The experts from the U.S. Department of Education also strongly suggest that teachers dedicate a portion of the regular classroom lesson to
explicit vocabulary instruction.
For this action research I created an intervention to support new teachers in implementing a school - wide strategy for
explicit vocabulary instruction.
Lessons were organized around instructional routines that included the following: presentation of content and language objectives, brief overview of a «big idea,»
explicit vocabulary instruction, use of a 2 - to 4 - minute video clip and purposeful discussion to build conceptual knowledge, assigned reading followed by students generating and answering questions, and a wrap - up writing activity or graphic organizer to review and assess learning.
Now, as in past decades, most teachers devote little time to
explicit vocabulary instruction.
The consensus of researchers and educators today is that such students need
explicit vocabulary instruction.
When we returned to Fort Worth from the MSMI Summer Conference, we spent days developing a basic literacy framework, and we knew
explicit vocabulary instruction was a major part of that.
Planning Lesson Instruction (Graphic Organizers, Assessment Prompts, Learning Activities, Collaborative Pairs, Activating Strategies,
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction)
Together, the Vocabulary Workshop Achieve Student Edition and Test Prep Student Booklet support systematic,
explicit vocabulary instruction that will also prepare your students for the standardized exams.
Explicit vocabulary instruction begins in kindergarten, when students are taught vocabulary through modeled, shared, and guided reading and writing.
Some schools have actually dropped
explicit vocabulary instruction (#BadIdea!)
Module 6.2:
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Not exact matches
We made a concerted effort to include such practices — for example, by incorporating content - and literacy - focused interactive read - alouds (Strachan, 2016),
explicit instruction in
vocabulary (e.g., Beck & McKeown, 2007), and specific strategies for planning writing (Graham, McKeown, Kiuhara, & Harris, 2012).
Teachers at this middle school have engaged in professional development on a range of instructional approaches including
explicit academic
vocabulary instruction, the use of sentence stems, and various structures for small group discussion.
One of the ideas we talked about in our book are two ways of increasing
vocabulary, as through both
explicit instruction, the deep study of one word at a time as a class, as well as implicit
instruction, how do you support
vocabulary acquisition while students are reading, which is actually a critical time and a critical way of building their
vocabulary.
For emergent bilinguals (or ELs), research shows that
vocabulary instruction —
explicit teaching and guided practice to expand students» knowledge of the meanings of words — must be conducted consistently across all instructional formats.
appropriate
instruction in reading shall mean scientific research - based reading programs that include
explicit and systematic
instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics,
vocabulary development, reading fluency (including oral reading skills) and reading comprehensive strategies;
Helps students meet the rigorous CCSS in
vocabulary, writing, and comprehension through
explicit instruction, modeling, guided practice, and independent practice.
Reading Horizons products are based on the same principles that researchers have found to be the most effective for teaching emerging readers, struggling readers, and English language learners: Orton Gillingham - based reading
instruction that is systematic,
explicit, and multi-sensory in nature and provides students with phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency,
vocabulary, and comprehension
instruction.
Fostering
vocabulary development through read alouds can be made even more effective when
explicit instruction is embedded.
Vocabulary instruction, therefore, must be intentional — that is,
explicit — in order for it to be effective.
Researchers, reading specialists, second - language - acquisition experts, and linguists agree that
explicit instruction in
vocabulary is necessary for students to have robust academic
vocabularies.
Text Talk, a research - based method described in Bringing Words to Life: Robust
Vocabulary Instruction, utilizes explicit instruction to teach text - specific vocabulary, using the context of a read aloud as the foundation for introducing the meaning of 3 or 4 vocabulary words (Beck, McKeown, & Kuc
Vocabulary Instruction, utilizes explicit instruction to teach text - specific vocabulary, using the context of a read aloud as the foundation for introducing the meaning of 3 or 4 vocabulary words (Beck, McKeown, & Ku
Instruction, utilizes
explicit instruction to teach text - specific vocabulary, using the context of a read aloud as the foundation for introducing the meaning of 3 or 4 vocabulary words (Beck, McKeown, & Ku
instruction to teach text - specific
vocabulary, using the context of a read aloud as the foundation for introducing the meaning of 3 or 4 vocabulary words (Beck, McKeown, & Kuc
vocabulary, using the context of a read aloud as the foundation for introducing the meaning of 3 or 4
vocabulary words (Beck, McKeown, & Kuc
vocabulary words (Beck, McKeown, & Kucan, 2002).
Frank's areas of instructional emphasis include literacy, student engagement, differentiated
instruction,
explicit instruction, academic
vocabulary development and classroom management.
This month, the Middle School Matters Institute Blog focuses on
explicit, research - based
vocabulary instruction, including the Frayer Model.
It focuses on phonological automaticity and reading fluency while providing
explicit comprehension and
vocabulary instruction and opportunities for writing.
Includes a Teacher's Resource Guide (full - color, 120 - page guide for professional learning and
explicit instruction), CD - ROM (features activities, ThinkSheets, language supports, models, and assessments), Writing Prompt Bank (100 cards, 25 each of narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive writing prompts, Writing Resource & Journal (6 copies; 72 - page book includes space for students to build graphic organizers, a mini thesaurus with Tier 1 and Tier 2 words), Reading Rods Kits (1
Vocabulary Individual Student Kit and 1 Sentence - Construction Individual Student Kit), Reading Rods
Vocabulary Activity Cards (48 additional activities reinforce strategy
instruction), and Sentence Activity Strips (6 blank write - on / wipe - off 3» long strips).
Students learn over 100 academic
vocabulary words through
explicit instruction, with an additional 200 + words learned from context and from «just - in - time»
vocabulary1.
Research is fairly
explicit about the essential elements of effective
vocabulary instruction:
For example, even if the teachers have become capable of framing very
explicit language objectives at
vocabulary, sentence, or discourse levels, the rubrics that teachers tended to use for the written samples were extremely broad for use of linguistic resources so that if students had missed the
instruction on the target language for the assignment, they would have difficulty recovering the intended outcome whether on the
vocabulary, sentence, or discourse level.
Direct and
explicit instruction teaches phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency,
vocabulary (including sight words), and comprehension.
Teach academic and domain - specific
vocabulary that is vital to comprehension using
explicit instruction and the Gradual Release of Responsibility model
Snaa is also a teacher who provides clear content and language objectives that support the
explicit instruction of content
vocabulary.