Vocabulary

There are more than 600,000 words in the Oxford-English dictionary! 

So how do you decide which vocabulary words you should explicitly teach in a given unit?

Rather than focusing on all the new and potentially important words your students will encounter as a result of reading and listening during your unit, consider the words that will authentically appear in your unit that you want students to master by the end.

Select words that are:

• relevant to the content and concepts students need to master

• used often within a unit and/or over multiple units

• linked to the Standard(s) of the unit

• abstract or not easily visualized 

• difficult to understand without background knowledge or contextual support

• naturally related or have logical relationships to other words in the content

adapted from https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/sec-rdng/cresource/q2/p03/ 

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