For ALL Teachers Why Explicit Instruction Teaching vocabulary has been shown to increase students comprehension of new content by 12 percentile points Stahl amp Fairbanks 1986 Teaching words before they are encountered in text increases students ability to comprehend the words ID: 278237
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Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
For
ALL TeachersSlide2
Why Explicit Instruction?
Teaching vocabulary has been shown to increase students’ comprehension of new content by 12 percentile points.
(Stahl & Fairbanks, 1986)
Teaching words before they are encountered in text increases students’ ability to comprehend the words
by
a factor of 1/3.
(Jenkins, Stein &
Wysocki
, 1984)
Explicit vocabulary instruction is critical for struggling readers.
(Beck,
McKeown
&
Kucan
, 2002)Slide3
What is Explicit Vocabulary Instruction?
Goes beyond the traditional procedure of having students copy a list of words, look up definitions, and memorize.
Provides clear, unambiguous presentation of word meanings.
Offers multiple exposures to target words.
Requires sufficient instructional time.
Requires students to be actively engaged.Slide4
How do you choose vocabulary words to teach?
Experts suggest you teach 3-10 vocabulary terms in depth for each specific body of knowledge to be introduced.
(Archer & Hughes, 2011, p. 55)
Choosing vocabulary words to teach is often a chore of paring down rather than seeking out.Slide5
Guidelines for choosing words to teach explicitly
Select words that are unknown
Select words that are important to understanding the passage or unit
Select words students will hear, read, write and say in the future.
Select words that are difficult to learn and need interpretationSlide6
Choosing Words to Teach
Look at the list of words, choose 4 you would teach to your class.
Discuss your choices with a partner.
How do your choices follow the guidelines you just read?
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Lightning EffectiveSlide7
That was a trick…
You should not have been able to choose words from the previous slide without knowing more about what you’re teaching, your students’ prior knowledge, and the
purpose
of the reading.
Remember! Vocabulary is used to enhance reading; it should not be a stand-alone activity.Slide8
How to explicitly teach vocabulary:
Say the word repeatedly
“
Ladies and gents, the word is
bogus
.
Bogus
. We are learning the word
bogus
.”
Students ALL repeat the word
“What’s the word? That’s right, the word is
bogus
.”Slide9
How to explicitly teach vocabulary:
Break it up
“How many syllables in the word
bogus
? Clap it out,
bog – us
. Yep, two syllables in
bogus
.”
Student ALL repeat the word
“What’s the word?”Slide10
How to explicitly teach vocabulary:
Use a kid-friendly, content specific definition. Remember, you are not teaching
all
the definitions, just the one that is essential to the learning.
“
Bogus
means something that is fake.
Bogus
means something that is fake. So that means something in our reading today is going to be fake, in other words it’s (all respond)
bogus
.”Slide11
How to explicitly teach vocabulary:
Give an example and a non-example
“If someone has a fake diamond ring than the diamond in their ring is
bogus
.”
“The book on your desk is not
bogus
because it’s real, it’s a real book not a
bogus
book.”Slide12
How to explicitly teach vocabulary:
Have students use the word in a sentence. The sentence must be at least 7 words long.
“Turn to your partner and use the word
bogus
in a sentence. Number 1s go first, then 2s, then 3s. Go!”
Monitor student’s work, then ask for examples.