1. Vocabulary for Content Area Instruction
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2. Vocabulary Background
When students graduate from high school their vocabulary is around 25,000 words.
Students vocabulary grows about 3000 words a year.
However, if you teach your students words a week then at the end of the school year you will have taught 555 words.

3. How are students learning?
Family activities
Hobbies
Trips
Television
READING

4. Vocabulary Strategy Morphemes
Use your knowledge of morphemes
to decode the following word.
What does it mean:
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS

5. Need some help? Let’s see if context (clues) help …
Because of his proximity to Mt. Saint Helens, he contracted PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
Pneumono - related to the lungs
Ultra - transcending; super
Micro – small
Scopic– related to a viewing instrument
Silico- the mineral silicon
Volcano- eruption in the earth from which molten rock, steam, and dust issue
Coni ( konis) – dust
Osis – referring to a disease condition

6. Morphemic Analysis
Students can learn meanings of words by locating the words root, prefix, and suffix.
Omnivorous omni=all
Carnivorous carno=flesh
Herbivorous herb=vegetation
vorous=to swallow up

7. Other Strategies for Building Vocab

8. Talk a Mile a Minute Create teams of 2-3
One person is designated the “Talker” and the other the “Receiver”
The “Talker” will give clues to each of the words on the list without saying the word
The “Receiver” tries to guess the words on the list by the clues

9. Things associated with oceans
Waves
Boats
Tide
Algae
Moon
Pacific
Atlantic

10. Famous/Infa mous people1 2 3 4 6 5

11. 2 3 1 5 6 4
States 7

12. 1 4 2 3 5 6 7

13. Name that Category
Provides opportunities for students to focus on attributes of concepts or terms presented.
One person is the clue giver- can see the game board
The others are the guessers- keep their backs to the board or screen
Goal:
The clue giver will list words that fit into a category until the guessers correctly identify the correct category.

14. Lines from Shakespeare plays
Terms & Details
Countries in Europe
200 POINTS
Lines from Shakespeare
plays
Books by Stephen King
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
Parts of a cell
Water Cycle
Lakes
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS

15. Survival of the Fittest
Give a list of words
Ask students to determine which one doesn’t belong
Ask students to explain why
Extension:
Have students replace words that don’t fit with ones that do. Have them justify why they work.

16. Presidents Abraham Lincoln George Washington Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
Bill Clinton
Harry Reid
George W. Bush
Barack Obama