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Building Vocabulary Karen Jogan, Ph.D. [email protected] PERU TESOL 2011 Stress • Stress timed rhythm • Syllable timed rhythm Karen Jogan [email protected] English is Stress-Timed! • • • • Mary had a little lamb Its fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went Her lamb was sure to go! Karen Jogan [email protected] Salad Bowl • Clap the syllables in the word • Organize vocabulary by number of syllables Karen Jogan [email protected] • • • • • • Cucumber Blue Cheese Dressing Arugula Cherry tomato Onion Avocado Karen Jogan [email protected] Time to make a salad! • Clap ingredients in a salad • Can your partner identify the ingredients? Karen Jogan [email protected] Your turn! • Make a list of 5 things that you are wearing today. • Clap for the syllables for your partner. • If your partner cannot guess, point to the item! Karen Jogan [email protected] Minimal pairs Karen Jogan [email protected] #1 or #2? • • • • Bit Bat But beet • • • • Bite Bait Bought bet Karen Jogan [email protected] #1 or #2? • • • • Walk Mill Park Go • • • • Walked Milk Parked goes Karen Jogan [email protected] Your turn! • Make a list of five pairs of words that your students have problems with. • Now, show your partner your list. • Let your partner tell you if the word you are saying is #1 or #2 Karen Jogan [email protected] Pronunciation Bingo • • • • • • Bit bid But Bat Bought beet • • • • • Bait Bite Boat Bet bed Karen Jogan [email protected] 3 1 2 Karen Jogan [email protected] Your turn! • What words do your students have difficulty “hearing”? • What strategies can you use to help with listening and pronunciation? Karen Jogan [email protected] Instant Words • Dr. Eduard Fry (1993) ranked English words in frequency order. • For fluent reading, students should be able to recognize the most common words “instantly.” • The first 25 instant words make up 33% of all reading material in English. Karen Jogan [email protected] Fry word lists and activities • http://www.uen.org/k2educator/word_lists.shtml • http://www.candohelperpage.com/sig htvocab_1.html Your turn! • WHY are these called “instant words”? • What strategies will you use to help your students learn Fry’s “instant words”? Karen Jogan [email protected] Irregular words • Difficulty Factors – How the word “looks” and how it is actually pronounced – Which words requires more practice? • car • Although • Debt • want Karen Jogan [email protected] • What words are difficult for your students? Karen Jogan [email protected] Strategies • • • • Select words that are useful Select upcoming words Limit words introduced Introduce similar words together Karen Jogan [email protected] Similar words • • • • Walk, talk, chalk Give, live Would, could, should Brother, other, mother Karen Jogan [email protected] You can’t pre-teach every hard word • Choose words carefully – – – – – Important to understand the text Can’t be predicted in the text Likely to be seen again Useful Idiomatic - frequent Karen Jogan [email protected] Spell Words • Students – – – – – See and hear word Say the word Clap syllables Spell it letter by letter Repeat the word Karen Jogan [email protected] Let’s practice • • • • • • Conestoga Portfolio Through Doubtful Celebration Comfortable Karen Jogan [email protected] • By spelling, students have to attend to all of the letters in the word! • Students reaffirm learning through reading the word Karen Jogan [email protected] Word Banks and Walls • Personal collections of words • Teachers can create Word Walls Karen Jogan [email protected] Word Study Notebooks • • • • Collections of words Sort words Draw and label words Write sentences using words studied Karen Jogan [email protected] Sections of Notebook • • • • Regular words Irregular words Homophones Personal words Karen Jogan [email protected] Graphic Organizers house barn Karen Jogan [email protected] Use words to write.. • Imagine that you are a weather forcaster. • Use these words in your report; • Today, rain, cloudy, north, seacoast, tomorrow, temperature Karen Jogan [email protected] Word Games • • • • Make a crossword puzzle Act out words (pantomime) Map words Categorize, Classify, and Organize words into categories Karen Jogan [email protected] Karen Jogan [email protected] Criss Cross Puzzle • http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducati on.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp Synonym Word Use Antonym Karen Jogan [email protected] Your turn! • Create a word map Synonym Word Use Karen Jogan [email protected] Antonym Your turn! • Create a vocabulary game… • What words will you use? • What game will you create? Karen Jogan [email protected] PAVE • • • • Prediction Association Verification Evaluation Karen Jogan [email protected] Thank you! Karen Jogan [email protected]