the vocab lab/snap vocab

The Vocab Lab:Fill your school with words!

The Vocab Lab

The Vocab Lab:Use digital tools!

The Vocab Lab

The Vocab Lab

Turn your students into word

nerds!

The Vocab Lab

The Vocab Lab

Improve Students’ Academic Vocabulary with Daily

Minilessons

Contact Information

Angela B. Peery, Ed. D. drangelapeery@gmail.com

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Forthcoming Books(Solution Tree, Summer 2016)

BLENDED VOCABULARY

o Modeling and school culture

o Direct instruction that includes strategic use of

digital toolso Incidental learning

opportunities

THE VOCAB LAB

o Effective instructiono Specific mini-lesson

structureo 200 ideas for mini-

lessons

Robust Vocabulary

30 million word gap (preschool)

lack of background knowledge

mothers’ educational level

connected to reading comprehension

the gap grows over time…

writing and speaking

achievement in all disciplines

What’s a well-meaning teacher to do?

Levels of Knowing a Word1. No knowledge of the word—never heard or saw it 2. May have heard the word, but don’t really know

what it means 3. Can make general associations with the word and

recognize it within context (receptive)4. Have a rich understanding of the word and can use

it in speaking and writing (expressive)

Edgar Dale, 1965

Let’s try to get students from stages 1 and 2 to stage 3 or beyond!

Vocab Lab Components: SNAP

Seeing and saying each word

Naming a category and/or group to which the word belongs

Acting on the words (engaging in a brief task or conversation about the words)Producing an original application of the words

Sseeing and saying

Nnaming, classifying, associating

Aacting on

Pproducing

What’s Your Level of Understanding?Enigmatic Lachrymose Cupidity

Peignoir VerbosityFlumadiddle Hircine Fete

KerflooeySempiternity Palliative Selenology

Heptad FoistCondesplainingPedantic Guanciale Microvolunteerism

Natter HuitlacocheBlurbification

Wistful Mostarda Caterwaul

Freerice.comPrepfactory.com

Wordspy.comDictionary.com word of

the day by email

EXPERIENCE A VOCAB LAB MINI-LESSON

Experience It: Student Version

Advance (v.)

Proceed (v.)

Progress (v.)S

Experience It: Student Version

Advance

Proceed

Progress N

Experience It: Student Version

How might you use these words in conversation with a friend today?

• Advance• Proceed • Progress A

Experience It: Student Version

Choose at least two words to use in sentences showing that you understand the

meaning.• Advance• Proceed • Progress (regress) P

Experience It: Adult Version

Arancini (n.)

Orriechette (n.)

Guanciale (n.)

Affogato (n.)

Experience It: Adult Version

Arancini (n.) – breaded, fried rice (risotto) balls

Orriechette (n.) – small oval pasta, “little ears”

Guanciale (n.) – cured pork jowl

Affogato (n.) – dessert of gelato “drowned” in espresso

Which of these would you like to eat for dinner and why?

• Arancini• Orriechiette• Guanciale• Affogato A

Using two or more of the target words, write a paragraph that shows you know

what they mean.

P

EXAMINE VOCAB LAB MINI-LESSONS

How can you put the Vocab Lab ideas to work in your classroom,

school, or district?

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