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Spelling Stages - Determining Instructional Focus

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Some Criteria for Identifying Tier Two Words

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Some Criteria for Identifying Tier Two Words

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4-5 Potential Words (leaving space for students to suggest two to three more):

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Michael Graves

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"Graves' second edition of The Vocabulary Book is a timely, valuable, language-friendly, and compact resource for K-12 teachers. Many strategies and suggestions were provided with sufficient detail so that any K-12 educator can confidently employ the plethora of activities with the likelihood of success."

- Teachers College Record

"a timely, valuable, language-friendly, and compact resource for K12 teachers. Many strategies and suggestions were provided with enough detail so that teachers could immediately begin to use them with their students."
-Journal of Language and Literacy Education (JOLLE)
Praise for last edition:

"An essential resource for all K-12 teachers, regardless of content area." -Oneota Reading Journal, Fall 2006

Praise for last edition:

"(A plan) broad enough to instruct students with small vocabularies, exceptional vocabularies, and every child in between." -Reading Today,vol.23, no.3, Dc. 2005/ Jan 2006

"If you believe vocabulary instruction is vital to reading, writing, and thinking, then Michael Graves' Second Edition of The Vocabulary Book will give you the tools for powerful instruction, as many teachers discovered with the First Edition. This book will shift your perspective and you will reap the benefits of placing vocabulary at the center of your instruction."
- Peter Dewitz, district level reading consultant, Mary Baldwin College

"Now that 'vocabulary' is included on the Nation's Report Card, teachers will want to know how to help students increase their word power. Graves's advice will be invaluable in what to do-and what not to do."
-Robert Calfee, professor emeritus, Stanford University

"This book is an excellent resource for practitioners interested in developing a comprehensive program for building vocabulary in children. It is also of great value for researchers who wish to design and test vocabulary interventions."
-Diane August, senior research scientist, Center for Applied Linguistics

"Michael Graves provides clear, practical, empirically grounded strategies and techniques for each component that K-12 classroom teachers and reading specialists will find invaluable. This is a must-have professional resource for the desk of all literacy and subject-matter teachers."
-James F. Baumann, University of Georgia

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"Graves' second edition of The Vocabulary Book is a timely, valuable, language-friendly, and compact resource for K-12 teachers. Many strategies and suggestions were provided with sufficient detail so that any K-12 educator can confidently employ the plethora of activities with the likelihood of success."

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Brenda Overturf, Leslie Montgomery, and Margot Holmes Smith

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Word Nerds takes you inside classrooms at a high-poverty urban school and shows how two teachers implement creative, flexible vocabulary instruction that improves their students' word knowledge and confidence, enhances classroom community, and increases achievement. Leslie Montgomery and Margot Holmes Smith weave vocabulary into each school day using multisensory instruction that includes music, art, literature, movement, games, drama, writing, test-taking skills, and technology. Along the way, they turn every student into a lover of language.

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Word Nerds takes you inside classrooms at a high-poverty urban school and shows how two teachers implement creative, flexible vocabulary instruction that improves their students' word knowledge and confidence, enhances classroom community, and increases achievement. Leslie Montgomery and Margot Holmes Smith weave vocabulary into each school day using multisensory instruction that includes music, art, literature, movement, games, drama, writing, test-taking skills, and technology. Alo

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: What's the Big Deal About Vocabulary Instruction?
Chapter 2: Classrooms That Foster Word Confidence
Chapter 3: Making Introductions
Chapter 4: Squeezing the Juicy Words-Adding Synonyms and Antonyms
Chapter 5: Active Vocabulary Practice
Chapter 6: Celebrating to Validate
Chapter 7: Spreading Vocabulary Wings
Chapter 8: Learning Through Assessment
Epilogue: End of the Year
Appendixes
References
Index

Word Nerds takes you inside classrooms at a high-poverty urban school and shows how two teachers implement creative, flexible vocabulary instruction that improves their students' word knowledge and confidence, enhances classroom community, and increases achievement. Leslie Montgomery and Margot Holmes Smith weave vocabulary into each school day using multisensory instruction that includes music, art, literature, movement, games, drama, writing, test-taking skills, and technology. Along the way, they turn every student into a lover of language.

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Word Nerds takes you inside classrooms at a high-poverty urban school and shows how two teachers implement creative, flexible vocabulary instruction that improves their students' word knowledge and confidence, enhances classroom community, and increases achievement. Leslie Montgomery and Margot Holmes Smith weave vocabulary into each school day using multisensory instruction that includes music, art, literature, movement, games, drama, writing, test-taking skills, and technology. Alo

About the Author(s)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: What's the Big Deal About Vocabulary Instruction?
Chapter 2: Classrooms That Foster Word Confidence
Chapter 3: Making Introductions
Chapter 4: Squeezing the Juicy Words-Adding Synonyms and Antonyms
Chapter 5: Active Vocabulary Practice
Chapter 6: Celebrating to Validate
Chapter 7: Spreading Vocabulary Wings
Chapter 8: Learning Through Assessment
Epilogue: End of the Year
Appendixes
References
Index

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No More "Look Up the List" Vocabulary Instruction (G3-8)

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No More "Look Up the List" Vocabulary Instruction (G3-8)

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Charlene Cobb and Camille Blachowicz

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"Just as word learning is incremental, so is learning about vocabulary instruction. Teachers need exposure to research, best-practice strategies, and fellow practitioners."
-Charlene Cobb and Camille Blachowicz

The way we've learned influences the way we teach, but the vocabulary instruction many of us received-looking up words and writing sentences or completing worksheets- just doesn't work. So what can we do instead?

No More "Look Up the List" Vocabulary Instruction is your guide to engaging, research-proven practices for teaching words effectively. Practitioner Charlene Cobb and researcher Camille Blachowicz share why old-fashioned methods don't work, what the research shows does work, and how to put the research into action.

Charlene and Camille answer teachers' most commonly asked questions about vocabulary instruction, including:

How many words, and how do I select them?

How can I foster student independence using dictionaries and glossaries?

How do I find time for meaningful vocabulary instruction?

How can I assess and hold students accountable?

"Without practice in the full range of ways we use a word," write Charlene and Camille, "our word knowledge is limited and falls from our grasp as the next cycle of words enters." No More "Look Up the List" Vocabulary Instruction offers a solution-deepen students' engagement with words, increase their exposure to them, and expand their word knowledge.

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"Just as word learning is incremental, so is learning about vocabulary instruction. Teachers need exposure to research, best-practice strategies, and fellow practitioners." -Charlene Cobb and Camille Blachowicz The way we've learned influences the way we teach, but the vocabulary instruction many of us received-looking up words and writing sentences or completing worksheets- just doesn't work.

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Pete Bowers

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Our Teacher Resource Book

Teaching How the Written Word Works offers an introduction to the core concepts of how the ordered way English spelling works. It uses a series of lessons designed to help teachers, tutors and parents make sense of English spelling along with their young co-learners. The lessons focus on morphological analysis with the matrix and word sum.

Research Tested

These tools are central not only to understanding how morphological families of words are structured, but also how morphology interrelate.

The main series of lessons in this book were the lessons I used in my Grade 4/5 intervention ( Bowers & Kirby, 2010) that showed generative vocabulary learning.

The lessons take teachers and students through all the morphological suffixing patterns and much more including...

1. Guidance morphological problem-solving so that you can use these lessons as a jumping off point to investigate any words that grab your interest or that of your students;

2. Links to other on-line resources;

3. Links to related Real Spelling resources.

When students and teachers work with word sums and morphological matrices for a little while, these are the kinds of questions that grab the attention of a class.

Integrating morphological analysis into shared and guided reading lessons

As well as explicit lessons taking teachers through "teacher-led inquiries" of words, this books models ways teachers can integrate word structure instruction into reading and writing in any content area by using morphological problem-solving as a tool for shared and guided reading.

By practicing spelling investigations with lessons in the book, you will be prepared when students ask you spelling questions that you are not able to explain right away. You will have practices the process of investigaging spelling, so now you can move into "inquiry-led teaching" by applying the problem solving skills you learn through these lessons.

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WW Revised Teacher Resource Book & 70 Matrices DVD

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Jennifer Palmer & Marcia Invernizzi

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"When we give every student worksheets to learn phonics and spelling, we miss opportunities to get our students excited about words and fail to give them the opportunity to meet the high standards represented by the Common Core Standards. Our students need instruction that makes them think and helps them apply their word knowledge to real reading and writing situations."-Jennifer Palmer and Marcia Invernizzi

We want students to be curious about how words work and develop strategies that work whether they are decoding words or spelling them. And our jobs would be easier if students couldn't wait
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"When we give every student worksheets to learn phonics and spelling, we miss opportunities to get our students excited about words and fail to give them the opportunity to meet the high standards represented by the Common Core Standards. Our students need instruction that makes them think and helps them apply their word knowledge to real reading and writing situations."-Jennifer Palmer and Marcia Invernizzi

We want students to be curious about how words work and develop strategies that work whether they are decoding words or spelling them. And our jobs would be easier if students couldn't wait for word study.

Yet so many classrooms are stuck in the cycle of unengaging, one-size fits all phonics and spelling worksheets.

Reading specialist Jennifer Palmer and literacy researcher Marcia Invernizzi offer better, more effective, more engaging practices. Their suggestions lead kids to not only make progress during word study but also to transfer what they learn about words to their reading and writing. No More Phonics and Spelling Worksheets show us:

why skill-and-drill methods and worksheets cause children to struggle or disengage

the kinds of teaching that research shows actually works

instructional ideas for word study can put to use right away.

"We can cast off one-size-fits-all factory instruction and try a more useful practice," write Jennifer and Marcia, "meeting each child where s/he is." Pick up No More Phonics and Spelling Worksheets, discover practices that better support literacy growth, and help everyone make progress.

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Contents

SECTION 1 NOT THIS-Worksheets/Workbooks: The Trap of Repetition Without Transfer
The Factory Model of Teaching Ignores Transfer
Stopping the Assembly Line: Taking the Time to Think
How Are Students Showing Their Learning: Engagement or Entertainment?
One Size Doesn't Fit All
What Does Each Child Know and How Can I Teach from There?
There Is a Better Way

SECTION 2 WHY NOT? WHAT WORKS?-Let Students Show Us What to Teach Them
The Logic in Spelling Errors
Student Diversity in Word Knowledge
How to Assess Word Knowledge
Meeting Diverse Needs Through Differentiated Small-Group Instruction
Understanding Development
Debunking the Myths About English Spelling
Critical Principles for Word Study
Spelling and Vocabulary: What's the Link?

SECTION 3 BUT THAT-Helping Kids Figure It Out Themselves
What Are Students Ready to Learn?
What Does Word Study Look Like?
Helping Kids Tackle More Complex Texts
Helping Students Notice and Name Letter, Sound, and Meaning Patterns
Allowing Ourselves to Be Learners

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I liked the specific activities to get the students to explore words and the connections between them.

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I liked the specific activities to get the students to explore words and the connections between them.

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I'm wondering if we will talk about spelling in the coming two sessions.

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I really enjoyed the talk about jokes and how they can be integrated into helping students learn more about content and inferencing within the school day.

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Great word work little nudges and bringing back thinking about multicultural learning

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Gots-activities for authentic word study

Wants-guidelines for word study.

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from Vocabularians (2015)

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Etymonline - Online Etymology Dictionary

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The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet’s go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms. It is professional enough to satisfy academic standards, but accessible enough to be used by anyone.

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SWI of "resistance" by Grade 5 Student, Samantha

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A great resource to learn even more...

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DAA G3-G5: Planning a Morphology Investigation

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Learning spelling patterns through meaning makes sense and would be beneficial to all students.

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Always good reminder to spell out the word in a word matrix in order to break down understanding with kiddos that the base word can change sounds.
-Mohammed

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Linking words with the same base together to teach spelling/meaning patterns.

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Affirmation that we're on the right track. : )

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Creating a Frayer-like word study template for our Inquiry vocabulary.

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Meaning vs spelling patterns

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Grade appropriate list of morphemes.

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Planning Sheet for a Grammar/Conventions Inquiry

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Planning Sheet for a Grammar/Conventions Inquiry

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Word Study - Process for Determining Instructional Focus

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Possible Lesson Sequence (adapt to YOUR kids!)

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Free resource from Stenhouse

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Free resource from Stenhouse