1. Intermediate Grades and Middle School: Decoding, Vocabulary, and Meaning Chapter 6

2. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 2 Chapter-Opening Graphic Organizer

3. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 3 Decoding Needs of Students in Upper Elementary and Middle School

4. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 4 How Students Acquire Vocabulary 1. Direct Instruction 2. Wide Reading 3. Context - Helpful - Hindrance

5. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 5 Elements of Effective Vocabulary Instruction Awareness of Words Wide Reading Direct Instruction

6. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 6 Figure 6.1: Decisions to Make About Teaching Selection Vocabulary.

7. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 7 Tiers of Words 1. Tier One Words 2. Tier Two Words 3. Tier Three Words

8. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 8 Vocabulary Strategies for Student Independence Inferring Word Meaning from Context Concept of Definition (word map) Semantic Mapping Semantic Feature Analysis Hierarchical & Linear Array Preview in Context Contextual Redefinition Vocabulary Self- collection Structural Analysis Dictionary/Thesaurus

9. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 9 Figure 6.2: Intermediate and Middle- School Strategy Poster for Inferring Word Meanings

10. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 10 Figure 6.3: Completed Word Map for Ice Cream.

11. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 11 Figure 6.5: Blank Venn Diagram.

12. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 12 Figure 6.6: Hierarchical Array.

13. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 13 Figure 6.7: Linear Array.

14. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 | 14 Terms You Need to Know ■base words ■context ■direct teaching ■hierarchical array ■inflectional endings ■linear array ■prefixes ■root words ■semantic feature analysis ■suffixes ■Tier One Words ■Tier Two Words ■Tier Three Words ■word bank (word file, word book)