Vocabulary Tier II

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Tier II Vocabulary:
What are we talking about?
Tier 3 “Low frequency wordsrarely seen in text”
Tier 2 “High frequency words
for mature language users”
Tier 1 “The most basic wordscommon knowledge words”
Tier III
Tier II
Tier I
Target: Improve your ability to
judge your own word knowledge
Your should become proficient at answering
questions such as:
Do I know the meaning of this word?
Does the meaning I know for this word fit the
context?
Do I know the meaning of this word well
enough to keep reading with an adequate level of
comprehension?
Tier II (2) Words should:
Come from your text that fall into the tier two
category
Be words that occur frequently in many types
of text
Examples:
Tier II (2)Words should not:
Be every day words such as
Be content specific words such as geometry,
photosynthesis, geography
Let’s Review
Turn to this page… let’s practice
Tier I
Happy, Red, Sad
Tier II
Hazardous, fugitive, ambitious
Tier III
Geometry, geology,
photosynthesis
Time to Practice
Categorize the following words into one of the three
categories: Tier I, Tier II, or Tier III:
Book
Economics
Run
Sheepishly
Girl
Revolutionary War
Dog
Fortunate
Linger
Write the words under the headings on the blank table.
Turn to this page… let’s practice
Tier I
Run, book, girl,
dog
Tier II
Tier III
Sheepishly, linger, Economics,
fortunate
Revolutionary
War
Your Job!!!!
Starting TODAY- You will be marking
your Tier II words on your pink page. In
the coming weeks we will be using
these words for our vocabulary study!
Date Title/Author
Thinking before, during, or
after reading
Vocab Words
This will be used in the coming weeks to assess your
independent vocabulary study
Indicator
3
2
1
Word
Identified
Identified multiple
Tier II words
Identified some
Tier I words;
word identified
were Tier I or III
Identified few
Tier II words;
words identified
are Tier I&/or III
Elements
Words were
Each Word had the
missing few of
part of speech,
Most words are
the
definition,
missing the
elements(part of
example,&
several elements
speech, example,
illustration
etc.)
Definitions
Definitions were
details and
accurately matched
the meaning and
context clues in
sentence.
Definitions
accurately
matched the
meaning and
context clues in
sentence.
Most definitions
accurately
matched the
meaning and
context clues
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