Common Core State Standards
ELA
Nancy Fetzer Vocabulary Strategies
Module #1
January, 2013
Dr. Elizabeth J. Marrufo
Department of Elementary Instruction
CCSS – Emphasis on Vocabulary
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Vocabulary
--Acquiring Vocabulary
--Three Tiers of Words
1. Tier One Words – everyday words
2. Tier Two Words –
--academic words
--robust vocabulary
3. Tier Three Words – domain specific words
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Reference: Appendix A, p. 32
Nancy Fetzer
Vocabulary Strategies 2-5
Word Masters to Story Blasters
With Movie Scripts
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Instructional
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Time
10 minutes vocabulary instruction per day
Replace current “Amazing Words” instructional time
Carve out the time from the literacy block
• Robust
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Vocabulary Words:
Tier II Words every two weeks
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Choosing
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a Read Aloud
Reading Street read alouds
Choose 3 read alouds from each unit (follow pacing
guide)
Spend 2 Weeks on each read aloud
• Choosing
Reading
5-7 Robust Vocabulary Words
Street Amazing Words
Select 5-7 Words that students will learn to
MASTERY!
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction:
• Word
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Masters
Week 1: Monday-Tuesday
Fetzer Supplementary Handout
Explicitly Teach each Robust Vocabulary WordProvide student-friendly definition
Provide Total Physical Response (TPR)
Provide a simple drawing
Students practice saying/doing TPR for all words
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Creating
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Story Blasters
Week 1: Wednesday-Thursday
Team-created story using the 5-7 Words
Fetzer Supplementary Handout
Teacher-Modeled Writing ActivityRobust vocabulary words practiced in a different
context
Used to teach, reinforce, & practice language
standards: conventions and grammar
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Reading
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Story Blasters
Week 1: Friday
Fetzer Supplementary Handout
Whole Class Vocabulary Practice ActivityRead Story Blaster in a unique way
Half the class: Readers
Half the class: Definers
Switch roles
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Creating
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a Movie Script
Week 2: Monday-Tuesday
Fetzer Supplementary Handout
Fetzer Workbook Grades 2-3: Pages 21-29
Fetzer Workbook Grades 4-5: Pages 23-27
Teams create a Movie Script using the 5-7 words
Teacher-Created Movie Script ActivityDraw Beginning – Middle – End
Add vocabulary words & labels
Students retell & act out numerous times
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Vocabulary
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Anchor Chart
Week 2: Tuesday or Wednesday
Fetzer Supplementary Handout
Vocabulary Anchor Charts – NOT Added to Existing
Word Walls
Classroom Vocabulary Resource ActivitySeparate anchor charts: (nouns – verbs – adjectives)
Resource for student use during writing
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Practicing
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the Movie Script
Week 2: Wednesday - Thursday
Fetzer Supplementary Handout
Fetzer Workbook Grades 2-3: Pages 21-29
Fetzer Workbook Grades 4-5: Pages 23-27
Practice 4-6 Times During the Day (“Line-Ups”)
Vocabulary Practice in Context ActivityStudents retell & act out the movie script
Wording will change and be fluid
Robust Vocabulary is practiced in context of a story
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Homework
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Week 2: Wednesday- Thursday
Fetzer Supplementary Handout
For Vocabulary Practice - Not for a Grade
Vocabulary Practice in Context ActivityCLOZE Activity with Story Blaster
Retelling Movie Script
Writing Movie Script
Writing a new Story Blaster
•Robust Vocabulary Instruction
• Movie
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Script Collection
Week 2: Friday
Fetzer Supplementary Handout
Review Past Robust Vocabulary
Vocabulary Practice in Context ActivityAdd week’s Movie Script to collection
Practice past Robust Vocabulary in prior movie
scripts
•Reading Street – Unit 4, Week 1, Grade 3
“The Man Who Invented Basketball…..”
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Recommended Amazing
Words
Audition
Duet
Ecstatic
Idle
Mock
Potential
Solo
Verge
CHOOSE
• Five-seven robust vocabulary
words (Tier Two words) to
begin with.
• Words that are not unique to
specific disciplines.
• Words that students will
frequently encounter.
Goal for students is MASTERY!
Word Masters
1.__ecstatic______________
2.__mock________________
3.__idle__________________
4. __verge________________
•Story Blaster Example
It started on a sunny winter day at my house. I was for
once ecstatic about taking my math facts test at
school, because I had studied the night before. I knew
if I passed my test I would get to go to a movie that
weekend.
• As I got ready for school that morning, I kept repeating
my math facts to myself. My older brother started to
mock me which really made me mad. My mother
hurried me into our car which she had let idle to warm
up the engine. The car started out of the driveway
when it chugged and stopped. I was worried that I
would not get to school on time to take my test, and I
was on the verge of breaking into a cold sweat from
being so nervous.
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•Story Blaster Example (cont)
My mother started the car up and drove me to school.
I was on time!!
• I took my math facts test and got all the problems
right. I guess my mother was right when she said I had
the potential to learn the math facts.
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Movie Scripts
•CCSS Vocabulary Standards
Grade 3
• RL.3.4
Reading-
Literature
Language
• L.3.4
• L.3.5
• L.3.6
• RI.3.4
ReadingInfo Text
Speaking
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Listening
• SL.3.5
• SL.3.6
Vocabulary
Essential for
Students’ Writing
Skills