How students learn vocabulary words...
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Expanding Students' Knowledge of Words
Students learn the meaning of words by being immersed in an environment that is rich with words, throughout lots of daily independent reading and interactive read-aloud, and through instruction.
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What are component of vocabulary instruction?
1. Immerse students in words through listening, talking, reading and writting. 2. Teach specific words through active involvement and multiple encounters with words. 3. Teach word-learning strategies so students can figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words. 4. Develop students’ word consciousness, their awareness of and interest in words.
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How do students develop knowledge about a word?
Through repeated oral and written exposure to it.
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When students learn the origin of a new word, the students are learning that word’s:
etymology
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After presenting a lesson on Alaska, a teacher added the words tundra, Arctic, oil, and resources to the word wall. Those words are examples of:
Content related words
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What does SSR stand for? What does SSR encourage?
SSR means Sustained Silent Reading. Wide Reading
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What are the differences between synonyms, antonyms and homonyms?
Synonyms are words that have nearly the same meaning, antonyms are words that express opposite meanings and homonyms are confusing because even though these words have different meanings they’re either pronounced the same of spelled the same as other words.
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How do students learn vocabulary?
1. Reading Hobbies 2.Initial Recognition 3.Partial and Full Word Knowledge
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To read and comprehend a book, research suggests that students must
know 85% of the words in the book
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Word Study Activities
-Allow for students to examine and think more clearly about the meaning of words. -Can consist of visual representations, categorization relatedness to other words. -Word Maps -Word Sorts
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Assessing Students' Vocabulary Knowledge
>Difficult to assess students' vocabulary knowledge. >No grade-level standards on how may or which words to learn. >Informal Assessment tools: Observations, Conferences, Rubric Tests
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What NOT to do?
1.Students shouldn't read books that are to difficult for them because they will not understand the material. 2.If students haven't been taught word learning strategies or how to use context clues. Teachers should not expect students to know how to figure out the meaning of words.
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According to research, effective vocabulary instruction integrates new information with the familiar. Students are most likely to achieve that integration by
developing a semantic map.
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When teaching students to find the meaning of a word in a dictionary, instructors should:
compare the word to related words and opposites
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Word Learning Strategies
- Re- read sentence - Analyze root word and affixes - Check a dictionary - Sound out the word - Context Clues
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Students need opportunities for independent reading in order to ______ _______ and they need to read books at their independent reading levels
Learn words
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What are the three tiers of vocabulary?
Basic words, academic words, specialized words.
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Self Assessment:
1- I don't know this word at all 2- I've heard this before but I don't know the meaning 3-I think I know what this word means 4- I know one meaning for this word, and I can use it in a sentence 5 I know several meanings or other things about this word
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Research suggests that the best predictor of vocabulary growth in students between second grade and fifth grade is?
the amount of time students spend reading independently.
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Using Context Clues
- Students learn many words from context clues as they read. - Context clues provide information about the meaning of the word or part of speech. - Modeling is the best way to teach this concept, do a think aloud.
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Teachers can also use think-alouds when they model using ____________________________________________.
Context clues and other word-identification strategies.
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What is a homograph, and what is an example?
words that are spelt the same but pronounced differently Ex: bass and bas, bat and bat
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Words have entered the English language from many sources. The three main sources have been
English, Latin, and Greek
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Two of the best ways to provide opportunities for independent reading are:
Literacy circles and reading workshops.
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The key to expanding students' knowledge of words?
Is Consistency
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