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Welcome to your favorite part of the day
Aric Foster
[email protected]
@aricfoster2
Vocab Grab
Vocabulary pedagogy, strategies and
resources that you can use in your
classroom today.
Question #1:
How many years have I
been teaching?
Currently year 15
in Armada
English 11,
AP Lit/Comp,
Coaching:
wrestling, track
Question #2:
How many times have I
presented about
vocabulary instruction?
Answer #2:
6, ISD, MRA, twittershpere,
SBL 6 years
Question #3:
How many children do I
have?
Answer #3:
One perfect
child:
Aric Victor
3 years old
Why are you here?
Ask a new friend
Tell a new friend
Lie to a new friend
Why are you here?
1) To get seat time hours
Why are you here?
1) To get seat time hours
2) Principal “insisted” on it
Why are you here?
1) To get seat time hours
2) Principal “insisted” on it
3) Truly interested in improving as a teacher
Why are you here?
1) To get seat time hours
2) Principal “insisted” on it
3) Truly interested in improving as a teacher
4) Trying to find a suitable significant other
For your convenience…
Everything I will discuss today is explained
thoroughly on paper and briefly in this
power point.
For your convenience…
Everything I will discuss today is explained
thoroughly on paper and briefly in this
power point.
The paper in front of you and this power
point is at armadafoster.weebly.com
For your convenience…
Everything I will discuss today is explained
thoroughly on paper and briefly in this
power point.
The paper in front of you and this power
point is at armadafoster.weebly.com
If you forget the website, or want more
information or clarification, you can email
me at [email protected]
For your convenience…
Everything I will discuss today is explained
thoroughly on paper and briefly in this
power point.
The paper in front of you and this power
point is at armadafoster.weebly.com
If you forget the website, or want more
information or clarification, you can email
me at [email protected]
If you are too young for email, you can
follow me on twitter @aricfoster2
For your convenience…
Everything I will discuss today is explained
thoroughly on paper and briefly in this power
point.
The paper in front of you and this power
point is at armadafoster.weebly.com
If you forget the website, or want more
information or clarification, you can email
me at [email protected]
If you are too young for email, you can follow
me on twitter @aricfoster2
3-2-1 guide on front page to get the most out
of our time together and find it easily on
Monday.
Skills, not Words
Context clues
Parts of speech
Word parts
(Greek/Latin)
Vocab Hunt
examples on p. 7-9
Select vocabulary words
with a purpose
Fifth grade teachers = dinosaurs
Me = “obsequious”
10 words per two weeks, not 25
Depth (skills) not breadth (words)
“Literacy in Action”
MISD Training
Factors in choosing words
Words essential to understand the text, perhaps “English
terms” FOIL, SATIRE, FABLIAUX
Challenging words from the text that learners will see again:
FOLIAGE, CHASM, ABHORRENT, OMEN,
Words from the text with identifiable word parts:
INCONCEIVABLE, AMOROUS
Common Core Tier II Words: SYNTHESIZE, COMPILE
Overlapping of factors: SOLILOQUY
Example on p. 10-11
Now what?
You are back in school and
excited to revamp vocab
instruction; you previewed
vocabulary skills; you chose
your vocabulary words
purposefully…
Now what?
Now what?
You previewed vocabulary skills, you chose your
vocabulary words purposefully, now what?
1) Students rank familiarity of
words (p. 10)
Now what?
You previewed vocabulary skills, you chose your
vocabulary words purposefully, now what?
1) Students rank familiarity of
words (p. 10)
2) Practice them with fun
activities (p. 14-19)
Now what?
You previewed vocabulary skills, you chose your
vocabulary words purposefully, now what?
1) Students rank familiarity of
words (p. 10)
2) Practice them with fun
activities (p. 14-19)
3) Summative assessment:
(p. 12)
Now what?
You previewed vocabulary skills, you chose your
vocabulary words purposefully, now what?
1) Students rank familiarity of
words (p. 10)
2) Practice them with fun
activities (p. 14-19)
3) Summative assessment
4) Students re-rank their
mastery of each word to show
themselves growth: (p. 11)
Now what?
You previewed vocabulary skills, you chose your
vocabulary words purposefully, now what?
1) Students rank familiarity of
words (p. 10)
2) Practice them with fun
activities (p. 14-19)
3) Summative assessment
4) Students re-rank their
mastery of each word to show
themselves growth: (p. 11)
4) Easily compile student
growth data (p. 13)
Ready to see some
groovy activities?
Go to
armadafoster.weebly.com
or email me at
[email protected]
for a thorough
explanation of
each activity and for
more activities not
covered today.
El Serpiente
Works with concepts too
Kids’ favorite
Social motivation
Day before quiz
3:00 Video example
El Serpiente
https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=3I
U1-KBA1Mg
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
2)Dice Game
2 & 3: Act it out
4 & 5: Draw it
6 & 8: Kinda not really
9 & 10: Antonym
11 & 12: Pre/suffix
7: Use it in a sentence
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
2)Dice Game
3)Know/Don’t know
3&3
Same parentals
Same bf/gf
Same favorite _____
Same phone
Same # & type siblings
5:25 Video example
Video reflection
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
2)Dice Game
3)Know/Don’t know
https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=tuqE9wtd
U6g
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
2)Dice Game
3)Know/Don’t know
4) Polleverywhere.com
Scrolling, word art,
multiple choice, bar
graphs, etc.
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
2)Dice Game
3)Know/Don’t know
4) Polleverywhere.com
5)Spectrum
2:10 Video example
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
2)Dice Game
3)Know/Don’t know
4) Polleverywhere.com
5)Spectrum
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=YM6JYoYkFRI
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
2)Dice Game
3)Know/Don’t know
4) Polleverywhere.com
5)Spectrum
6)Walk to Remember
Practice right now with
words from page 10? 
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
2)Dice Game
3)Know/Don’t know
4) Polleverywhere.com
5)Spectrum
6)Walk to Remember
7)Shared Conversation
Practice right now with
words from page 10? 
All Stars
1)Fly swatter (super?)
2)Dice Game
3)Know/Don’t know
4) Polleverywhere.com
5)Spectrum
6)Walk to Remember
7)Shared Conversation
8)Texting
4 Most challenging:
word, P.O.S., definition
to friend in the room,
friend not in the room,
parental, another adult
Activities with cards
Activities with cards
1) Sorting
Parts of speech
Synonyms
Antonyms
Most alike/different
Mastery Spectrum
Video example later with
white boards
Activities with cards
1) Sorting
2) Tomalo
“Take it”
1-1
All on desk
Take Answer (or slap it)
Activities with cards
1) Sorting
2) Tomalo
3) Go Fish
“Do you have an
abstract noun that
means hatred?”
Activities with cards
1)
2)
3)
4)
Sorting
Tomalo
Go Fish
Memory
Just like the kid game
One side: word/P.O.S
Other side: definition
White boards: Home Depot, $35, 12 years
Sorting: Same as with cards
:45 Video example
Sorting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRq_vC6HzxI
4 Square: pictures
Memory: 2 play, class is “cards”
1:44 Video example
Memory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm1KMt5kGrQ
Does it work?
Words from old units mixed into games for new units
“Can I prove to you that you already know that word?
“Incredulous” “AHA, without me”
Growth charts
Teacher: “How are those two words similar?”
Student: “The suffixes are the same – makes them the
same part of speech.”
Student: “I should know what uniformity means, shouldn’t
I?”
Teacher: “Maybe. What makes you think that you should
know it?”
Student: “Cuz it has word parts and you will probably make
me figure it out on my own.”
Research: http://t.co/SrXdVgsqpN
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Questions? Concerns?
Criticisms?
[email protected]
@aricfoster2
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Aric Foster
El serpiente video
is the next, and
final, slide