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What’s in a Word?
Academic Vocabulary Development for ELLs CCRC 2014
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Essential Questions
- How do ELLs learn academic
vocabulary?
- What strategies can we use to
teach academic vocabulary?
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What s in a Word? Academic Vocabulary Development for ELLs - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
What s in a Word? Academic Vocabulary Development for ELLs - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
What s in a Word? Academic Vocabulary Development for ELLs CCRC 2014 1 Essential Questions How do ELLs learn academic vocabulary? What strategies can we use to teach academic vocabulary? 2 Why does vocabulary matter?
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Why does vocabulary matter?
- Of the six anchor standards in the
MdCCRS, three specifically are about vocabulary!
- The use of age-appropriate academic
language is a part of WIDA’s Standards Framework and tools!
- Vocabulary size in K predicts
reading comprehension in 5th grade!
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How does our memory work?
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Excerpted from What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Epipheo
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k-12 sensory preferences
auditory
20%
visual
45%
kinesthet ic
35%
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Tier 1
pencil lunch bus jump read
Tier 2
evaluate require illustrate alternative suspicious
Tier 3
electromagnet zygote virus tangent apartheid
Choosing words to teach
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Marzano’s six steps
- 1. explain
- 2. restate
- 3. illustrate
- 4. record
- 5. discuss
- 6. review
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Learning stations
foldables Picture Word Inductive Method debate (elementary) graphic organizers songs and rhymes debate (secondary)
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Takeaways?
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A Challenge
AND Thanks!
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