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Vocabulary Strategies andEnglish Language LearnersVocabulary Strategies and

English Language Learners

(works for all students)


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Please sit at the table that represents your

department:

Please sit at the table that represents your

department:1. Intervention specialist sit with Math

or Language arts

2. PE sit with Science

3. Art with Social Studies

4. Speech Pathologist, Psych., guidance and principal - your choice


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ObjectivesObjectives

Review and practice effective vocabulary for ELLs (all kids really!)

Homework adaptations


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Warm Up ActivityWarm Up Activity ABC Activity

On your ABC chart come up with as many words as you can beginning with the letter in the letter in the box describing good vocabulary teaching strategies

How might you use this in your subject?


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Marzano’s Six StrategiesMarzano’s Six Strategies

1. Description

2. Example in their own words

3. Picture

4. Activities

5. Discuss with one another

6. Games

Learning EnglishLearning English Learning a_______c English is p______y one

of the surest, most r_____e ways of s___-____c success in the United States t_____y. Learners cannot f______n in school s_______s e______y without it. This v_____y of English e_____s the m______e, c______x f______s of English r______d for success in public schooling and career a________t. It involves m______y of a writing s______m and its particular academic c_______s as well as

p______y in reading, speaking, and listening.


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Learning EnglishLearning English Learning academic English is probably one of

the surest, most reliable ways of attaining socio-economic success in the United States today. Learners cannot function in school settings effectively without it. This variety of English entails the multiple, complex features of English required for success in public schooling and career advancement. It involves mastery of a writing system and its particular academic conventions as well as proficiency

in reading, speaking, and listening.


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Teaching VocabularyTeaching Vocabulary


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Why intensive vocabulary instruction…

Why intensive vocabulary instruction…

ELL’s vocabulary instruction must be accelerated because they are learning English later than Native speakers

ELL’s acquisition of deep understandings of word meaning is very challenging.

Content area texts include very sophisticated vocabulary

All standardized performance tests require wide-range vocabulary knowledge


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Lack of Vocabulary Instruction

“…classroom research consistently reveals how relatively little focused academic vocabulary instruction actually occurs in the typical K–12 classroom.”

Durkin found that upper-elementary teachers spent less than 1% of their overall reading instruction focused on vocabulary.

Scott and Nagy (1997) documented the scarcity of vocabulary instruction in 23 ethnically diverse upper-elementary classrooms, reporting that only 6% of school time was devoted to vocabulary, with only 1.4% allotted to content area vocabulary.


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The importance of vocabularyThere is a clear consensus among literacy researchers that accelerating vocabulary growth is a vital and often neglected component of a comprehensive reading program (Baumann & Kame’enui, 2004; NICHD Report of the National Reading Panel, 2000). NOT TAUGHT IN ISOLATION

Numerous studies have documented the strong and reciprocal relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension (Stahl & Fairbanks, 1987; Beck et al., 2002; Graves, 2002; Baker et al., 1995) as well as general reading ability (Stanovich et al., 1984).

Research focused on school-age second language learners similarly concludes that vocabulary knowledge is the single best predictor of their academic achievement across subject matter domains (Saville-Troike, 1984).

•Most children struggle attempting to derive meaning from dictionary definitions

•Lexicographers conserve space to have more entries, leaving out critical components

Dictionary

•Incidental learning from context is at best inefficient and unpredictable

•The odds of deriving the intended meaning from an unknown words is extremely low (5-15%)

Context

•No way to anticipate which words will be learned, when, nor to what degree

•Effective and efficient vocabulary instruction demands informed, intentional planning

Teachable Moments

Insufficient strategies for teaching vocabulary


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What is a gromph?What is a gromph?


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Vocabulary Development Vocabulary Development

Summary of the Research: Numerous studies have documented the

positive impact of direct, explicit vocabulary instruction on both immediate word learning and longer-term reading comprehension (Baker, Kame’enui, & Simmons, 1995; Beck, McKeown, & Kucan, 2002; Biemiller, 2004; Marzano, 2004).

Self-selected reading as a leisure activity increases vocabulary development (Anderson, 1996).


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Vocabulary Development Vocabulary DevelopmentSummary of the research, continued:

Likelihood of learning an unfamiliar word while reading is 1 in 20. The likelihood increases to 1 in 10 when children read easy narratives and decreases to near zero when difficult expositions are read (Shin, 2006).

Almost two-thirds of the typical child’s annual vocabulary growth comes as the natural consequence of reading books, magazines, and newspapers (Anderson, Wilson, and Fielding (1988).


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Vocabulary Instructionand best practice

Vocabulary Instructionand best practice

Frontload Vocabulary critical for understanding

Teach in a structured way, providing multiple opportunities and modes for learning (8-15 opportunities)

Repeat frequently in context


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Good Vocabulary Instruction Should…Good Vocabulary Instruction Should…

Allow students to be active in developing their understanding of words and ways to learn them

Allow students to personalize word learning

Allow students to be immersed in words through a rich language environment

Allow students to build on multiple sources of information to learn words through repeated exposures


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Traditional Frayer ModelTraditional Frayer Model

Adapted Model for English Language Learners


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Frayer ModelFrayer Model

Bonanza

Definition: a source of great and sudden

wealth or luckPicture:

Example: Coffee Growers in Costa

Rica

Non Example: Someone who is poor


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Vocabulary to develop “literate” language includes…

Vocabulary to develop “literate” language includes…1. Content Words

2. Process/Function Words (justify, explain, list, discuss, debate, summarize)

3. Words and word parts that teach English Structure

** Root words page 60


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Vocabulary should be taught in context, highlighted, used in sentences, given visually and repeated, repeated, repeated!

Vocabulary should be taught in context, highlighted, used in sentences, given visually and repeated, repeated, repeated!


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Emphasizing Key VocabularyContent Language (handout)Emphasizing Key VocabularyContent Language (handout)

Contextualizing vocabulary

Vocabulary self-selection

Personal dictionaries

Word walls

Concept definition maps

Word sorts Word generation Word study

books Cloze

procedures


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Vocabulary StrategiesVocabulary Strategies

Imagery/nonlinguistic representation

Personal Vocabulary Records

Integrated Vocabulary Instruction (NCREL, 2005)

http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/vocabulary.htm

http://www.delicious.com/amynock/esl







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Vocabulary (School Language)Vocabulary (School Language) Are instructions meaningful to

students? Do they understand each word? (such as compare or contrast)

Are there any multiple meaning words?

Are open ended assignments explained and detailed enough to follow?


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Wrap Up Activity: Vocabulary Quilt

Wrap Up Activity: Vocabulary Quilt

Write six words on the divided chart paper which may be a strand through each subject grade level


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Homework ASCD ArticleHomework ASCD Article

Quickly scan your topic area. What changes are you willing to

try to make homework more engaging and mirror 21st century skills?

What the research says...What the research says... Thirteen-year-olds reported spending an average of about

one hour daily on homework (Walberg, 1991). These data show that homework accounts for about 20 percent of the total time the typical American student spends on academic tasks.

Considering these facts, it is surprising how little attention is paid to the topic of homework in teacher education. Most teachers in the United States report that in education courses they discussed homework in relation to specific subjects, but received little training in how to devise good assignments, how to decide how much homework to give, and how to involve parents.

Moreover, homework often causes a great deal of conflict among teachers, students, and parents. Indeed, many doctors and family counselors indicate that problems with homework are a frequent source of concern when children experience medical problems (Cooper, 1991).


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Too much homework can be counterproductive: May 31, 2005

Instead of improving educational achievement in countries around the world, increases in homework may actually undercut teaching effectiveness and worsen disparities in student learning, according to two Penn State researchers. Most teachers worldwide are not making efficient use of homework, said David P. Baker, professor of education and sociology. They assign homework mostly as drill, to improve memorization of material either in math, science or the humanities. While drills and repetitive exercises have their place in schooling, homework may not be that place.


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Marzano’s met analysis Marzano’s met analysis

http://www.marzanoresearch.com/documents/GSASR_HomeworkArticle.pdf





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