Chapter 8 Developing Vocabulary and Concepts

Chapter 8 Developing Vocabulary and Concepts

1. Types of Reading Vocabulary

   • General
     • everyday words with widely acknowledged meaning in common usage
   • Special
     • general vocabulary that takes on specialized meanings when adapted to a particular content area
   • Technical
     • words that have usage and application only in a particular subject matter field

2. Tier 1: basic high-frequency and high-utility words that are commonly used in everyday language. Ex. Friend, Move

3. Tier 2: high-frequency and high-utility words; however, more commonly used by advanced or mature language users. Ex. scalding, reprimand,

4. Tier 3: low-frequency words, but needed to understand a content area material. Ex. Declaration of Independence, nucleus, quadratic equation

5. Word Exploration

   • invites students to write quickly and spontaneously (freewriting) for no more than five minutes without undue concern about spelling, neatness, grammar, or punctuation.
     • A diagram that uses content vocabulary to help students anticipate concepts and their relationships to one another in the reading material

6. Magic Squares

   • An activity sheet that has two columns, one for content are terms and one for definitions or other distinguishing statements such as characteristics or examples
   • Vocabulary triangles
     • Visual tool for providing students with opportunities to consider the relationships among word concepts and to apply those concepts in meaningful ways
       • Concept circles
         • Relate words in a circle, helps relate words conceptually to one another

7. Graphic organizer

8. List-group-label

   • Lists of words have been generated by the student,
     • have the class form learning teams to group the words into logical arrangements
       • then invite the teams to label each arrangement

9. Morpheme

   • The smallest unit of meaning in a word