Building+Vocabulary

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 * Building student’s vocabulary will enhance their ability to express themselves more effectively in the future. Students learn and retain concepts when they understand vocabulary. Teachers can help build students vocabulary in various ways. The following is Marzano’s building vocabulary strategy which consists of six steps. **

 · Provide examples of the term from your own experience · Tell or read a story that integrates the term · Describe your own mental picture of the term · Find or create pictures that explain the term
 * 1. Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term (Student Friendly) **

 · Help students develop understanding so they can describe word in own words · Must be student’s original ideas, not copying the teacher · Associate new term with those already known
 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2. Students restate the description, explanation, or example in their own words. **

**<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">3. Ask students to construct a picture, symbol, or graphic representing the word. ** <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> · <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Provide examples of student’s drawings that represent the ideas <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Play “Pictionary” <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Draw an example of the term <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Dramatize the term using speech bubbles <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Let them find a picture on the internet, if necessary

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 * <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This is an example of the Vocabulary Worksheet that can be used: **

<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> · <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Highlight prefixes, suffixes, root words that will help students remember the meaning of the term <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Identify synonyms and antonyms for the term <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">List related words <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Write incomplete analogies for students to complete <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Allow students to write (or draw) their own analogies <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Sort or classify words <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Compare similarities and differences
 * 4. Engage students periodically in activities that help them add to their knowledge of the terms in their notebook **


 * 5. Periodically ask students to discuss the terms with one another. **

<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Think-Pair-Share <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Compare students descriptions of the term <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Describe students pictures to one another <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Have students explain to each other any new information they have learned <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Identify areas of disagreement or confusion and seek clarification

<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> · <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Pictionary <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Memory <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Jeopardy (vocab words are on the board, players make up a question to define) <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Charades <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Name that Category ($100,000 Pyramid) <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Talk a Mile a Minute (like Catch Phrase) <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Bingo (you give definition, kid marks the word) <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Create a skit (assign groups of 3-4 kids 3 vocab words to make a skit out of) <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Swat Game (post 2 sets of words, kids on 2 teams compete to find words first and swat with fly-swatter)
 * 6. Involve students periodically in games that allow them to play with terms. **



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<span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: Georgia,serif;">(un)official critique by Krista Moser

I love the idea of incorporating games into learning vocabulary. It seems that many educators rely solely on individual learning of vocab, either by having the students take home a vocab sheet to fill out themselves, or by having them create their own vocab list. I am a firm believer in cooperative learning because retention levels are highly increased as well as the enjoyment of the learning process. In addition, associating vocabulary words with pictures is invaluable to visual learners as well as word association for other types of learning. Your page is extremely helpful with providing ideas of building vocabulary in the classroom and I look forward to using Marzano's 6-step method.