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Archived Information
Greeting
Hello (Hello)
Hello, how are you?
I'm fine. (I'm fine)
And I hope that you are, too.
Shake hands. (Shake hands)
With the one who’s next to you.
Shake hands (Shake hands)
And say, "How do you do?”
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Group Norms
Be respectful
Listen to understand
Participate fully
Take responsibility
for your own learning
Phonemic
Awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Source: US Department of Agriculture
• Framework for Reading •
MOTIVATION
DECODING COMPREHENSION
Word
Academic Comprehension
Recognition Fluency Strategies
Language
Strategies
Comprehension Monitoring
Syntax & Text Structure
Background Knowledge
Phonemic Awareness
(Re)organizing Text
Vocabulary
Automaticit
Concepts of Print
Sight Words
Phonics
Printed Text
• Newspapers - 68
• Adult books - 52
• Comic books - 53
• Children's books - 30
Television
• Adult shows - 22
• Children shows - 20
• Cartoons - 30
Adult Speech
• College grad - 17
o Haynes and Ahrens
(1988)
Two Types of Vocabularies
Oral/Listening
Reading/Writing
Sublist 1 of 10
analysis issues
approach labor
area legal
assessment legislation
assume major
authority method
available occur
benefit percent
concept period
consistent policy
constitutional principle
context procedure
contract process
create required
data research
definition response
derived role
distribution section
economic sector
environment significant
established similar
estimate source
evidence specific
export structure
factors theory
financial variables
formula
function
identified
income
indicate
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individual
interpretation
involved
Teaching a Word
Definition Examples
Explanation Non-Examples
Word
Generate Examples
• Tell about something you would be reluctant to do.
Try to use reluctant when you tell about it.
• You could start by saying something like. “I would be
reluctant to ___”
Answering Questions/Giving Reasons
• Why might a person be reluctant to eat a new food?
• Why might a child be reluctant to come here?
• Show me how a reluctant broccoli eater would look?
Put the new words in a Vocabulary Log
Which Words Do I Teach?
Pair up
Decide who will go first. (A)
(A) begins to mime something.
(B) asks, "What are you doing?"
(A) answers by stating something he is not
doing.
(B) begins to mime what (A) said.
from The Laughing Classroom
Word Parts
A second-grade teacher
wants to teach the base
word play
• Students brainstorm “play”
Brainstorm List
words • player
• How do the words relate to • playful
play? • playpen
• ballplayer
Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for
• playing field
Teaching Children to Read, 2001
More Direct Teaching of Words,
Word-Learning
Prefixes Suffixes
• “no” or “not” • Able to be
o able
o anti o ible
o in Relating to
o mis o al
ance
un
o
o
o ence
• TIME One who
o post o er
o pre o ite
o or
• NUMBERS Full of
o bi o ful
o multi o y
o tri
Defining Words by Parts
Example