1. Vocabulary Instruction Created by Amy Okafor May ’06 Revised for 318 by Abel Reference - www.fcrr.org/staffpresentations/Marcia/NA/vocabulary_pineview.ppt Vocabulary Instruction

2. 5 BIG IDEAS:  Phonemic Awareness  Phonics  Fluency  Vocabulary  Comprehension

3.  V Vocabulary--- The words students need to know in order to communicate effectively.

4. Did you know? According to Hart & Risley, l995 (and TEA) Words Heard in an Hour Poverty: 615 words Middle Class: 1251 words Professional: 2153 words

5. Differences In Vocabulary Starts Early Average child from a welfare family hears about 3 million words a year vs. 11 million from a professional family. –By age 4, the gap grows to 13 vs. 45 mil. –Children from a professional family spoke more words than parents in a welfare family

6. Ways Words Are Learned By reading a lot Through multiple exposures (USE) Through explicit instruction : –Teaching words –Analyzing word parts –Exploring words

7. Closing the Vocabulary Gap

8. How many words should teachers teach per day to help close the gap? In 1 st and 2 nd grade, about 2 per day. 3 rd grade onward, about 8 per day. Remember - students already behind by 1 st grade need more intense and ambitious focus to help them catch up ! Research shows typical child needs to encounter a word about 12 times before they know it

9. Choosing Words For Vocabulary Instruction Words Matter

10. Molly avoided playing the ukulele. Which word would you choose to pre-teach?

11. avoided

12. Avoided Why? Verbs are where the action is – Teach avoid, avoided, avoids,…. – Likely to see it again in grade-level text – Likely to see it on a test Why not ukulele? – Rarely seen in print – Rarely used in stories or conversation or content-area information (discuss, not teach it)

13. Tier 1 = basic (clock, door, food) TEACH Tier 2 = high frequency for mature (coincidence, absurd, industrious) Tier 3 = infrequent (isotope, peninsula)

14. Deepening Children’s Understanding of Words

15. Charades –Act Out words Word Bee –Work together to define Word Substitution –Team mates replace a target word in a sentence Word Guess –Guess the word with fewest clues possible Games!!!

16. Venn Diagram CatDog meows fur tail barks

17. Use New Words in context What boisterous students! It is nice to get away from all that noise! I like the bright strong vivid color on your dress. How generous of you to give me your last apple.

18. Word Study Build word parts un-happi-ness hypogeal Teach multiple meanings, idioms, expressions (Amelia Bedelia) Teach children to use references (thesaurus)

19. Source: http://otra.texasreading.org Did you know? SourceDifficulty level Scientific Articles4389 Newspapers1690 Children’s Books627 College grads w friends496 Prime-time TV490 Mr. Rogers; Sesame St413

20. Lots of Reading improves voc + rdg Class Rank Daily Reading Words / year 90% (A)30 minutes1,823,000 80% (B)15 minutes1,146,000 70% (C)10 minutes622,000 Bottom 2% of the class lessVery few

21. Vocabulary Links Prefix/Suffix Game http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/skill/3_prefix.ht ml http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/skill/3_prefix.ht ml ESL support http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/vocabulary.h tml http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/englishcorner/vocabulary/vocabulary.h tml Vocabulary & Analogies http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html Interactive Adventure Stories http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/7_9entry/7_9.shtml Mad libs http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html sample – try it here – click “play” http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/Games/Game.html?Ga meName=MadLibsSchoolRules&Brain=reading&GameNumber=1& Color=FFFFFFhttp://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/Games/Game.html?Ga meName=MadLibsSchoolRules&Brain=reading&GameNumber=1& Color=FFFFFF Which word parts to teach http://www.nevadareading.org/resources/vocab/vocab_parts.pdf http://www.nevadareading.org/resources/vocab/vocab_parts.pdf