Q4 Week 2

Welcome to Q4 Week 2!  This week let's talk vocabulary acquisition! The process of learning & understanding new vocabulary to help support both oral and written comprehension. 

 Students ages 5-10 learn approximately 8 new words a day!

What are the key features of VA?

• Identifying keywords and their meanings using text features 
• Focusing on understanding & using vocabulary rather than simply defining words 
• Emphasizing connections to prior knowledge, other vocabulary words, and concepts
• Differentiating between scientific meanings and everyday use
• Facilitating differentiated instruction

Help your students understand the 3 Tiers of Vocabulary Acquisition! 

Tier 1: Everyday Words

Tier 2: Words that they are only exposed to a few times

Tier 3: Subject and content-specific words 

Simple Ways to support VA in the classroom!

Find some simple ways to support vocabulary instruction in the classroom from Edutopia!  I love the idea of embedding them into our morning message. 

How to support VA in Google Slides?
Students can create digital word collages to demonstrate their vocabulary acquisition.  Click the image below to see some examples from Literacy World Wide!

What to practice oral language to reinforce vocabulary?  

Try Chat Stations: Cult of Pedagogy!

Can someone please do a VOCABULARY PARADE?