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Post 7: Lessons 4,56. (pages (120-129)
Lesson 4 - Make words with prefixes suffixes and roots talks about if students know several prefixes and roots they could understand the meaning of an unfamiliar word. You could link the lesson to the theme or topic and have students find words that are related. This could be used for a whole class lesson.
Lesson 5 explains how using prefixes to brainstrorm and formulate new words.
Lesson 6 is denotation-connotation map. In this lesson students review denotative meaning and find connotative or associated meanings for each word. How this works is the teacher selects two to three words from the list that the students created. The objective is for the students to develop connotative meanings of the words and to deepen their understanding of the words.
1)Why is it crucial to build students' general academic vocabulary through discussion, writing, and playing online games?
2) Why is it important to engage students in meaningful discussion about words?
3) How can you reach a students who is below grade level to improve their comprehension by using vocabulary lessons?

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Post 6: Lessons: Exploring a Poem’s Meanings & Chapter 4 (lessons 1-3) (pg 103-119)
Important Pages and Quotes:
Exploring a Poem’s Meanings
“Open-Ended prompts and questions for discussing poems and Texts excerpts to introduce once students have heard the poem or short text for several times and enjoyed it (Robb, 2014, P.101)”
(Robb, 2014, P.104-105)
First steps: Feel, Talk, and Write About the Poem
Move into a Poem’s Layers of Meaning”
“What are your first reactions to the poem?”
“Are there words whose meanings you need to check?”
“Are there key words and phrases that spark connotations? Discuss these.”
“What is the poet/author telling you?”
Which words create strong images?”
“What is the author telling you?”
“What figurative language do you notice?Explain how each figure of speech adds to the images you build and links to the poem’s or text’s meaning.”
“What questions does the poem raise?Cite evidence”
“Which words create strong images?Discuss these with your partner.”


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Getting to the Root of Words
“If we can harness the power of these Greek and Latin roots to crack open the meaning of 90 percent of the English language for students… Daniel Morgan Middle school.. Developed a cross-curricular root word study plan for the first quarter of school. In nine weeks, seventh grade studied thirty-six roots along with prefixes and suffixes and created around 360 words.(Robb, 2014, P.109)”

“By building words using Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes, students can improve their comprehension of academic vocabulary and develop fluency with 90 percent of the words that appear in texts for grades 3 to 9. (Robb, 2014, P.111)”

Lesson 1: Prefixes & Lesson 2: Suffixes  
“To select a root to teach, it’s ideal to choose one that relates to the topic, such as revolution in history… You also want to take into consideration to the entire unit, not just one short complex text, so that students have opportunities to spot the root in multiple texts and contexts(Robb, 2014, P.114)”
Lesson 3: Expand Vocab with Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
“In this model mini-lesson from a unit.., students experience first hand what it’s like to learn a root and then build words to support their reading, writing, and speaking…(also) demonstrates how knowing prefixes, suffixes, and roots can help reading figure out the literal or denotative meanings of words(Robb, 2014, P.115)”

Discussion Points Worth Bringing Into Instruction:
I appreciated the strategy for exploring a poem’s meaning; the questions arranged by Robb truly allow students to break down a poem and evaluate their understanding of the figurative meaning. Furthermore, getting to the root of the words is another strategy worth mentioning as it has potential to help students understand the meaning of 90 percent of the English language for students. Getting to the root of the words engages the students to associate a new word’s prefix, suffix, or root with words they have come in contact with. Of course, curriculum development is an essential component of this strategy. 


Discussion Question:
Why do you think most school do not engage in vocabulary centered curriculum? Do you know of any of the Engage or the DOE curriculum plans that offer a cross-curricular root word study plan, (or any kind of cross-curricular word study plan)? Do you think all subjects benefit from vocabulary instruction that focuses on word roots?

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Hey guys! So excited to be kicking off our PLC!!
So I read the 1st and 2nd chapters of our book and this is what I found.
Chapter 1: Is really talking about the importance of a strong fundamental knowledge of vocabulary. By age 3 there is already a vocabulary gap between SES (socioeconomics) groups.
Chapter 2: Was all about HOW we pick the words that we are teaching our students. There are pros and cons to each strategy that was talked about.
+So my questions to you are:
1. If by age 3 there is already a gap in knowledge between SES groups, then how as middle and High school teachers to we close that large gap?
2. From chapter 2 which strategy (for complying vocabulary lists) do you prefer and why?
Thank you guys so much, I am looking forward to reading your responses.

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