This document outlines effective strategies for teaching vocabulary to students. It recommends having students link new terms to their own life experiences to help retain meanings. It also suggests having students paraphrase terms in their own words for better understanding. Differentiation techniques are important, such as maintaining high expectations while allowing varying levels of support through examples, practice time, and repetition. Making connections to students' real-life situations helps ESOL and ESE learners. Interview strategies like knowledge rating guides, vocabulary webs, and word substitution activities provide ways to assess and expand students' vocabularies.

1. Effective Strategies for Vocabulary Instruction By Lindsay Spann, Jacyln Clark, Vivianne Creary, and Lascelia Dacres

3. The set of words a person is familiar with in a language.

4. Usually grows and evolves with age

6. Have students paraphrase terms in their own words so they have a better understanding.

8. Use activities and products based on students’ readiness and interests.

10. Allow multiple opportunities for students to encounter the term and use while communicating

11. Vary the intensity of the word -Ex: multiple meanings, different pronunciations, etc.

13. More time spent on teaching it in detail

14. Fewer terms

15. Group work, guided practice, and modeling

17. VIS (Vocabulary Improvement Strategy)

18. Vocabulary Word Webs

20. Knowledge Rating Continued 3. Have students check the columns that apply after modeling one word then working on one together. 4. Discuss each word after students are done filling out the chart. Find out which words were least recognized or defined. 5. Make predictions about further meanings of words and how they will be used in the text.

21. VIS (Vocabulary Improvement Strategy) Chart

22. Vocabulary Word Web

23. Vocabulary Word SubstitutionExample: Instead of saying… When my dog died, I became sad. Say… When my dog died, I became heartbroken.

25. Secondary Content Teacher Reading Strategies www.ops.org/reading/secondarystrat1.htm

26. Lowering the language barriers in middle and secondary school http://www.resourceroom.net/comprehension/lowerbarriers.asp.