http://www.netvouz.com/jgordon/folder/6857313012633349915/Literacy+Vocabulary?feed=rss jgordon's bookmarks in folder Vocabulary on Netvouz http://www.prel.org/products/re_/ES0419.htm A Focus on Vocabulary by Fran Lehr, M.A., Lehr & Associates, Champaign, Illinois Jean Osborn, M.Ed., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Visiting Research Professor, University of California - Berkeley A Focus on Vocabulary is the second in the Research-Based Practices in Early Reading Series published by the Regional Educational Laboratory at Pacific Resources for Education and Learning. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:18:06 GMT http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/strategies.html This site was developed by a project in Tennessee to support Academic Vocabulary Development. It explains Marzano's 6-step process with additional support, activities, and/or games for each step. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:38:00 GMT http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/read180/community/pdfs/Vocabulary/Academic_Word_List_by_Frequency.pdf The Academic Word List includes ten units of sets of words most frequently found in school text books of all types, hence applying to non-fiction. "The Academic Word List, compiled by Coxhead (2000), consists of 570 word families that are not in the most frequent 2,000 words of English but which occur reasonably frequently over a very wide range of academic texts. These 570 words are grouped into ten sublists that reflect word frequency and range. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:51:47 GMT http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/errors.html This site by Paul Brians contains an alphabetized list of common errors in the use of English. Most are related to misuse of vocabulary where two terms are often confused. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:11:59 GMT http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy031.shtml Strategy of the Week from Education World. Includes ideas across grade levels as well as samples of student ABC books online. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:31:19 GMT http://www.languageguide.org/english/ This site provides pictures for suvival and content vocabulary accompanied by the pronunciation of each. Students select the picture, hear the word, and see it written. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:08:57 GMT http://www.u-46.org/roadmap/dyncat.cfm?catid=246 In 2005 U-46 made a commitment, based on research, to use the Marzano's six steps to teach academic vocabulary throughout the district as a way to improve student achievement. This site provides vocabulary lists across the grade levels for the content areas and even includes student samples. Rec. by Francine Kavourinos Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:15:53 GMT http://www.learningpt.org/pdfs/literacy/vocabulary.pdf Blachowicz, C.L.Z, Watts-Taffe, S. & Fisher, P. (2005) The goal of this document is to provide the information that teachers and other educators need to implement an integrated and comprehensive approach to vocabulary instruction. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:12:37 GMT http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html 2,460 illustrated dictionary entries! Each word is used in a meaningful example sentence. Most entries have links to a related web site. Just click on an underlined word (or its accompanying picture), and you'll link to a related page. LITTLE EXPLORERS makes surfing the Internet very easy. A picture-dictionary format is used to link to hundreds of carefully-chosen child-friendly sites around the world. Since the pictures are links, even pre-readers can surf with a minimum of help and guidance from their favorite adult. Older kids can use Little Explorers as a school reference. This is the English version. Other languages are available. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:46:21 GMT http://www.cal.org/create/downloads/ResearchOverview-WordGeneration.pdf Adapting Texts to English Language Learners’ Needs builds on the development and evaluation of Word Generation, an interdisciplinary middle school academic language support program. Word Generation uses engaging paragraphs to present crucial, non-disciplinary, all-purpose academic words and defines activities to help students learn them. The adapting-texts component develops alternative forms of the paragraphs to be used in a modified, ELL-focused version of Word Generation. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:47:10 GMT