Bilingual/ESL Department

Dr. Romeo Romero

September 6, 2010
 Welcome
Warm Up Activity
Video I
Research
Six Step Process
Video II
Games, Websites, Activities
Group Project
Presentations
1.What factors influence
academic achievement?

2. What are the implications for

students failing to graduate
from high school?
 SNL - Seinfeld - History Class - World War II.
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 Add vocabulary cartoon here
Peoples knowledge of any topic is summed up
in the words they know that are relevant to the
topic.

Example:
People who know about skiing understand terms such as fall
line, snow plow, corn snow, unweight, powder, packed powder,
green slope, blue slope, black slope, mogul, carving, and face
plant.

The more students understand these terms, the easier it is

for them to understand information they may read or hear
about the topic.
 Many students acquire background knowledge
based on their experiences outside of the
classroom. When families travel extensively,
children are exposed to a variety of individuals,
experiences, and cultures.

Other students come from families with fewer

resources that have lacked such opportunities
and have not acquired important academic
background.
 Both types of students enter school with
significant discrepancies in terms of their
chances for academic success

With time, the gap in academic background

knowledge grows even larger, as does the gap
in academic achievement between the two
groups
 English Language Proficiency Standards
Texas English Language Proficiency
Assessment System
Proficiency Level Descriptors
English Language Learners
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
Language Proficiencies
 The vocabulary of entering 1st graders
predicts not only their word reading ability
at the end of 1st grade..(Senechal &Cornell
1991)
But also their 11th grade reading
comprehension (Cunningham & Stanovich,
1997).
 Given the importance of academic
background knowledge and the fact that
vocabulary is such an essential aspect of
it, one of the most crucial services that
teachers can provide, particularly for
students who do not come from
academically advantaged background is
systematic instruction in important
academic terms.
 Words used in schoolwork,
including words used in
each curriculum area and
general academic terms
 Leading researcher in education
Speaker, trainer and author of more than 30
books and 150 articles on topics such as
instruction, assessment, writing and
implementing standards, cognition, effective
leadership and school interventions.
Building Academic Vocabulary
 Dr. Marzano describes a six-step process in the
instruction of vocabulary:
The first three steps are to assist the teacher
in direct instruction.
The last three steps are to provide the learner
practice and reinforcement.
Step l: Teacher provides a description,
explanation or example.
Step 2: Teacher restates the description,
explanation or example.

Step 3: Students draw a picture, symbol or

graphic representation.
Step 4: Students add to their knowledge of
the terms in their notebooks.

Step 5: Students discuss terms with one

another.

Step 6: Students play games that allow

them to practice new terms.
The prevailing meteorological conditions, or
weather of a place including temperature,
precipitation, and wind.
 Determine prior knowledge

1. What do you think you know about this word?

2. Where have you heard this word before?
 Tell a story that integrates the term
Use video or computer images as the stimulus in
understanding the information
Use current events to help make the terms applicable to
something familiar to students
Describe your own mental pictures of the terms.
Find or create pictures that exemplify the term.
Ask individual or small groups to do some initial
investigation into the term and present the information-
perhaps in the form of a skit or pantomime- to the class
 Climate is the word that describes what
weather is generally like in a particular
place. If someone says that a place has a
warm dry climate, it means that the winters
are not really cold and there is probably not
much snow, plus the summers are probably
pretty hot without much rain.
 Select one of the following academic vocabulary
words from your content and provide a simplified
definition
Language Arts- personification, antagonist, flashback
Math- diameter, variable, circumference
Social Studies- tyranny, megalopolis, democracy
Science- energy, hypothesis, osmosis
 Remind learners to use their own words, no
parroting of teachers description
Request that students record these in their
Academic Notebook Worksheet, In My Own
Words (Describe) section.
These notebooks can travel with the learner as
he/she moves through each grade level and
become a compilation of vocabulary terms
mastered.
 Monitor students to determine if any
confusion exists.
Allow students to discuss the term with
partners or small groups
Provide more descriptions, explanations, or
examples if necessary

*If they have the general idea but are struggling with stating what
they are thinking, you might move on to Step 3 and ask them to
create a non linguistic representation and then go back to the
linguistic description.
Czar ( in my own
words)
A czar was like the
king of Russia. He
ruled over all people.
 Select a partner. Have your partner provide
you with a description of an academic term

Write the vocabulary terms and restate

description, explanation, or example of your
academic word in your Academic Notebook
Sheet.
 Ask the student to draw a picture, symbol, or
locate a graphic to represent the new term
Dramatize the term
Provide examples of students drawing and
your own drawings that are rough but that
represent the ideas
Allow students to work together
Model for the students
Request that students record these in the
Academic Notebook Worksheet, Draw
section.
 Add your own vocabulary drawing, symbol,
graphic in the Draw section of Academic
Notebook Workbook.
 Identify synonyms or antonyms
List related words
Write reminders of common confusions
Draw an additional graphic
Write metaphors and analogies
Compare terms
Classify terms
Write a cognate
Student records in Academic Notebook Work
Sheet
 Rules King Emperor Ruler Caesar Tzar
Leader Monarch Sovereign Head of state

Teacher is to faculty:: Czar is to leader

Principal Czar
AS
School Country
 Write brief cautions or reminders of common
confusions, such as false cognate

A. globe- globo
B. exit- exito
 Have students add to their term ( synonyms,
antonyms, graphics, cognates etc..)

Have students discuss and share with one

another
 Think-Pair-Share
Ask students to discuss, describe and explain
terms with each other
2 minute vocabulary BUZZ where students
share their work
Students can add to or revise their record on
Academic Notebook sheet
 Meet with your department as a whole and
review each others work

Select from 3 to 5 samples to showcase.

Use the Post-It tablets
 Quickly monitor and evaluate your students
understanding of new terms using the levels
indicated in this section
 Six-Step Process for Teaching Vocabulary
 Games are the most underused instructional tools in education.
Games help teacher keep new terms in the forefront of students
thinking
Games allow students to reexamine their understanding of terms
Students improve their academic vocabulary and their
communication skills (ELPS)
Provide opportunities for students to work together (lowers
anxiety level, practice of the English language )
Teachers need to set aside blocks of time each week or play
games in order to energize students and guide them in the review
and use of important terms.
 Jeopardy
Pyramid
I have, who has?
Pictionary
Charades
$1000,000 Pyramid
Bingo- you give the definition, student marks
the word
Create a skit (assign groups of 3-4 kids 3
vocabulary words to made a skit)
 Jeopardy3March.ppt
Games2NewDakota.ppt
 Using CScopes Academic Vocabulary listing
for this 6 weeks, create two games that you
will implement in your classrooms.

Be ready to present to your peers

Online Games www.its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/gameresources
Jeopardy www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames
Word Sift www.wordsift.com
Pictionary www.pictionary.com

Charades - www.charades.com

Bingo- www.bingo.com
Wordle- www.wordle.net

Vocabulary Websites:
www.visuwords.com
www.wordsmith.org
www.thesaurus.com
www.merrian-webster
www.metaglossary.com
www.dictionary.com
www.isualthesaurus.com
www.askoxford.com
www.alphadictionary.com
www.thsrs.com
 Average
Student
Gains Over
One Year
(Tennessee)

With With
Ineffective Teacher Effective Teacher

Source: William Sanders and Joan Rivers, Cumulative and Residual Effects of Teachers on
Future Student Academic Achievement, 1996.
Enjoy Your Class!