Joanna VelardeMonica Hernandez

Christy KunkelKarla Campos

Enriching and developing students vocabularies should be a major goal in each academic discipline

Vocabulary is very important to reading comprehension. Readers cannot understand what they are reading without knowing what most of the words mean.

Critical reading is the ability to draw useful information from a book and often does not get the emphasis it needs.

Reading vocabulary-the words we need to know to understand what we read.

Word Study Activities Vocabulary Word Map Word Games Incidental Word Learning Independent Reading

Easier to learn meanings when concepts are apparent

More meanings to words than just one.Example- “bark” means the cover of a tree

in addition to an action that a dog does. Compound words Synonyms Antonyms Homonyms Figurative meanings

Example- similes and metaphors

Word posters Word maps Dramatizing Words Word Sorts Word Chains

What Is It?A vocabulary word map is a visual organizer that helps students engage with and think about new terms or concepts in several ways.

How Does It Work?The new term goes in the middle of the map. Students fill in the rest of the map with a definition, synonyms, antonyms, and a picture to help illustrate the new concept.

Help Me Visualize A Vocabulary Word Map.Got a good graphic for me

Children pick a work and act it out for their classmates

-Somewhat like the game of charades. The classmates guess what word it is.

“Action is a more effective was to explain a word than a verbal definition.” (pg. 189)

Charades is perfect example of a game that can be used in order to put the dramatizing words strategy into effect.

✔Lots of talk in the classroom– Discussion of events and

experiences– Discussion of books– Peer groups collaborating on

learning activities✔Listening to stories/books read

aloud✔Teachers’ modeling of curiosity

about words

Aal Differences in Quantity of Words HeardIn a typical hour, the

average child would hear:

Welfare: 616 words

Working Class: 1,251 words

Professional: 2,153 words

Two ways to provide opportunities for independent reading are reading workshops and literature circles which allows the children to read self-selected books that interest them and to learn words in context.

Teaching children to love reading on their own and teaching them by showing is so important.

Children learn an average of 3,000 words a year through reading, instruction, and other experiences.

Reading has the greatest impact on children’s vocabulary development and is the most important way that children learn new words.

The amount of time that children spend reading independently is the best predictor of vocabulary growth after second grade.

The books they choose to read should be appropriate for their reading levels. If they choose a book that is too easy or too hard, they will learn very few new words.

✔He tried to open the box with no luck. He

couldn’t find the key, so he decided to use a

smidget.✔ Say the word.✔ Look for clues.✔ Ask your self what the meaning

might be.✔ Put word in the passage; does it

make sense?

ReadingQuest .orghttp://www.readingquest.org/strat/wordmap.html Fostering Vocabulary Development in Elementary

Classrooms by Joanne F. Carlislehttp://www.ciera.org/library/presos/2002/2002csi/

2002csicarlisle/02csijcv.pdf Puzzlemaker.comhttp://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

CrissCrossSetupForm.asp Vocabulary in Beginning Readinghttp://reading.uoregon.edu/voc/voc_why.php Put Reading Firsthttp://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/

reading_first1.html Tompkins, G. (2007). Literacy for the 21st century:

Teaching reading & writing in prek through grade 4 (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.