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Word Consciousness - Answer✅✅Awareness of words and their meanings as well as
interest in their usage.
Conversational vocabulary (Tier 1) - Answer✅✅Informal language: most basic,
everyday speech that is familiar to students
Academic Vocabulary (Tier 2) - Answer✅✅Formal language: high frequency words
that are found in many different subject discipline (Ex. examine, identify, authority)
Content Specific Vocabulary (Tier 3) - Answer✅✅Subject specific vocabulary: found
in science, math, social studies (ex. hypothesis, photosynthesis)
Systematic Explicit Instruction - Answer✅✅High structure and sequenced
instruction
Needs to be very interactive
Matthew Effect - Answer✅✅"Rich get richer and the poor get poorer"
The gap between strong and weak readers will only widen when no one is catching
any literacy difficulties and students are not receiving proper instruction
, 3 types of vocabulary practice - Answer✅✅deliberate, spaced, and retrieval
- goes well with "I do, we do, you do", modeling and instruction
Wide reading - Answer✅✅Reading a wide variety of genres, styles, and purposes
Will expose students to more reading and will help them learn more vocabulary
Cognates - Answer✅✅Words that look similar and have the same meaning in two
languages. (good to connect with for ELs)
Semantics - Answer✅✅Meanings of words, phrases, and sentences
Morphology - Answer✅✅The structure and form of words (affixes and roots)
Listening Vocabulary - Answer✅✅words you understand when listening to others
speak.
Speaking Vocabulary - Answer✅✅words you use when you talk. smaller than
listening vocabulary
Writing Vocabulary - Answer✅✅words you use when you write.
sight vocabulary - Answer✅✅words that a child can immediately recognize and
pronounce correctly while reading
Meaning Vocabulary - Answer✅✅words you understand when reading silently.
background knowledge - Answer✅✅Reader's knowledge about the topic
- Students will have a harder time comprehending what they have read if they lack
essential background knowledge
The Role of vocabulary in Fluency - Answer✅✅knowing the meaning of words will
help in achievement of swift and accurate word recognition
Role of vocabulary and reading comprehension - Answer✅✅Students vocabulary is
key indicator and predictor of Students understanding of what they are reading
(Comprehension = being able to explain words and their meanings)
Role of Academic Language and Comprehension - Answer✅✅If there is a lack of
proficiency with academic language that can prevent proper comprehension
Role of Background Knowledge and Comprehension - Answer✅✅to comprehend a
text readers need to have developed:
- meaning vocabulary
- academic language knowledge
- background knowledge
, Important words/Vocabulary to teach: - Answer✅✅For fluency: The more frequent
a word appears the more important it is to teach
For Utility: Is knowing the word essential for comprehension? if yes, it should be
taught
Level of Knowledge: The less a student knows about the word, the more important it
is to teach it (especially unknown words)
Non technical words Students need to know - Answer✅✅Identify, define, illustrate,
summarize, classify
Morpheme - Answer✅✅in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may
be a word or any affix
bound morpheme - Answer✅✅A morpheme that must be "bound" with another
morpheme to form a word and cannot occur alone (Ex: un-, -est, -es, -ed, pre-)
free morpheme - Answer✅✅a morpheme that can stand alone as a word (ex. test,
walk)
Research Based Instruction Strategies: - Answer✅✅- Provide Students with
vocabulary definitions that are kid friendly and easy to understand
- After S learns vocabulary have them read it in a sentence, paragraph, then write
using the target word(s)
- Students need to speak, read, and write words they are learning
GIVE AS MUCH EXPOSURE AND PRACTICE AS POSSIBLE
4 components of vocabulary instruction - Answer✅✅1. Direct instruction of specific
words
2. Teaching students independent word learning strategies
3. Developing word consciousness
4. Encouraging wide reading
Contextual Redefinition (Direct teaching of specific words) - Answer✅✅use of
context surrounding the target word and cooperate learning
Semantic/word Maps (Direct teaching of specific words) - Answer✅✅Place the
target word in center and have supporting information in outside bubbles to help
activate prior knowledge
Semantic Feature Analysis (Direct teaching of specific words) - Answer✅✅A graphic
organizer using a grid to compare a series of words or other items on a number of
characteristics.
(looks at meaning, context)
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Word Consciousness - Answer✅✅Awareness of words and their meanings as well as
interest in their usage.
Conversational vocabulary (Tier 1) - Answer✅✅Informal language: most basic,
everyday speech that is familiar to students
Academic Vocabulary (Tier 2) - Answer✅✅Formal language: high frequency words
that are found in many different subject discipline (Ex. examine, identify, authority)
Content Specific Vocabulary (Tier 3) - Answer✅✅Subject specific vocabulary: found
in science, math, social studies (ex. hypothesis, photosynthesis)
Systematic Explicit Instruction - Answer✅✅High structure and sequenced
instruction
Needs to be very interactive
Matthew Effect - Answer✅✅"Rich get richer and the poor get poorer"
The gap between strong and weak readers will only widen when no one is catching
any literacy difficulties and students are not receiving proper instruction
, 3 types of vocabulary practice - Answer✅✅deliberate, spaced, and retrieval
- goes well with "I do, we do, you do", modeling and instruction
Wide reading - Answer✅✅Reading a wide variety of genres, styles, and purposes
Will expose students to more reading and will help them learn more vocabulary
Cognates - Answer✅✅Words that look similar and have the same meaning in two
languages. (good to connect with for ELs)
Semantics - Answer✅✅Meanings of words, phrases, and sentences
Morphology - Answer✅✅The structure and form of words (affixes and roots)
Listening Vocabulary - Answer✅✅words you understand when listening to others
speak.
Speaking Vocabulary - Answer✅✅words you use when you talk. smaller than
listening vocabulary
Writing Vocabulary - Answer✅✅words you use when you write.
sight vocabulary - Answer✅✅words that a child can immediately recognize and
pronounce correctly while reading
Meaning Vocabulary - Answer✅✅words you understand when reading silently.
background knowledge - Answer✅✅Reader's knowledge about the topic
- Students will have a harder time comprehending what they have read if they lack
essential background knowledge
The Role of vocabulary in Fluency - Answer✅✅knowing the meaning of words will
help in achievement of swift and accurate word recognition
Role of vocabulary and reading comprehension - Answer✅✅Students vocabulary is
key indicator and predictor of Students understanding of what they are reading
(Comprehension = being able to explain words and their meanings)
Role of Academic Language and Comprehension - Answer✅✅If there is a lack of
proficiency with academic language that can prevent proper comprehension
Role of Background Knowledge and Comprehension - Answer✅✅to comprehend a
text readers need to have developed:
- meaning vocabulary
- academic language knowledge
- background knowledge
, Important words/Vocabulary to teach: - Answer✅✅For fluency: The more frequent
a word appears the more important it is to teach
For Utility: Is knowing the word essential for comprehension? if yes, it should be
taught
Level of Knowledge: The less a student knows about the word, the more important it
is to teach it (especially unknown words)
Non technical words Students need to know - Answer✅✅Identify, define, illustrate,
summarize, classify
Morpheme - Answer✅✅in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may
be a word or any affix
bound morpheme - Answer✅✅A morpheme that must be "bound" with another
morpheme to form a word and cannot occur alone (Ex: un-, -est, -es, -ed, pre-)
free morpheme - Answer✅✅a morpheme that can stand alone as a word (ex. test,
walk)
Research Based Instruction Strategies: - Answer✅✅- Provide Students with
vocabulary definitions that are kid friendly and easy to understand
- After S learns vocabulary have them read it in a sentence, paragraph, then write
using the target word(s)
- Students need to speak, read, and write words they are learning
GIVE AS MUCH EXPOSURE AND PRACTICE AS POSSIBLE
4 components of vocabulary instruction - Answer✅✅1. Direct instruction of specific
words
2. Teaching students independent word learning strategies
3. Developing word consciousness
4. Encouraging wide reading
Contextual Redefinition (Direct teaching of specific words) - Answer✅✅use of
context surrounding the target word and cooperate learning
Semantic/word Maps (Direct teaching of specific words) - Answer✅✅Place the
target word in center and have supporting information in outside bubbles to help
activate prior knowledge
Semantic Feature Analysis (Direct teaching of specific words) - Answer✅✅A graphic
organizer using a grid to compare a series of words or other items on a number of
characteristics.
(looks at meaning, context)
