Transcript Mini PD - Vocabulary

January 17, 2013
Dear Super Stars,
Good Morning! Thank you for joining us for the Vocabulary
Professional Development. Please sign-in and enjoy a treat. Did you
remember to bring your Professional Learning Log?
Sincerely,
Mrs. Janz and Mrs. Porter
Good Morning …. My favorite thing to
do on a snow day is….
Mini PD Norms
•Start and end on time
•Be an active participant
•Allow time for questions and
discussions
•Take what you can use
•Be willing to try something new
MNPS Professional Development
Vision
Metropolitan Nashville Public
Schools provides all stakeholders
quality professional development for
adult learning that results in the
growth of the whole child and the
improvement of student learning.
Maxwell Achievement Slogan
Be your best - achieve success!
What’s Vocabulary ?
Vocabulary Knowledge
Learning, as a language based activity, is
fundamentally and profoundly dependent on
vocabulary knowledge. Learners must have
access to the meanings of words that teachers,
or their surrogates (e.g., other adults, books, films,
etc.) use to guide them into contemplating known
concepts in novel ways (i.e., to learn something
new).
Baker, Simmons, & Kame’enui, 1998
Closing the Achievement Gap
It is now well accepted that the chief cause
of the achievement gap between
socioeconomic groups is the language gap.
- E.D. Hirsch (2003)
Meaningful Differences
Free and Reduced Lunch at Maxwell – 77 %
Expectations for Maxwell
• Weekly list of grade level vocabulary
words are included in lesson plan binder
• Weekly vocabulary words are posted in
the classroom
• Explicit vocabulary instruction
Choosing Vocabulary Words
Isabel Beck’s Three Tier Model for
choosing vocabulary words from text.
Tier 3 - Low Frequency Words
Technical Words
Tier 3
Tier 2 - Words to Teach
High Frequency
High Utility
Tier 2
Tier 1 - Know, Common Words
Tier 1
Tiers of Words
• Tier 1
• Basic vocabulary – happy, cold, talk
• Clearly important – Especially for ELL’s
• Easy, decodable and already familiar
• Connected with prior knowledge
• Tier 2
• High frequency – avoid, fortunate, industrious
• Play a large role in verbal functioning across a variety of
domains
• Tier 3
• Low frequency
• May be to specific domains
Tier 1, 2, 3 Sort
Activity: Sort the words into the appropriate
tiers.
Tier 3 - Low Frequency Words
Technical Words
Tier 3
Tier 2 - Words to Teach
High Frequency
High Utility
Tier 2
Tier 1 - Know, Common Words
Tier 1
How to select vocabulary words…
•Standards
Rl.2.3 Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats,
alliteration, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a
story, poem, or song.
•Content
Landforms, government, citizenship, cycle, hibernate, capacity
Selecting Words
• Select a handful of words to preteach
• Select words to pre-teach carefully
 Choose words that represent major
concepts or key ideas in the story
 Choose words that not used in
everyday language
 Don’t choose words where
illustrations or context clues “teach”
word meaning
Selecting Words
• Pre-teaching should be direct and
brief
• Pre-taught words should be on
individual word cards or presented
only one at a time
Six Step Process for Teaching
New Terms
1. Explain - Provide a description,
explanation, or example of the new term
2. Restate - Ask students to restate the
description, explanation, or example in
their own words
3. Show - Ask students to construct a
picture, symbol, or graphic representing
the term
Six Step Process for Teaching
New Terms
4. Activities- Engage students periodically
in activities that help them add to their
knowledge of the terms in their
notebooks
5. Discuss - Periodically ask students to
discuss the terms with one another
6. Games - Involve students periodically in
games that allow them to play with terms
Word Wall - Art
Word Wall –P.E.
Word Wall - Art
Word Wall
Word Wall
Word Wall
Word Wall
Chunking Word Wall
Resources
• Games
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/strategies.html