January 17, 2013

Dear Super Stars,

Good Morning! Thank you for joining us for the Vocabulary Professional Development. Please sign-in and enjoy a treat. Did you remember to bring your Professional Learning Log?

Sincerely,

Mrs. Janz and Mrs. Porter

Good Morning …. My favorite thing to do on a snow day is….

Desired Outcomes

1.To articulate the

importance of

vocabulary instruction

2.To demonstrate

understanding of the 3

Tiers of Words

3.To explain Marzano’s

Six Steps for Vocabulary

Instruction

Mini PD Norms

•Start and end on time•Be an active participant•Allow time for questions and discussions•Take what you can use •Be willing to try something new

MNPS Professional Development Vision

  Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools provides all stakeholders

quality professional development for adult learning that results in the

growth of the whole child and the improvement of student learning.

Maxwell Achievement Slogan

Be your best - achieve success!

What’s Vocabulary ?

Vocabulary Knowledge

Learning, as a language based activity, is fundamentally and profoundly dependent on vocabulary knowledge. Learners must have

access to the meanings of words that teachers, or their surrogates (e.g., other adults, books, films, etc.) use to guide them into contemplating known concepts in novel ways (i.e., to learn something

new).

Baker, Simmons, & Kame’enui,

1998

Closing the Achievement Gap

It is now well accepted that the chief cause of the achievement gap between

socioeconomic groups is the language gap.

- E.D. Hirsch (2003)

Meaningful Differences

Free and Reduced Lunch at Maxwell – 77 %

Expectations for Maxwell

• Weekly list of grade level vocabulary words are included in lesson plan binder

• Weekly vocabulary words are posted in the classroom

• Explicit vocabulary instruction

Choosing Vocabulary Words

Isabel Beck’s Three Tier Model for choosing vocabulary words from text.

Tier 3 - Low Frequency Words Technical Words

Tier 2 - Words to Teach High Frequency

High Utility

Tier 1 - Know, Common Words

Tiers of Words

• Tier 1 • Basic vocabulary – happy, cold, talk • Clearly important – Especially for ELL’s • Easy, decodable and already familiar • Connected with prior knowledge

• Tier 2 • High frequency – avoid, fortunate, industrious • Play a large role in verbal functioning across a variety of

domains

• Tier 3 • Low frequency • May be to specific domains

Tier 1, 2, 3 Sort

Tier 3 - Low Frequency Words Technical Words

Tier 2 - Words to Teach High Frequency

High Utility

Tier 1 - Know, Common Words

Activity: Sort the words into the appropriate tiers.

How to select vocabulary words…

•Standards Rl.2.3 Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats,

alliteration, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

•Content Landforms, government, citizenship, cycle, hibernate, capacity

Selecting Words • Select a handful of words to pre-

teach• Select words to pre-teach carefully

Choose words that represent major concepts or key ideas in the story

Choose words that not used in everyday language

Don’t choose words where illustrations or context clues “teach” word meaning

Selecting Words

• Pre-teaching should be direct and brief

• Pre-taught words should be on individual word cards or presented only one at a time

Six Step Process for Teaching New Terms

1.Explain - Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term

2.Restate - Ask students to restate the description, explanation, or example in their own words

3.Show - Ask students to construct a picture, symbol, or graphic representing the term

Six Step Process for Teaching New Terms

4. Activities- Engage students periodically in activities that help them add to their knowledge of the terms in their notebooks

5. Discuss - Periodically ask students to discuss the terms with one another

6. Games - Involve students periodically in games that allow them to play with terms

Word Wall - Art

Word Wall –P.E.

Word Wall - Art

Word Wall

Word Wall

Word Wall

Word Wall

Chunking Word Wall

Resources

• Games http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/strategies.html