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From the ORC CollectionMore Resources on Vocabulary and Word
Study for Adolescent Learners
Here are some resources from the ORC collection related to this month's theme, Vocabulary
and Word Study for Adolescent Learners.
Instructional resources/lessons:
Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In the vocabulary self-collection strategy, students choose the words they want to learn, offer a rationale for their selection, and agree upon words to include in a classroom collection. This strategy helps students to understand the meanings of new words, integrate new words in their conversations and writing, and make personal connections with words while reading.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First
Avalanche, Aztek, or Bravada? A Connotation Mini-Lesson Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–10 Professional Commentary: In designing a lesson to promote effective word choice in students' writing, the object is to start with something familiar. In this mini-lesson, students begin with an examination of evocative car names that require them to use their imagination to generate ideas about the cars based on their names.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Marketing, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First
Literacy Strategies: Knowledge Rating Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Knowledge Rating is a pre-, during, and post- reading activity in which students analyze vocabulary words from the text before reading. Developed by an instructional design team at Southeastern Louisiana University as part of a content area reading project, this strategy can be used in a variety of contexts.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First
Using a Word Journal to Create a Personal Dictionary Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Learning new vocabulary words is important for all readers. This lesson enables students to track unfamiliar words as they read fictional or informational texts.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First
You Can't Spell the Word Prefix Without a Prefix Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Starting with the premise that word study is intriguing and fun, students work in cooperative groups to identify, define, and construct words using a list of preselected prefixes. Students guess at initial meanings and spellings of words, then correct misspellings using spelling strategies developed by their work groups.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First
Professional reading:
Professional Development Tutorial: Increasing Vocabulary Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–12 Professional Commentary: This tutorial is a sample lesson from a Scholastic professional development session on vocabulary development. It is part of a comprehensive course on how to improve student comprehension....
Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–9 Professional Commentary: Of the many compelling reasons for providing students with instruction to build vocabulary, none is more important than the contribution of vocabulary knowledge to reading comprehension. The focus of this professional resource is on vocabulary instruction as a component of reading comprehension.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First
Vocabulary: The Key to Improving Comprehension Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–8 Professional Commentary: This resource describes two activities for helping students to learn unfamiliar words so they can comprehend texts more fully. The mini-lessons, designed for primary and intermediate classrooms, encourage students to make connections between what they know about words and what they need to know in order to understand texts better.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First
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