http://netvouz.com/jgordon/tag/vocabulary?feed=rss jgordon's bookmarks tagged "vocabulary" on Netvouz http://www.prel.org/products/re_/ES0419.htm A Focus on Vocabulary by Fran Lehr, M.A., Lehr & Associates, Champaign, Illinois Jean Osborn, M.Ed., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Visiting Research Professor, University of California - Berkeley A Focus on Vocabulary is the second in the Research-Based Practices in Early Reading Series published by the Regional Educational Laboratory at Pacific Resources for Education and Learning. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:18:06 GMT http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html This sight provides an interactive dictionary for kids K-6, but the vocabulary is great support for ELLs. Because the site is interactive, the user will gain visual support for not only the math vocabulary but related language. Science and Math > MATH ONLY jgordon Mon, 15 May 2006 19:01:25 GMT http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/strategies.html This site was developed by a project in Tennessee to support Academic Vocabulary Development. It explains Marzano's 6-step process with additional support, activities, and/or games for each step. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:38:00 GMT http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/read180/community/pdfs/Vocabulary/Academic_Word_List_by_Frequency.pdf The Academic Word List includes ten units of sets of words most frequently found in school text books of all types, hence applying to non-fiction. "The Academic Word List, compiled by Coxhead (2000), consists of 570 word families that are not in the most frequent 2,000 words of English but which occur reasonably frequently over a very wide range of academic texts. These 570 words are grouped into ten sublists that reflect word frequency and range. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:51:47 GMT http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1572307536/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-8368736-5989446#reader-link Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown,Linda Rocan This book garners high praise from Timothy Shanahan and Catherine Snow and is recommended by Colorin Colorado. Research-based practical suggestions. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:51:42 GMT http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.b71d101a2f7c208cdeb3ffdb62108a0c/template.book?bookMgmtId=8a5e64d976bb5010VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD This manual by Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering provides explicit guidance for teachers in the implementation of the research presented in Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:34:54 GMT http://shop.ascd.org/productdisplay.cfm?productid=104017 Drawing from 35 years of research, Robert J. Marzano focuses on what works. The vocabulary terms that are critical to students' success are included for all grade levels. Learn why insufficient background knowledge is a chronic cause of low achievement, and learn strategies that help. Books & Videos/DVDs: Professional Development > Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:00:34 GMT http://www.carlscorner.us.com/ This website provides numerous literacy activities for students to complete. It is a tool for teachers to use to find book links, writing activities, assessment ideas, literacy stations, poems, mini books and much much more. All the materials are already pre-made and come with an explanation on how to use them. This site it gear to teacher who teach pre-k – 3rd grade. There are also literacy ESL materials on the site as well as Spanish materials. Rec by Janet Peters. Literacy > EMERGENT LITERACY jgordon Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:35:51 GMT http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/13281 Reading and Understanding Written Math Problems By: Brenda Krick-Morales (2006) This resource provides valuable suggestions and links for teaching math to ELLs, plus resources for all. Science and Math > MATH ONLY > Strategies for Math jgordon Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:25:22 GMT http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/errors.html This site by Paul Brians contains an alphabetized list of common errors in the use of English. Most are related to misuse of vocabulary where two terms are often confused. Literacy > Vocabulary jgordon Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:11:59 GMT