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= PowerPoint Presentations Prepared and Lead by Dea Conrad-Curry of Partner in Education for the Bureau Henry Stark Regional Offices of Education = = = =Twelve Effective Activities for Building Vocabulary Grades 6-12 =

March 19, 2010
=== Think about this..the average kindergarten student arrives at school with an oral vocabulary of 10,000 words, yet needs to master 50,000 to 60,000 word reading vocabulary by high school graduation.(Graves, 2006). How can we get them there? Research clearly shows that dictionary work is the least effective method of building long-term vocabulary. This cross content workshop will allow you to explore new ways to teach vocabulary and experience engaging vocabulary building activities. Materials will be provided for use in customizing two strategies for your classroom use. Bring tour own class word lists and a laptop to turn Friday's instruction into Monday's vocabulary lessons. Resource materials will be provided and loaner laptops will be available. ===

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= = = = = Best Practices in Vocabulary Instruction: Grades 3 -6 Presentation Date: January 29, 2010 =

=== Vocabulary skills are the most significant indicator of academic achievement (Nagy, 1998). Why? Because word knowledge is essential to comprehension and comprehension is essential to success in life and academics. Every encounter we make, written or oral, is and encounter of language….vocabulary. This cross-content workshop will be two-pronged. First the presenter will share instructional strategies guaranteed to increase student word banks in all content areas, second, time and materials will be provided for you to customize two strategies for immediate use in your classroom: one a game of format and the other, a digital teaching tool. Join us for a day that will provide great ideas and the real stuff of teaching. Bring lists of both past and upcoming vocabulary words and a laptop if you have one available. Resource materials will be provided and additional laptops will be available. ===

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=Best Practices in Content Reading: Grades 6 - 12 = =Presentation Date: January 22, 2010 =

===We know how most Middle and High School kids read - when they read: from the first letter of the first word in the first sentence to the last letter of the last word of the last sentence. Book closed. But can they tell you what they read? Can they connect the new information to information they already possess? One reason our students are not good readers is simply because they don't know what good readers do to better understand content materials. Often times, they are not motivated enough to persevere through challenging content. This interactive workshop will model best practices in how to teach students reading skills and offer some cutting edge ideas on how to increase student motivation while raising the bar on expectations and student outcomes. Bring your content textbook and a laptop. The goal is to turn Friday's information into Monday's lesson plan. Laptops will be available to borrow, but some of the ideas we share you may want to download for immediate use! ===

=== Here is a PowerPoint of the additional slides we looked at after lunch--context clues and vocabulary. I also added an organizer indicating which context clue is used to determine word meaning. If you need anything else, just click on the discussion tab above and drop me a note. ===