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How do you teach vocabulary?
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Discuss your response to this question within
your group.
Choose a group leader and record your
responses on an index card.
Group leader should be prepared to share with
everyone.
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Margarita Calderón, Ph.D. is a Johns Hopkins University
Professor Emerita and Senior Research Scientist
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For formal discourse between teacherstudent and student-student interaction
around standards/goals.
For text comprehension.
For formal writing.
For success in tests.
For academic and economic status.
(Calderón, in press)
ExC-ELL:
Expediting Comprehension for English
Language Learners
•ExC-ELL—a research-based and
evidence-based instruction for adolescent
literacy, language, and domain knowledge
development.
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Tier 1 : Everyday words, social, instructional
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Tier 2 : Tier 2
words nest academic
content through transition Words,
Connectors, Causation, Time
Sequencing, Predictions. Polysemous
Words
 Tier 3 : Content Specific Language
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Tier 2 words nest academic content through
transition Words, Connectors, Causation, Time
Sequencing, Predictions.
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Some examples:
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Cause & Effect -- because, due to, as a result, since,
for this reason, therefore, in order to, so that, thus…
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Contrast -- or, but, although, however, in contrast,
nevertheless, on the other hand, while…
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Addition or Comparison -- and, also, as well as, in
addition, likewise, moreover, by the way…
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Giving examples -- for example, for instance, in
particular, such as…
Tier 2 words can also include polysemous
words across academic content areas:
solution
 table
 divide
 prime
 round
 trunk
 state
 power
 cell
 right
 radical
 leg
 left
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STEP 1
SELECT VOCABULARY TO PRE-TEACH BEFORE PRESENTING
CONTENT, TEACHER READ ALOUD, OR STUDENT READING OF
ANY TEXT.
STEP 2
TEACH VOCABULARY USING 7 STEPS WITH AMPLE STUDENT
INTERACTION.
STEP 3
STUDENTS READ, DISCUSS, AND WRITE USING NEW
VOCABULARY
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At your table, determine what tier you think
the words would fall into.
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Use the tiering guideline at your table to
assist you in placing them in the proper tier.
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Never fear...be prepared to share!
One gray winter day the elderly queen
summoned all her grandchildren to the
castle. “I have been fortunate to have lived a
long life,” she said. “But in time your
generation will rule the country. You must
work persistently to help the people and take
care of the land.
“We will always work hard,” the children
replied.
“You must also be faithful to your brothers
and sisters, no matter what,” the queen said.
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Simple
Words
Process, Idioms,
Sophisticated
Content Words,
Key vocabulary
wish
rule
summoned
gray
take care
fortunate
queen
replied
generation
castle
no matter what
persistently
elderly
faithful
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Read the story at your table and underline
words or phrases you "think" an 5th grade
student might have difficulty understanding.
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Focus on words that would be specific to
their comprehension (understanding) of the
story.
From one day to the next, weather can have a big
effect on your life. When it rains, you have to stay
indoors or carry an umbrella. When it's cold, you have to
bundle up.
Over the course of hundreds, thousands, and millions
of years, weather trends affect life on Earth in more
dramatic ways. Ice ages or long droughts, for example,
can wipe out certain types of plants and animals.
Although many species manage to survive such
extreme, long-term climate shifts, their living conditions
also change.
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
1.Teacher says the word.
2.Teacher asks students to repeat the word 3 times. (can
be done in a funny voice, a character voice, with
inflection, facial expressions, gestures, etc...)
3.Teacher states the word in context from the text.
4.Teacher provides the dictionary definition(s).
5.Teacher explains meaning with student-friendly
definitions.
6.Engages students in activities to develop
word/concept knowledge.
7.Teacher highlights grammar, spelling, polysemy, etc.
Example with ExC-ELL
Template
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Turn and Talk
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Any thought provoking questions???
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3-2-1: 3 things you learned, 2 things you
still want to know, 1 question you still have
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Video: No matter how small...words touch us
all.