Academic Vocabulary - Orange County Reading Association学术词汇阅读协会的奥兰治县[精品].ppt

* * * Word Everyday Meanings Technical Meaning in a content area Order __________________ ___________________________ ? Odd __________________ ___________________________ Story __________________ ___________________________ Good __________________ ___________________________ Pool __________________ ___________________________ Try it…Give a definition for each word to the person sitting next to you: * 4 Try this one! 8 X Find X * The Academic Word List (List of Academic Words that occur in multiple academic contexts across genres): http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/ Word Count (86,800 most frequently occurring words in English ranked by order of frequency) /main.php Other Resources for Selecting Words * Students should be active in developing their understanding of words and ways to learn them. Students should personalize word meanings. Students should be immersed in words. Students should build on multiple sources of information to learn words through repeated exposures Research suggests four main principles to guide vocabulary instruction: (Nagy Scott , 2000) * Parade-Pause-Pair Vocabulary The Semantic Sleuth Response Boards The Semantic Sleuth 4-Corners Multiple Meaning Carousel The Semantic Sleuth Squad Rise and Fall Definitions Vocabulary Memory Boxes Activities that utilize the 4 principles of effective vocabulary instruction Excerpted from Bowers Keisler, 2010. * Games are excerpted from: Bowers, E. Keisler, L. (2010). Building Academic Language through Content-Area Text: Strategies to Support English Language Learners. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education. * Teacher shares a sentence using a vocabulary word and offers two definitions for the word. Students select the definition they feel is correct. Rise (stand) or fall (sit) represents the 2 answer choices. Students rise or fall depending on which answer they feel is correct. Rise and Fall Definitions * Teacher sentence: At the beginning of the brainstorming