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From the ORC CollectionMore Resources for Vocabulary for Content-Area Learning
These resources from the ORC collection support this month's theme, Vocabulary for Content-Area Learning. To make it easier to find just what you want, the resources have been divided into two categories: instructional resources and professional reading.
Instructional Resources/Lessons and Content Resources
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: AdLIT, 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: AdLIT, 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: AdLIT, Standards First
ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson engages and motivates students in building content area vocabulary through the creation of ABC books. Students select vocabulary words and terms related to a current unit of study in mathematics, science, social studies or other subjects.... Projects: AdLIT
Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: The Lex Files provide access to Latin-Greek prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Lists of quotations, legal terms, medical words, prescription terms, religious expressions, and various abbreviations from Latin and Greek classical and modern translations are also available at the web site.... Projects: AdLIT
Professional Reading
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: AdLIT, Standards First
Promoting Vocabulary Development: Components of Effective Vocabulary Instruction Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This professional resource is a 37-page pdf file, reproducible per the acknowledgment in the introduction. Its team of authors (Texas Education Agency) has included not only current research and inquiry in vocabulary development, but also in-depth teaching materials and explicit instruction strategies for vocabulary instruction.... Projects: AdLIT
Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, June 2005, Vocabulary and Word Study For Adolescent Learners Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The June 2005 issue of Adolescent Literacy In Perspective, which focuses on vocabulary and word study, includes a feature article, "A Little Latin and. .... Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS
Vocabulary, Visualization, and Implications—Improving Student Achievement on Geometric Test Items (Webcast Article) Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This article was written as background information for viewers of the first in a series of three webcasts discussing issues related to the mathematics portion of the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT). The first webcast, aired April 29, 2008, focused on analysis of student responses to geometry items on the OGT....
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