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Learning Words Inside and Out: Creating a School-Wide Vocabulary Initiative

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Learning Words Inside and Out: Creating a School-Wide Vocabulary Initiative

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    1. Learning Words Inside and Out: Creating a School-Wide Vocabulary Initiative Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey San Diego State University Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2008). Word wise and content rich: Five essential steps to teaching academic vocabulary. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

    2. How Often Has This Occurred? In a U.S. History class, the teacher says,Look up these vocabulary words and write a sentence using the word. Appeal (n): attractiveness that interests, pleases, or stimulates Shawna appeal to me from her good looks.

    3. Vocabulary Goes to College 165 college freshmen enrolled in a remedial reading course found that vocabulary was the only significant variable to make a statistically significant contribution to measures of literal and critical reading comprehension, evaluation, and appreciation of reading materials (Farley & Elmore, 1992) Those with lower vocabulary scores were less likely to challenge information in passages (Baker, 1985) Less-skilled readers make limited use of context and over-generalize passages to try to explain the meaning of unknown words (McKeown, 1985)

    4. Learning Vocabulary? Both high- and low-achieving college freshmen readers: Used only rote memorization to learn vocabulary Didnt see why it was necessary Scored poorly on using vocabulary in writing (Francis & Simpson, 2003)

    5. The Numbers Game Need to know 88,500 word families by ninth grade (Nagy & Anderson, 1984) = 500,000 words TOO MANY! Lets cut it in half = 250,000 words ? 1620 days (K-8, never absent) = 154 words per day! How are you doing?

    6. Barriers to Vocabulary Development in Secondary Schedules require conceptual shifts every 50-90 minutes 4-8 teachers a day who use different methods and devote different amounts of time to vocabulary Schools that operate within, but not across departments Content area teachers who know their vocabulary, but not effective ways to develop it Belief that vocabulary is the English departments job

    7. An Intentional Vocabulary Initiative Make it intentional through word selection and intentional instruction. Make it transparent through teacher modeling of word-solving and word learning. Make it useable with collaborative learning. Make it personal by fostering student ownership. Make it a priority with schoolwide practices. Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2008). Word wise and content rich: Five essential steps to teaching academic vocabulary. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

    8. Step 1: Make it Intentional: Selecting Words

    9. Influence of Background Knowledge Catherine the Great, a minor aristocrat from Germany, became Empress of Russia when her husband Peter, the grandson of Peter the Great, was killed.

    10. Types of Vocabulary Tier 1/General Commonplace; learned from interactions with texts and people Tier 2/Specialized Change meaning with context (polysemic) Tier 3/Technical Specific to the discipline A starting point for selecting vocabulary

    11. The Problem: Too Many Words! 17 words identified in 2 paragraphs Ideal is 8-10 a week for deep teaching (Scott, Jamieson-Noel, and Asselin, 2003) Must be narrowed, but how?

    12. Questions for Selecting Vocabulary Representative Repeatability Transportable Contextual Analysis Structural Analysis Cognitive Load Is it critical to understanding? Will it be used again? Is it needed for discussions or writing? Can they use context to figure it out? Can they use structure? Have I exceeded the number they can learn?

    13. Using Word Lists to Identify Vocabulary Academic Word List (Coxhead, 2000) 570 headwords from textbooks Ogdens Basic English Word List Dreamed of a universal language 850 phonetically regular words Word Part Lists Focus on prefixes, derivations Do you know what saggital means? How do you know?

    14. Step 2: Make it Transparent: Modeling

    15. Teacher Modeling Brief (5-10 minutes) think-alouds Identify unfamiliar words to learn procedures for discerning meaning Show students how to look inside (morphology and structure) and outside (context clues and resources) words

    16. Morphology and Word Parts Affixes Root words Derivations Cognates for English learners Beware of false cognates! (embarrassed/embarazada)

    17. But Context Isnt Always Enough The documentary film March of the Penguins was a surprise hit in 2005. However, the movie neglected to point out that the population of emperor penguins is thinning. Since the 1970s, the penguins neighborhood has become increasingly warm. The Southern Ocean experiences natural shifts in weather from one decade to the next, but this warm spell has continued, causing the thinning of sea ice. Less sea ice means fewer krill, the penguins main food source. Also, the weakened ice is more likely to break apart and drift out to sea, carrying off the young penguin chicks, who often drown. Is global warming responsibility for the thinning of penguin population? Scientists believe so. (Gore, 2007, p. 94) Think aloud to clear up confusions about skinny penguins!

    18. Resources Peer resources from productive group work Dictionaries Bookmark Internet resources Model how you use these (Phone a Friend, dictionary use on doc camera)

    19. Step 3: Make it Useable: Collaborating with Peers

    20. Oral Language and Vocabulary Teacher talk dominates most classrooms (Cazden, 2001) Middle school math students taught to use heuristic vocabulary in discussions achieved a higher levels (Koichu, Berman, & Moore, 2007) High school world language students who constructed word maps with peers acquired more vocabulary (Morin & Goebel, 2001)

    21. Tips for Productive Group Work Establish purpose (content, language, and social goals) Variety is the spice of life Integrate activities into content flow

    22. Fostering Collaboration Partner and small-group discussions Jigsaws Student think-alouds Reciprocal teaching Co-constructed graphic organizers Semantic feature analysis

    23. Step 4: Make it Personal: Individual Activities

    24. Challenges to Independent Work 28% of high school teachers often or very often run out of time in class and assign the content for homework (MetLife, 2008) Should follow modeling, guided practice, and collaborative work with peers (Fisher & Frey, 2008)

    25. Independent Learning of Vocabulary Integration of schema with a focus on sets of relationships Repetition through repeated opportunities to encounter words in speech, reading, and writing Meaningful use of the words in authentic events (Nagy, 1988)

    26. Step 5: Make it a Priority: Creating a Schoolwide Focus

    27. Why Go Schoolwide? Schoolwide focus is one of the most important actions a middle or high school can take to improve achievement (Langer, 2001; Reeves, 2000) Focus on literacy schoolwide leads to long-term improvement in climate, achievement (Fisher, Frey, & Williams, 2002)

    28. Two Schoolwide Initiatives Words of the Week (WOW Words) to focus on SAT words Wide reading to build background, increase exposure, and foster interest in reading

    29. Words of the Week Five words a week (Fid, Fi: to trust) Affidavit, confidant, defiant, fidelity, infidel Grouped by affix or derivation Departments propose words Goal is to build vocabulary and teach patterns for unfamiliar words Introduced in English classes

    30. Incidental Learning Through Wide Reading Cumulative effect of reading: 60 minutes per day x 5 days a week= 2,250,000 words per year 2,250 words learned per year this way (Mason, Stahl, Au, & Herman, 2003) A bargain, considering that only 300-500 words can be directly taught each year

    31. Who benefits? How? Text must be at independent level (you cant learn from books you cant read) Older readers learn more words than younger readers Stronger readers learn more words than struggling readers The words they are likely to learn are those they know a little bit about

    32. 8 Factors for SSR Access Appeal Environment Encouragement Staff training Non-accountability Follow-up activities Distributed time to read Pilgreen, J. (2000). The sustained silent reading handbook. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann

    33. Independent Reading in Content Classes Choice Relevance Differentiation

    34. Lessons Learned: Professional Growth

    35. Sustaining the Effort Learn with and from colleagues Develop a professional library on vocabulary development Ensure that classrooms have a a range of resources

    36. Learning Words Inside and Outside When our teaching is at its best, our students take what theyve learned inside our classrooms to their outside lives. Vocabulary doesnt exist between the school bellsit is carried with each learner for the rest of their lives.

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