Where in the C.O.D.E. will you find a student made glossary, a word wall, or a word catcher?
What is C (connect)?
100
A collection of words organized into categories and posted on the wall for students to use in their reading and writing.
What is a Word Wall?
100
The teacher or students determine which words are essential, which are important, an which are good to know.
What is Prioritizing Vocabulary?
100
Students create images, sketches, or icons with brief explanations to demonstrate understanding.
What is Visualizing Vocabulary?
100
Students play games like Bingo, Jeopardy!, and Word Baseball to review vocabulary in a competitive and fun manner.
What are Vocabulary Games?
200
The acronym for Vocabulary's C.O.D.E.
What is Connect, Organize, Deep-Process, and Exercise?
200
Students use "attack skills" (prefixes, suffixes, roots, context clues, and substitutions) to decode new words.
What is Power Decoding?
200
Students create visual representations of hierarchical relationships among a central concept, supporting ideas, and important details.
What are Concept Maps?
200
Students analyze a selection of stories and then use basic story elements to define important concepts.
What is storytelling?
200
The teacher sets up 5 or 6 stations that include a variety of vocabulary activities. Students rotate through all the stations, working in small groups.
What is Vocabulary Carousel?
300
This type of vocabulary instruction leads to an average improvement of 33 percentile points on subject-area tests.
What is direct instruction?
300
Students look at the word, pronounce it slowly, write it out, and record its definition in their own words.
What is See It, Say It, Show It, and Store It?
300
Students examine a list of words and place them into specific categories or into the appropriate slots of a visual organizer.
What are Word Banks?
300
Students use words deeply by exploring their relationships to other words and concepts (e.g., How is democracy like baseball?)
What is Metaphors and Similes?
300
The teacher instructs students in the principles of effective practice, including how to mass and distribute review sessions, use words often, and make stronger connections.
What is... Practice Makes Perfect?
400
Learning "general academic" and "domain-specific" content words help students make this more precise and powerful.
What is communication?
400
Students keep a glossary of new words, defining the terms in their own words and including icons or images of the terms.
What is Glossary?
400
Where in the C.O.D.E will you find an activity where students generate 5 words that fit the category, one for each "finger" of the organizer?
What is O (Organize)?
400
Students investigate word histories, analyzing how word's original meaning is intact and how it has changed.
What are Etymologies?
400
Students decide which word from a group of three doesn't belong and explain why.
What is Three's A Crowd?
500
Vocabulary terms are like these: if you don't use them and skip the workouts, you'll lose the definition.
What are muscles?
500
Students "catch" a new word each day and record it in their vocabulary journals.
What is Word Catcher?
500
A tool where students create a diagram that shows the relationship among the words on a Word Wall.
What is A Diagram to Die For?
500
Students select 3 words form a unit's vocabulary and arrange them on a triangle. They connect the words with lines and explain the relationship between each pair of words by writing along the connecting lines. They may also summarize these relationships in the middle of the triangle.
What is Three Way Tie?
500
Students work as peer partners. One student serves as a coach, the other as a player. While the player works to define key terms from the unit, the coach provides assistance, feedback, and praise. Students then reverse roles.