1. Explicit Instruction for Tier III Words

2. Explicit
Implicit

3. Model I: Inductive Reasoning Using Visuals

4. maple leaf
oak leaf
oak leaf

5. 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.

6. willow
willow
birch
hemlock

7. migration
foraging
roosting

8. seed pod
seedling
growing medium

9. Model I: Inductive Reasoning Using Visuals
Model II: Describe the concept. Then, name it.
(“Concept First”)

10. deciduous trees

11. evergreen trees

12. 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

13. Many evergreen trees are conifers. Coniferous trees bear cones.

14. Word Components: Model I: Inductive Reasoning Using Visuals
Model II: Describe the concept. Then, name it.
(“Concept First”)
Word Components:
Model III:

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. Model IV: Teaching Words in Bunches
Word forms
Target word: Cone
Related words: conifer, coniferous

20. 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

21. Model IV: Teaching Words in Bunches
III. Group by
structure (etymology)
foliage: leaf
Cousins: folio, portfolio, exfoliate

22. 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

23. 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.