Do it ___________.
(the) fastidiousness
fastidious
fastidiously
Nouns answer the question: What? or Who?
Verbs answer the question: What is it doing, having, feeling, or being?
Adjectives answer the question: What kind? (They may also answer the questions Which one? and
How many? but those kinds of adjectives do not fit into
the frame of The______truck.
Adverbs answer any of these questions: Where? When? Why? To what extent? How?

8. Morphology Chart beware aware, awareness unaware, unawareness
…and not for the unwary.
NOUNS:
They will fit into this frame: The_____.
VERBS:
They will fit into this frame:
To____ or
Can____or
Is____
ADJECTIVES:
They will fit into this frame:
The ________truck or
The truck is very _____.
ADVERBS:
They will fit into this frame:
Do it ___________.
(the) wariness
(the) unwariness
wary
unwary
warily
unwarily
Nouns answer the question: What? or Who?
Verbs answer the question: What is it doing, having, feeling, or being?
Adjectives answer the question: What kind? (They may also answer the questions Which one? and
How many? but those kinds of adjectives do not fit into
the frame of The______truck.
Adverbs answer any of these questions: Where? When? Why? To what extent? How?