Vocabulary Background
0 When students graduate from high school their
vocabulary is around 25,000 words.
0 Students vocabulary grows about 3000 words a year.
0 However, if you teach your students 10-15 words a week
then at the end of the school year you will have taught
555 words.
How are students learning?
0 Family activities
0 Hobbies
0 Trips
0 Television
0 READING
Vocabulary Strategy
Morphemes
0 Use your knowledge of morphemes
0 to decode the following word.
0 What does it mean:
0 PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
Need some help?
0 Let’s see if context helps …
0 Because of his proximity to Mt. Saint Helens, he contracted
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
Pneumono - related to the lungs
Ultra - transcending; super
Micro – small
Scopic– related to a viewing instrument
Silico- the mineral silicon
Volcano- eruption in the earth from which molten rock, steam, and dust
issue
0 Coni ( konis) – dust
0 Osis – referring to a disease condition
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Morphemic Analysis
0 Students can learn meanings of words by locating the
words root, prefix, and suffix.
0 Omnivorous
omni=all
0 Carnivorous
carno=flesh
0 Herbivorous
herb=vegetation
vorous=to swallow up
Levels of Word Knowledge
0 Unknown word—I don’t know this word
0 Initial recognition—I have seen or heard this word or I
can pronounce it
0 Partial word knowledge—I know one meaning of this
word and can use it in a sentence
0 Full word knowledge—I know more than one meaning
or several ways to use this word.
Components of Word Study
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Concepts and word meanings
Multiple meanings
Morphemic analysis
Synonyms
Antonyms
Homonyms
Etymologies
Figurative meanings
Concepts and Word Meanings
0 You have 60 seconds to write single words.
0 You have 60 seconds to write single words about
summer vacations.
0 Most students can learn more words when they attach
them to a concept.
Multiple Meanings of Words
0 Students need to be exposed to words in meaningful
contexts in order to learn the multiple meanings of
words.
0 Write down the meanings you can think of for the word
BANK.
0 How would you explain these multiple meanings to
students learning English or students of special need?
Synonyms
0 Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning
as other words
0 Cold: cool, chilly, frigid, icy, frosty, freezing
0 I got hurt yesterday. I cut my foot on a rock.
Antonyms
0 Words that express opposite meanings.
0 There are opposites that are more appropriate than
others.
0 What is the opposite of loud?
0 She wore a very loud shirt.
0 The plane flying overhead was loud.
Homophones
0 Words that sound alike but are spelled differently.
0 Reign – Rain
0 There, Their, They’re
Figurative Meanings of Words
0 Idioms—groups of words that have a special meaning.
“I’m in hot water”
0 Amelia Bedilia
0 Metaphors
0 Compare two things by implying that one is the other
without using like or as.
0 Similes
0 Compare two things by using like or as.
He is a hotdog!
He is as hot as a dog!
Vocabulary KWL +
What I think I
know about
this word
What can I do
to find out
What I have
Learned
Word Map
Antonym
Synonym
angry
Example
Nonexample
PAVE
Prediction, Association, Verification, Evaluation
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Students write the sentence or context in which
the word appears.
They write the word again.
They write a sentence of their own.
They check the words meaning in a dictionary.
They examine steps 3 and 4 and write a better
sentence.
They draw an image to help them remember the
meaning of the word.
I never divulge a secret that a friend has entrusted to me.
Knowledge Rating
Rate your knowledge of these words
Word
Pedagogy
Semiotics
Literacy
Hermeneuti
cs
Paradigm
Know
Well
Seen/heard Don’t
it
Know
Verbal/Visual Association
Word
Example
Definition
Non example
Verbal/Visual Association Modified
Word
Picture
Definition
Example
Vocabulary Visits: Virtual Field
Trips”
0 What is exciting about a field trip?
0 What is educational?
0 How do we prepare?
0 What is involved?
0 What are the results?
“Vocabulary Visits” Prep
Steps
0 Identify a focal point/topic for the visit
0 Assemble at lease 5 texts for the “visit
0 Review books and choose a basic vocabulary for the
topic
0 Create visuals that support/enhance the selection
Taking the “Trip”
0 Jump Start & First Write
0 Introduce the topic, students briefly discuss
0 Students complete a “first write”: a list of all of the
words they can think of associated with the topic
 Group Talk –
 just like on a field trip, the teacher presents the visuals and
asks “What do you see?” Teacher acts as guide/docent &
mediates discussion.
Continuing the Journey
0 Exploring the Text Set
0 Read-alouds
0 Students read
0 Add to Vocab lists
0 Semantic Sorting
 Follow Up
Writing Activities
 Reports
 Stories
 Class books
Sample Vocabulary Visit: The
Titanic
0 https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/QIeeJZp91QGS
yA/vocabulary-visits-virtual-field-trips
Websites
0 www.wordorigins.org
0 www.dictionary.com
0 http://www.voycabulary.com/
0 Will create definition links on any webpage
0 www.readwritethink.org
0 Go to lessons, choose grade level, then “learning about
language”, choose vocabulary
Activity
0 Choose a topic and a vocabulary activity and explain
how you would implement it in your classroom.