Creating a Culture of Learning and Love for Literacy
Creating a Culture of Learning and Love for Literacy

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TEACHER LESSON SITES


WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH VOCABULARY?
Building Academic Vocabulary Marzano & Pickering
Trina Bright  
A. Provide a description, explanation, example, or context of the new term (Do NOT give a definition) Provide background knowledge; solicit personal thoughts, offer real experiences, video or images, and use outside academia.        
KWL – Read Aloud – Teach Content Clues – Anticipation Guides
 
B. Ask students to restate, explain, or give an example in their own words Ask students to paraphrase word meaning, monitor for self-correction. Provide additional support, and provide time for writing in notebooks
 Seed Discussions – Three-Minute Pass
 
C. Model. Allow students to manipulate the word with a picture, symbol, or graphic or nonlinguistic representation
 Picture Notes / Comics – LINCS – Cubing/Thinking Cube
 
D. Engage students’ individual learning styles in activities that help them add to their knowledge of words
            Visual – Auditory - Other

 E. Discuss words in terms of one another - Informal Think-Pair-Share activities
 A-Z Review – Mind Streaming – A-Z Review
 
F. Involve students in games with words – Allow for review time to reexamine understanding
 Talk a Mile a Minute – Charades – Pictionary – Jeopardy

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Embedded General Teacher Links

Library Media CCSS Crosswalk

Arkansas Department of Education

The Learning Institute

Benchmark Education Company

SMART Technologies

Read-Write-Think

Literacy Newsletter Choice Literacy

For Teachers Test Prep
StudyZone.Org

Blooms for Technology Blooms Apps

SMART Notebook and Response files SMART Exchange

SMART Notebook files
Simple Smart Skills

Marzano's High Yield Strategies

Math

Math Video Lessons
Khan Academy

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

K-5 Math Teaching Resources

Math Lessons and Activities
Illuminations

Vocabulary for Students

Word Cloud
ABCya!

Word clouds
Wordle

Shaped Word clouds
Tagxedo

Horizontal Word Clouds
WordItOut

Graphical dictionary
Visuwords

Publish and Present for Students

Write and illustrate
Myths & Legends Story Creator 2

Virtual memory or storytelling box
Museum Box

Prezi Create, share, and publish online presentations.

Animated memes
Xtranormal

Build a website
Weebly for Education

Posters mix, media, emotions, and ideas Glogster


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