Blended Vocabulary: Digital Tools & More!

Blended Vocabulary: Digital Tools and More!ANGELA PEERY, ED. [email protected] @DRANGELAPEERY

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Elementary version out in July 2017

Secondary version out in December 2017

Goal Setting and PersonalizationWhat would you like to understand better by the end of this session?

What would you like to do differently in teaching vocabulary in the coming year?

Importance of Vocabulary

30 million word gap (preschool)

lack of background knowledge

mothers’ educational level

connected to reading comprehension

the gap grows over time…

writing and speakingachievement in all disciplines

Robert Pondiscio (2014) notes, “To grow up as the child of well-educated parents in an affluent

American home is to hit the verbal lottery.”

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

Rank These Words… Enigmatic Lachrymose Cupidity Peignoir Verbosity Flumadiddle Hircine Fete Kerflooey Sempiternity Palliative Selenology Heptad Foist Condesplaining Pedantic Guanciale Microvolunteerism Natter Huitlacoche Blurbification Wistful Mostarda Caterwaul

Learn New Words! Dictionary.com – word of the day via email WordSpy.com Wordnik.com

A New Model of Effective Vocabulary Instruction

R. Marzano, 2004 (six steps) I. Beck, 2013 (robust vocabulary instruction) M. Graves, 2006 (four components)

The Blended Vocabulary Model

Tiered Vocabulary

What Words To Teach?

Selecting Words (Collaboratively)

Name the unit of study Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Teach, teach,

teach!

Sort the Words 1 After the next big rain storm, put your boots on and go outside. Look at the water dripping from your roof. Watch it gush out of the drainpipes. You can see water flowing down your street too. Water is always flowing. It trickles in the brook near your house. Sometimes you see water rushing along in a stream or in a big river. Water always flows downhill. It flows from high places to low places, just the way you and your skateboard move down a hill. Sometimes water collects in a low spot in the land – a puddle, a pond, or a lake. The water’s downhill journey may end there. Most of the time, though, the water will find a way to keep flowing downhill. Because water flows downhill, it will keep flowing until it can’t go any lower. The lowest parts of the earth are the oceans. Water will keep flowing until it reaches an ocean.

Dorros, A. Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean, 1993

Sort the Words 2Great whirling storms roar out of the oceans in many parts of the world. They are called by several names—hurricane, typhoon, and cyclone are the three most familiar ones. But no matter what they are called, they are all the same sort of storm. They are born in the same way, in tropical waters. They develop the same way, feeding on warm, moist air. And they do the same kind of damage, both ashore and at sea. Other storms may cover a bigger area or have higher winds, but none can match both the size and the fury of hurricanes. They are earth’s mightiest storms.Like all storms, they take place in the atmosphere, the envelope of air that surrounds the earth and presses on its surface. The pressure at any one place is always changing. There are days when air is sinking and the atmosphere presses harder on the surface. These are the times of high pressure. There are days when a lot of air is rising and the atmosphere does not press down as hard. These are times of low pressure. Low-pressure areas over warm oceans give birth to hurricanes.

Lauber, P. Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms, 1996

Remember…“Teachable moments are important; however, they will not be sufficient for students to engage in complex texts. Rather, we will have to be much more strategic about word learning than our previous standards or instructional guidelines have acknowledged.”

S. Neuman & T. Wright, All About Words

Digital Must-Haves

Dictionary: Merriam-Webster

Chrome Extension: Google Dictionary

Fun Digital Tools

Great SitesFreerice.comPrepfactory.comDictionary.com (word of the day email)Wordspy.com

Free Rice

Lexipedia

Snappy Words

Analogy Games Antonym Games Compound Word Games Contraction Games English Language Games Foreign Language Games Hig Pig Games Homophone Games Idioms Games Latin Learning Games Literature Games Oxymoron Games

Parts of Speech Games Phonics Games Prefix Games Root Word Games SAT Games Spelling Games Suffix Games Syllable Games Synonym Games Typing Games

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/

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