building vocabulary karen jogan, ph.d. [email protected] peru tesol 2011
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Building VocabularyBuilding VocabularyBuilding VocabularyBuilding VocabularyKaren Jogan, Ph.D.Karen Jogan, [email protected]
PERU TESOL 2011PERU TESOL 2011
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English is Stress-Timed!
• Mary had a little lamb• Its fleece was white as snow• And everywhere that Mary went• Her lamb was sure to go!
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Salad Bowl• Clap the syllables in the word• Organize vocabulary by number of
syllables
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• Cucumber• Blue Cheese Dressing• Arugula• Cherry tomato• Onion• Avocado
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Time to make a salad!• Clap ingredients in a salad• Can your partner identify the
ingredients?
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Your turn!• Make a list of 5 things that you are
wearing today.• Clap for the syllables for your
partner.• If your partner cannot guess, point
to the item!
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Your turn!• Make a list of five pairs of words
that your students have problems with.
• Now, show your partner your list.• Let your partner tell you if the
word you are saying is #1 or #2
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Pronunciation Bingo• Bit• bid• But• Bat• Bought• beet
• Bait• Bite• Boat• Bet• bed
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Your turn!• What words do your students have
difficulty “hearing”?• What strategies can you use to
help with listening and pronunciation?
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Instant Words• Dr. Eduard Fry (1993) ranked
English words in frequency order.• For fluent reading, students should
be able to recognize the most common words “instantly.”
• The first 25 instant words make up 33% of all reading material in English.
Fry word lists and activities
• http://www.uen.org/k-2educator/word_lists.shtml
• http://www.candohelperpage.com/sightvocab_1.html
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Your turn!• WHY are these called “instant
words”?• What strategies will you use to
help your students learn Fry’s “instant words”?
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Irregular words• Difficulty Factors
– How the word “looks” and how it is actually pronounced
– Which words requires more practice?
•car•Although•Debt•want
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Strategies• Select words that are useful• Select upcoming words• Limit words introduced• Introduce similar words together
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Similar words• Walk, talk, chalk• Give, live• Would, could, should• Brother, other, mother
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You can’t pre-teach every hard word
• Choose words carefully– Important to understand the text– Can’t be predicted in the text– Likely to be seen again– Useful– Idiomatic - frequent
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Spell Words• Students
– See and hear word– Say the word– Clap syllables– Spell it letter by letter– Repeat the word
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Let’s practice• Conestoga• Portfolio• Through• Doubtful• Celebration• Comfortable
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• By spelling, students have to attend to all of the letters in the word!
• Students reaffirm learning through reading the word
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Word Banks and Walls• Personal collections of words• Teachers can create Word Walls
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Word Study Notebooks• Collections of words• Sort words• Draw and label words• Write sentences using words
studied
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Sections of Notebook• Regular words• Irregular words• Homophones• Personal words
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Use words to write..• Imagine that you are a weather
forcaster.• Use these words in your report;
• Today, rain, cloudy, north, seacoast, tomorrow, temperature
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Word Games• Make a crossword puzzle• Act out words (pantomime)• Map words• Categorize, Classify, and Organize
words into categories
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Criss Cross Puzzle• http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeduca
tion.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp
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Your turn!• Create a vocabulary game…• What words will you use?• What game will you create?
