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Improving
VocabularyIn the Age of Common Core
Standards:
Guidance for Early Childhood Educators
Susan B. Neuman
New York University
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Teacher’s
College
Press, 2013
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Tip of the iceberg
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All about words
o Knowledge
o Symbolic representations
o Build concepts
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Relation to
other skills
o Vocabulary is THE strongest predictor
of children’s achievement
oNot only in elementary school but in high
school
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Risk factors
o Children of poor, marginalized
populations
o Children of families who speak a
language other than English
o Mother’s education
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Hart and Risley…
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Poverty
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NAEP 2012
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Common Core
Standards
o Cumulative model of expectations
o Academic Vocabulary
o Building knowledge through texts
o Creating cross-textual experiences
o Integrating technology and print
o A focus on evidence
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NAEP 2012
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Poll question
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Common myths
o Children are ‘word sponges’
o They learn words through activities
o Storybook reading
o “I do it all the time”
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No. of words
children will
need to know
o The numbers are larger than you can
imagine
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Key principles
o Children will need explicit AND implicit
instruction
o Explicit: A ‘cave’ is a hole in the
mountain”
o As opposed: What is a cave?
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Key principle
o Be intentional in our word selection
o Words from core reading program
o Platypus
oAround
oOR:
o Ride
omove
o Question: are these words important?
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Knowledge
networks
o INSTEAD: insects, antennae, segments,
legs
o Parts of the body: brain, heart, lungs
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Key principle
o Camouflage
o Habitat
o Survival
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Key principle
o Ongoing professional development
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Poll question
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Creating a
vocabulary rich
environment
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Creating cozy spots
for reading
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curiosity
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Oral language
o Purposeful talk: Why do you think?
o Challenging words: meterologist
o Extend and clarify
o “Taking it up a notch”
oCompare/contrast
o If/then
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Eye to eye instruction
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Building
vocabulary
o Implicit instruction
o Explicit instruction
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Poll question
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Building
vocabulary
o The problem
o “A space probe is an unpiloted spacecraft that
leaves Earth’s orbit to explore the Moon, planets,
asteroids, comets, or other objects in outer space as
directed by onboard computers and/or instructions
sent from Earth.”
o
o Grade 6 text
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Difficult words
o ‘asteroid’
o ‘comet’
o ‘Atmospheric conditions’
o ‘space probes’
o What is similar about them?
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thematic vs. categories
o Traditionally, much instruction has
been designed around themes
food cart
grocery store
cash register
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thematic vs. categories
o We teach children words and content
in categories
living things
mosquito
insect
moth wasp alligator
reptile
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Difficult words
o Not necessarily ‘tier II’ words
o Not necessarily ‘academic’ words
o Rather they are ‘content-specific’
words: words that are essential for
learning content
• STEP 1
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An example
o Plants
o Stems, petals, leaves,
o Photosynthesis; oxygen and carbon
dioxide
o All about me
o Heart, lung, brain, blood
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How do we go about
teaching
vocabulary?
o A common teaching sequence
o Identify words: 8-10
oChild-friendly definition
o “A dolphin is a marine mammal. It looks
like a fish but it has lungs and breathes air
just like us”
• STEP 2
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Step 3
o Give children many opportunities for
guided practice.
o Pictures; rhymes; riddles;
oCall and response techniques
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Step 4
o Distributed review
oOver learning
oWeekly, monthly, and over time
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Step 5
o Progress monitor
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New words
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To summarize
o Teach content-rich words (5-step series)
o +
o Make sure these words are related in
categories (to form a semantic network)
o =
o SELF TEACHING DEVICE
o Ex: Is a spider an insect? A spider has 8
legs, and all others have 6, so it is not a
spider
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Materials to use
o Text sets
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Features of text
sets
o Focus on a topic of interest
o A series of books that use multiple
genre
o Pattern books or predictable books
oNarrative nonfiction
o Informational
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Activities
o Daily readings of books in text sets
o Start with predictable books (gives
children the names they can
remember)
o Move on to narrative nonfiction; spend
at least two times a week reading
these books
o Turn to Information books
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Why is it
powerful?
o Supports word knowledge and
conceptual development
o Enables children to develop ‘inter-
textual links’ as they compare and
contrast across genres
o Helps them to learn the ‘features of
information books.’
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Evidence
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Poll question
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Reducing
disparities
o Principles:
o The notion of acceleration
oContent-rich vocabulary
oOrganization of word knowledge
o Use of text sets
oGradual release of control
o Lots of practice and distributed review
oDon’t be afraid of challenging students;
they love it!
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Poll Question
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Contact
information
Book: All About Words (Teachers ’College Press, 2013)
Project Website:
http://readytolearnresearch.org/
Contact: Prof. Susan B. Neuman
Email: [email protected]