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| People have 5 Vocabularies |
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Definition
Listening
Words you understand when other people speak
Speaking
Words you use when you talk (usually smaller then listening)
Writing
Words you use when you write
Sight(reading)
Words you can recognize and correctly pronounce
Meaning (reading)
Words that you understand when reading silently |
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| Hows does vocabulay development influence fluency? |
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Definition
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| Why do some students understand in one subject area then other? |
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Definition
| because they have academic language in that area and not the other (math vs science) |
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Term
| 3 areas that a reader must develop in order to adequately develop comprehension? |
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Definition
meaning vocabulary
academic language knowledge
background knowledge |
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Term
| whats the relationship between learning the meaning of words and acquiring broder concepts? |
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Definition
a reciprocal..
the more you know the more you learn, the more you learn the more you know. |
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Term
3 Levels of word knowledge
how is vocabulary learning done? |
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Definition
unkown
acquainted
established
incremental. |
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Term
| When teaching vocabulary should we just teach only target words? |
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Definition
| No, we should also concentrate on a larger vocabulary |
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Term
| What criteria should be used to teach words? |
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Definition
frequency
how many times will they see it
utility
is it useful for them, will they use it
Level of knowledge
words that are in the unkown category |
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Term
| 3 tiers of academic vocabulary |
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Definition
Tier
sight words such as flower/sand
tier 2
words that appear across 2 or more areas of study Peninsula
Tier 3
used in only one area of study (amoeba) |
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Term
| non-technical academic language |
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Definition
| words that appear in more than one subject area |
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Term
| Vocabulary instruction for teaching meaning of words |
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Definition
Direct Instruction with specific words
(word sorts/contextual redefinition (front load)/Semantic Maps)
Independent Word Learning startegies
(moprhemeic analysis, contextual analysis (cloze activities), using dictionary)
Word conscienceness
(synonyms and antonyms (flash card matching), homographs and homophones(creating own dictionary |
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Term
| Vocabulary Development Assessment |
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Definition
Multiple word choice questions
definition
synonyms
Analogy |
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