Interactive Note-Taking

As you read through the required readings for this week, use your metacognitive skills to take notes and capture your thoughts on this
graphic organizer. Your task will be to select the relevant details and add your personal reflections on the reading. Each cell in the
table will expand as you enter your details and thoughts. Your final submission should be several pages in length.
Essential Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary
Topics It says… I say…
Students do not acquire the meanings of words in isolation. All Children learn vocabulary words by means of daily
Guidelines for learning — both personal and academic — occurs within interactions, and engagement with family members. The
Teaching sociocultural environment of the home, community, and child can be exposed to a variety of words in differing
Vocabulary; classroom. Effective teaching of language and literacy provide social scenarios which can directly influence the size of
Assessing practices that stimulate rich uses of language, designing their the child’s overall vocabulary. Therefore, many factors
Vocabulary; RtI instructional programs within a social context that promotes contribute to the development of the child’s vocabulary
for Vocabulary literacy learning. skills.
The vocabulary self-collection strategy is an interactive With the self-collection strategy, students select words
Strategy 16 learning instructional strategy that promotes word they would like to learn. Students might use a variety of
Vocabulary Self- consciousness, as students are actively engaged in identifying sources such as discussion and digital means to
Collection important words from their readings to share with members of understand their meaning and application. Students will
their class. have a personal reference with the words they select.
Word mapping promotes students deeper understanding of The word mapping might help students identify
words through depicting varying relationships between and components and relations of words. They will be able to
Strategy 17 among words. Word maps are visual displays of word meanings learn the words visually and understand the meaning of
Word Mapping organized to depict relationship with other words. each word and how they relate to others.
The Graphic Morphemic Analysis strategy is an approach to Graphic Morphemic Analysis may include elements of
Strategy 18 word learning that will help readers unlock the meaning of new word roots and word base to infer the meaning of the
Graphic and challenging words by analyzing the meaningful parts within words. The teacher can teach students differing word
Morphemic the words. A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning within a parts such as affixes to use the knowledge to devise
Analysis word. When teachers employ morphemic analysis, they help meaning for the word unknown to the student. The
students see more than just the parts of the word. strategy may enhance word recognition and vocabulary.
The interactive Word Wall strategy promotes a vocabulary-rich Students can use a Word Wall to track key vocabulary
classroom environment where walls are alive with words. The words they have learned in a new lesson. The student
Strategy 19 key to implementing the word wall strategy is interactivity. The may have encountered the new vocabulary word in
Interactive Word classroom walls are adorned with new and interesting words textbooks, discussions, or media presentations. The
Wall that the student learns through interacting with the texts, the Word Wall may facilitate students understanding of new
teacher, and one another. concepts as well as critical vocabulary in a lesson.
Vocabulary Journals are valuable in helping students explore Students will be able to support their learning gains with
the meanings of words that they have encountered while the vocabulary journal. As students write the words,
reading. These journals are a specific type of learning log where they will be able to reference the vocabulary as needed
Strategy 20 students record ideas and information from content areas in a for recall or repetition. Students might be able to also
Vocabulary notebook and responses about new words they learned from learn related words or create a list of critical words they
Journals reading literature or textbooks. have found while reading the textbooks.