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Identifying and Identifying and Understanding WordsUnderstanding Words

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Annalisa C. DimeoAnnalisa C. Dimeo

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Table of Table of Contents:Contents:

Identifying and Understanding WordsIdentifying and Understanding Words There’s a Nightmare in My ClosetThere’s a Nightmare in My Closet, By Mercer Mayer, By Mercer Mayer Differences between identifying and understandingDifferences between identifying and understanding Five ways to call children’s attention to sight wordsFive ways to call children’s attention to sight words DecodingDecoding Sight words activitySight words activity Fluent readerFluent reader What is a fluent reader?What is a fluent reader? Develop fluencyDevelop fluency Why is fluent reading important?Why is fluent reading important?

Table of Table of Contents:Contents:

Fluent reading allows children to readFluent reading allows children to read As students become fluent readersAs students become fluent readers Choral Reading ActivityChoral Reading Activity How students learn the meaning of wordsHow students learn the meaning of words Teaching students how to unlock word meaningsTeaching students how to unlock word meanings Four strategies to learn the meanings of wordsFour strategies to learn the meanings of words Guidelines for vocabulary instructionGuidelines for vocabulary instruction How effective teachers teach students to identify How effective teachers teach students to identify

words and learning word meanings.words and learning word meanings. Word Map ActivityWord Map Activity Applause! Applause!Applause! Applause!

IDENTIFYING AND IDENTIFYING AND UNDERSTANDING WORDSUNDERSTANDING WORDS

Difference between Difference between identifying and identifying and understanding wordsunderstanding words

How students learn to How students learn to decode wordsdecode words

How students become How students become fluent readersfluent readers

Why fluent reading is Why fluent reading is importantimportant

How students learn the How students learn the meanings of wordsmeanings of words

THERE’S A NIGHTMARE IN THERE’S A NIGHTMARE IN MY CLOSETMY CLOSET

WRITTEN AND WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY ILLUSTRATED BY

MERCER MAYERMERCER MAYER

Difference between Difference between identifying and identifying and understandingunderstanding

Sight WordsSight Words New WordsNew Words New ConceptNew Concept New MeaningsNew Meanings High Frequency High Frequency

WordsWords

Five ways to call children’s Five ways to call children’s attention to sight wordsattention to sight words

Word chartWord chart Reading and Reading and

rereading booksrereading books Mini LessonMini Lesson DictionariesDictionaries Patterned Patterned

WritingWriting

DecodingDecoding

PhonicsPhonicsAnalogiesAnalogiesContext CluesContext CluesSyllabic Syllabic

AnalysisAnalysisMorphemic Morphemic

KnowledgeKnowledge

SIGHT WORDS ACTIVITY:SIGHT WORDS ACTIVITY:

FLUENT READERFLUENT READER

What is a fluent reader?What is a fluent reader?Automatic Automatic

IdentificationIdentificationUses Uses

identification identification strategiesstrategies

We are fluent We are fluent readersreaders

Developing FluencyDeveloping Fluency

Easy-to-read Easy-to-read booksbooks

Repeated Repeated readingsreadings

Choral readingsChoral readings Readers theaterReaders theater Listening centerListening center Reading workshopReading workshop

WHY IS FLUENT READING WHY IS FLUENT READING IMPORTANT?IMPORTANT?

Fluent Reading Allows Fluent Reading Allows Children To Read:Children To Read:

AutomaticallAutomaticallyy

RapidlyRapidly

AccuratelyAccurately

As students As students become fluent become fluent readers, they use readers, they use less energy for less energy for word word identification and identification and focus more focus more energy on energy on comprehending comprehending what they read.what they read.

CHORAL READING CHORAL READING ACTIVITY:ACTIVITY:

THIS IS THIS IS THE THE HOUSE HOUSE THAT JACK THAT JACK BUILTBUILT

How Students Learn the How Students Learn the Meanings of WordsMeanings of Words

Word MeaningsWord Meanings Understanding Multiple Meanings of Understanding Multiple Meanings of

WordsWords Recognizing Figurative MeaningsRecognizing Figurative Meanings Using “Nym” WordsUsing “Nym” Words Tapping into Prior KnowledgeTapping into Prior Knowledge Teaching Students how to unlock Teaching Students how to unlock

word meaningsword meanings

Teaching Students How to Teaching Students How to Unlock Word MeaningsUnlock Word Meanings

Instructions should help students relate Instructions should help students relate new words to their background knowledge.new words to their background knowledge.

Instructions should help students develop Instructions should help students develop ownership-level word knowledge.ownership-level word knowledge.

Instructions should provide for students’ Instructions should provide for students’ active involvement in learning new words.active involvement in learning new words.

Instructions should develop students’ Instructions should develop students’ strategies for learning new words strategies for learning new words independently.independently.

Four Strategies to learn Four Strategies to learn the meanings of wordsthe meanings of words

PhonicsPhonics

Morphological AnalysisMorphological Analysis

Context CluesContext Clues

Reference BooksReference Books

Guidelines For Vocabulary Guidelines For Vocabulary InstructionInstruction

Words to StudyWords to Study Prior KnowledgePrior Knowledge Word WallsWord Walls Choosing Words to TeachChoosing Words to Teach The Four Language ArtsThe Four Language Arts Vocabulary ActivitiesVocabulary Activities Mini LessonsMini Lessons Wide ReadingWide Reading Dictionaries and Dictionaries and

Reference BooksReference Books

HOW EFFECTIVE TEACHERS HOW EFFECTIVE TEACHERS TEACH STUDENTS TO IDENTIFY TEACH STUDENTS TO IDENTIFY WORDS AND LEARNING WORD WORDS AND LEARNING WORD MEANINGSMEANINGS

WORD MAP ACTIVITY:WORD MAP ACTIVITY:

APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE!APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE!

Works CitedWorks Cited Tompkins, Gail E. Tompkins, Gail E. Literacy for the 21stLiteracy for the 21st

Century: A Balanced ApproachCentury: A Balanced Approach. . Prentice-Hall: 1997. PP. 158-198.Prentice-Hall: 1997. PP. 158-198.

Mayer, Mercer. Mayer, Mercer. There’s a Nightmare in My There’s a Nightmare in My ClosetCloset. Harper/Collins: 1968.. Harper/Collins: 1968.

Special Thanks goes to:Special Thanks goes to: Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft Microsoft

Corporation: 1987-1996. Corporation: 1987-1996. The anonymous author of The anonymous author of This is the House This is the House

that Jack Built.that Jack Built. The InternetThe Internet