566+-+Agenda+-+6.12.12

9:00 - 9:05 - Welcome and Good News
 * Thank you for your thoughtful work!
 * http://gonzagateach.wikispaces.com/Text+Set - For a great example of a text set, see Sarah and Stefoni's here!

9:05 - 9:25 - Review Curriculum Project Guidelines
 * Curriculum Goals/Standards, etc.
 * Requirements
 * Posting
 * Collaboration/feedback
 * Target Student

9:25 - 10:00 - How to Teach a Word
 * [|How to teach a word - prezi]
 * Practice

10:00 - 10:05 - Break

10:05 - 10:20- Chapter 4 Discussion - Christey

10:20 - 10:35 - Ernst-Slavit Discussion - Carolyn

10:35 - 11:00 - Working with Texts


 * To Do:**
 * Read Chapter 4, Ernst-Slavit text - Discussion Leader
 * Text Set - Due on Thursday
 * Be working on - Unit Standards/Curricular Goals/Student Profiles

Notes: When teaching a word what are some important things to think about: 1)Less is more, 4-6 words at a time. If you have a list of 35 words that is to many. Focus on high-mileage words: Using frog and toad as an example in Class: Anny read us the first chapter of the story, we had to find words that stand out as teaching words: When talking about how to teach a word, pick words that you are really going to hold your students accountable for knowing, ie words that they might be quizzed on. Some words you can use gestures to communicate doing the story like the word Blink, you can Blink to show the meaning. The word Porch would be more advanced. Good words could be bed, sun, house, calender, skip(verbs are important). Verbs: pushed, pulled, walked, lying. Academic language words from Frog and Toad: dark, bright, spring, winter, pushed, pulled. Using the example of Skip: it doesn't meet the three critria, but its still important to the child because of playground social time. Randem list of words of least effective for the ELL student. 2)Connect, Connect, Connect So important to connect words, because it creates a deeper meaning, the more likely it will skip, also they have a better understanding of the meaning of the word. Example word: Calender, days of the week, months, birthday, holidays, seasons (winter, summer), give them language to use like "where is the calander." 3)Multiple Representations: Tell me the pros and cons of using dictionary def. : dictionary defs are very complicated (they might not know all the words in the def.). Pros: teaching them to use their resources. More for the advanced learner. What is meant my multiple: using language to learn language Visible in multiple places: could be a word wall, or pictures with labels all over the place 4)Review and Recycle: It takes many times to learn a word, you have to continually repeat and reuse the word for them to learn it.
 * Compound words
 * Cultural context
 * Teach by contrast
 * Common
 * Important
 * Builds academic language
 * to other words
 * to learners, prior knowledge, and L1
 * to synonyms & antonyms & collocations
 * Visuals(images, symbols, graphic organizers)
 * L1 equivalents
 * Multiple students-friendly definitions
 * Visible in multiple places
 * Usually, it takes multiple encounters to learn a new word
 * If you don't use it, you lose it

Useful Strategies:
 * Highlight the word in context
 * Any guess? (How could we find out?)
 * Establish Meaning: student-friendly definitions, examples, visual/gestures, L1 eqivalent
 * Practice - comprehension
 * TPR (having actions that go with words, they can show you with out using oral lang.)
 * Listen tasks
 * Questioning
 * Sorting tasks
 * Drawing
 * Personal dictionaries
 * Practice-production: Writing tasks, speaking tasks