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Ideas for developing students’ capacity to understand and use discipline-specific terminology and the language used in instruction.

Ideas for developing students’ capacity to understand and use discipline-specific terminology and the language used in instruction.

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Selecting Academic Vocabulary

The Common Core identifies six instructional shifts needed to effectively implement the standards in ELA/Literacy. Shift 6 suggests an instructional change in the teaching of Academic Vocabulary. While there are many specific vocabulary standards in the K-12 Language strand, it's helpful and important to look at Academic Vocabulary from the big picture view known as Shift 6.

Yu Ren Dong reveals strategies for teaching academic vocabulary to ELLs in the Common Core era Research has shown that a lack of academic vocabulary prevents English Language Learners (ELLs) from achieving academic success. On average, native English speaking students have learned about 12,000 words by high school (Nagy & Anderson, 1984; Nation, 2006), while secondary ELLs often have to begin their academic vocabulary from scratch. In a limited time, they need to acquire a large number of…

Joliprint | Print friendly & PDF your blogs and websites via kwout Joliprint is a great website especially if you find web-based content (like a non-fiction) article that you want to print for students without ads, banners, headers, etc. Copy and paste the web-based article into the URL box at http://www.joliprint/ and select Joliprint It! and wa-la, a pdf is clean, neat pdf is created. Awesome! kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout And Kwout.com takes a screenshot of ANYTHING on the…

FREE APP 'Words to Learn By' by @David Nilsson McGraw-Hill School Education Gives you a quick and easy way to study high-frequency academic vocabulary. -Learn and study words in different contexts -Each word includes definition, audio pronunciation, and synonym -Quizzes include definition, fill-in-the-blanks, and the synonym shuffle game