1. Vocabulary Instruction in the 21st Century: Visual Tools for Teachers and Students Jennifer Jones Lake Myra Elementary School Wake County Public Schools North Carolina Reading Conference . March 20, 2012

2. Words are not just words. They are the nexus – the interface – between communication and thought. When we read, it is through words that we build, refine, and modify our knowledge. What makes vocabulary valuable and important is not the words themselves so much as…. the understandings they afford. Marilyn Jager Adams (2009, p.180)

3. Three Tiers of Words (Beck, McKeown, Kucan, 2002, 2008, Common Core State Standards, 2011)

4. People's knowledge of any topic is encapsulated in the terms they know that are relevant to the topic.

5. Impact of Direct Vocabulary Instruction Marzano & Pickering (2005). Building Academic Vocabulary.

7. Marzano 6-Step Process Tier 2 Words

8. Tier 3 Words – Schoolwide Process

9. Vocabulary Notebooks

10. Marzano 6-Step Process

11. Graphic Organizers

12. Vocabulary Games Anchor Charts

13. Beck’s Text Talk Lessons

15. High Tech Tools Web 2.0 Tools

16. Web Tool #1 Web Tool #1 – Word Clouds Word Clouds Wordle, Tagxedo, Image Chef, ABCya Word Clouds

19. Web Tool #2 Web Tool #2 – Thesauruses & Dictionaries Online Thesauruses & Dictionaries Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus, WordSift, Visuwords, Wordnik

20. Visual representations and connections

24. Web Tool #3 – Search Engines Ask.com, Destiny

26. Destiny School Library System

27. Web Tool #4 – Static Creations & Presentations Big Huge Labs, Glogster, Smilebox

28. Instead of a motivational poster, Create a vocabulary poster.

31. Web Tool #5 –Dynamic Creations & Presentations Animoto, Tubes (You, School, Teacher), Prezi

33. • YouTube Video https://wakeelementaryscience.pbworks.com/w/page/33255398/Video %20Links

35. Web Tool #6 – Google Tools

38. Thank You! Thank You! Jennifer Jones – jjones2@wcpss.net helloliteracy.blogspot.com