roots
vocab strategies
Do you know the word?
Numbers
mosh posh
100
This root means life.
What is bio?
100
This vocab strategy connects words to the students native language.
What is cognates?
100
This is the number of stages in this Marzanos graphic organizer for rating word knowledge.
What is 4 stages.
100
This is what the number 616, 500 represents.
What is the number of words in the English language.
100
This is the name of the act Obama passed that funded the first two years of IDEC.
What is ARRA.
200
This root means sleep.
What is hypno?
200
This strategy guides the students to figure out the meaning of unknown words by looking at other words in the sentence to clue them in.
What is Context Clues?
200
In this stage you have had some exposure to the word but can't tell what it means.
What is stage 2.
200
This is the amount of time a child needs to read every night to see 2 million words.
What is 20 minutes.
200
These are the two Tiers of vocabulary that are generally overtaught.
What is Tier 1 and 3
300
This is the meaning of the root noc.
What is night.
300
This is the strategy that uses the root meaning and prefixes/suffixes to find the meaning of a word.
What is word structure?
300
This is how well you know a word in stage 4.
What is know it well, can use it.
300
This is the approximate number of word families in the English language.
What is 88,700.
300
This is a tool used for turning wood or metal to round surfaces.
What is a lathe.
400
This is the meaning of the root vest.
What is to adorn.
400
This strategy guides readers when the definition follows the word, offset by commas.
What is apposition.
400
This is the stage of word knowledge when you can figure out the word with the help of context clues.
What is stage 3.
400
This is the average number of words students need to learn per year.
What is 2,000.
400
This is the percentage of words in a passage that a person should know for adequate comprehension.
What is 90% to 95%.
500
This is the meaning of the root term.
What is boundary or limit.
500
This strategy often misleads the reader in written texts because it lacks the tone and nonverbal cues that are often necessary to find the context.
What is context clues.
500
In this stage you have never seen, and don't know the word at all.
What is stage 1.
500
This is the amount of time a child needs to read each day to see 8,000 words in a year.
What is one minute
500
This is the single most important thing you can do to improve students vocabulary.
What is get them to read.
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