1. Best Practices Vocabulary Research

2. Multiple Levels of Understanding B Verbal Association Level Partial Concept Knowledge Full Concept Knowledge MediatedIncidentalExplicit

3. everyday use definitional/single contexts wide and varied interactive reading learn words as they appear in context Verbal Association Level

4. deeper level of understanding knowledge of multiple meaning possibilities explicit strategies for words integral to story’s a meaning graphic organizers to extend definitional knowledge Partial Concept Knowledge

5. deep level of understanding that includes knowledge of word families, multiple meaning, and ways to extend definitions to application ability to discriminate word from similar words ability to extend definition to related concepts Full Concept Knowledge

6. explicit strategies for connecting and extending words opportunities for students to integrate word and concept in meaningful use Full Concept Knowledge

7. Summarizing Summarizing has a positive effect on comprehension and recall. (Trebasso and Bouchard, 2002) One-Sentence Summary Magnet Summaries

9. 1.The students read a passage and the teacher identifies magnet words from the passage. 2.The students write each magnet word in the center of an index card. 3.Details (words/phrases) for each magnet word are written around the index card. 4.Words/phrases are combined into a summary.

10. Magnet Summaries

14. Causes

15. Magnet Summaries North

16. Magnet Summaries South

18. Magnet Summaries