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Building Vocabulary
Karen Jogan, Ph.D.
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PERU TESOL 2011
Stress
• Stress timed rhythm
• Syllable timed rhythm
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English is Stress-Timed!
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Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
Her lamb was sure to go!
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Salad Bowl
• Clap the syllables in the word
• Organize vocabulary by number of
syllables
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Cucumber
Blue Cheese Dressing
Arugula
Cherry tomato
Onion
Avocado
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Time to make a salad!
• Clap ingredients in a salad
• Can your partner identify the
ingredients?
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Your turn!
• Make a list of 5 things that you are
wearing today.
• Clap for the syllables for your
partner.
• If your partner cannot guess, point
to the item!
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Minimal pairs
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#1 or #2?
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Bit
Bat
But
beet
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Bite
Bait
Bought
bet
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#1 or #2?
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Walk
Mill
Park
Go
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Walked
Milk
Parked
goes
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Your turn!
• Make a list of five pairs of words
that your students have problems
with.
• Now, show your partner your list.
• Let your partner tell you if the word
you are saying is #1 or #2
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Pronunciation Bingo
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Bit
bid
But
Bat
Bought
beet
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Bait
Bite
Boat
Bet
bed
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Your turn!
• What words do your students have
difficulty “hearing”?
• What strategies can you use to help
with listening and pronunciation?
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Instant Words
• Dr. Eduard Fry (1993) ranked English
words in frequency order.
• For fluent reading, students should
be able to recognize the most
common words “instantly.”
• The first 25 instant words make up
33% of all reading material in English.
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Fry word lists and
activities
• http://www.uen.org/k2educator/word_lists.shtml
• http://www.candohelperpage.com/sig
htvocab_1.html
Your turn!
• WHY are these called “instant
words”?
• What strategies will you use to help
your students learn Fry’s “instant
words”?
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Irregular words
• Difficulty Factors
– How the word “looks” and how it is actually
pronounced
– Which words requires more practice?
• car
• Although
• Debt
• want
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• What words are difficult for your
students?
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Strategies
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Select words that are useful
Select upcoming words
Limit words introduced
Introduce similar words together
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Similar words
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Walk, talk, chalk
Give, live
Would, could, should
Brother, other, mother
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You can’t pre-teach every
hard word
• Choose words carefully
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Important to understand the text
Can’t be predicted in the text
Likely to be seen again
Useful
Idiomatic - frequent
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Spell Words
• Students
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See and hear word
Say the word
Clap syllables
Spell it letter by letter
Repeat the word
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Let’s practice
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Conestoga
Portfolio
Through
Doubtful
Celebration
Comfortable
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• By spelling, students have to attend
to all of the letters in the word!
• Students reaffirm learning through
reading the word
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Word Banks and Walls
• Personal collections of words
• Teachers can create Word Walls
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Word Study Notebooks
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Collections of words
Sort words
Draw and label words
Write sentences using words studied
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Sections of Notebook
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Regular words
Irregular words
Homophones
Personal words
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Graphic Organizers
house
barn
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Use words to write..
• Imagine that you are a weather
forcaster.
• Use these words in your report;
• Today, rain, cloudy, north,
seacoast, tomorrow, temperature
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Word Games
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Make a crossword puzzle
Act out words (pantomime)
Map words
Categorize, Classify, and Organize
words into categories
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Criss Cross Puzzle
• http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducati
on.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp
Synonym
Word
Use
Antonym
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Your turn!
• Create a word map
Synonym
Word
Use
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Antonym
Your turn!
• Create a vocabulary game…
• What words will you use?
• What game will you create?
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PAVE
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Prediction
Association
Verification
Evaluation
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Thank you!
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