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Module Seven

Hope Sharps
CIRG 653

Vocabulary
Words are learned gradually and in context

(Gunning)
The more a student knows about a word the

more likely it will stay in working memory

Vocabulary

Seven Principles for Developing


Vocabulary
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7.

Build experiential background


Relate vocabulary to background
Build relationships
Develop depth of meaning
Present several exposures
Get an interest in words
Teach students how to learn new words

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Vocabulary
Homophones
Homographs
Figurative language
Connotation/denotation
Multiple meanings
Proverbs

Comprehension
Introduce the strategy
Demonstrate and model the strategy
Provide guided practice
Allow students time for independent practice

and application
Assess and reteach
Provide reinforcement and implementation

Comprehension

Comprehension
Preparational Strategies
Previewing
Activating prior knowledge
Setting purposes and goals
Predicting
Organizational Strategies
Main idea & details
Sequencing
Summarizing
Classifying

Comprehension
Elaboration Skills
Making inferences
Drawing conclusions
Imaging
Question Generation
Monitoring Skills
Knowing oneself as a learner
Regulating
Repairing
Click & clunk

Language Structure (Conversation)


Create a rich context for language learning
Increase language learning opportunities
Understand that children learn language

easily through conversation


Consider what things make a child reluctant
to speak
Recognize the importance of reading aloud to
children
Create the need to produce language

Language Structure (Conversation)


Arrange for sources of new language
Realize that repeating language has severe

limitations
Think about which language structures are
easier to learn
Understand how children discover new rules
and find when to use them
Understand how children learn the order of
words and structures in English

Language Structure (Conversation)


Appreciate how children learn to say the same

thing in different ways


Encourage the use of alternative
constructions
Consider the impact of overloading the childs
grammar

References
Clay, Marie. (2014). By Different Paths to

Common Outcomes. Portsmouth, NH:


Heinemann.
Gunning, Thomas. (2016). Creating Literacy
Instruction for All Students. Boston, MA:

Pearson.
Read 180. Houghton Mifflin.

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