Re: [MOSAIC] TRENDS and ISSUES In Literacy Pedagogy

drmarinaccio Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:01:54 -0700

This is wonderful..thank so much!!!

Marzano's work is about getting kids to really understand what a wordmeans

Not just the definition of the word.   In fact, he states that often the

definition of a word is not helpful to a student who doesn't understandthe

word.  You use academic vocabulary as the words sometimes go across the
curriculum.
Marzano has a six step method that leads towards fully understanding the

word. He maps it out (and shows you in the DVD how to do this) and hasa

worksheet the students fill out.
Example: compare/contrast

I had a second grade class work on the word compare. Some things theteacherdoes is use the word in a sentence, read a book where the word is usedor

has good examples of comparing...  It goes way beyond "the word compare
means the same".  The students come to a deep understanding of the word.
They draw a visual representation and other words that are like compare,

plus some other things... Anyway, through our study of the wordcompare, a

little boy makes this statement.  "Well, I know why they put it with

contrast -in order to tell if something is the same, you have to knowwhenthey are different. So when you are comparing, you are alsocontrasting."You choose words that you use a lot in the classroom where kids areexpected

to understand what to do.
Some other words we worked on:
Explain
Justify
Subtraction
Multiplication


Infer
Predict
Connection
Synthesize
Sentence
Noun
Verb
Contraction
Community
Energy
Phase
Estimate

There are also some vocabulary games in the book that we used in the
classroom.
Jan




On 6/17/09 1:37 PM, "Stephanie Perry" <zeal4learn...@gmail.com> wrote:

I recommend Bring Words to Life by Isabel Beck over Marzano's. Her

book not

only gives the research but it provides things that you can use in

your

classroom immediately.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:09 PM, <drmarinac...@aol.com> wrote:
This is unbelievably helpful!!!!
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to

your

grandmother.
-Albert Einstein






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Robert Marzano is wonderful for academic vocabulary. As a literacy

coach I

did district wide staff development (3, 3 hour sessions) using his

Building

Academic Background Knowledge work. He did some work in conjunction

with

Stanford University and a brain researcher. He has DVDs, one that

explains

the research and a rep from Stanford (can not remember the

name andit is

probably some big shot) and the brain guy both speak on it. It

gives the

WHY we should teach academic vocab. There is also another DVD that

has the

6 step process for teaching vocabulary.
There is a book too -paperback 8 1/2 x 11. I believe the DVDs are

quite

pricey -they come together. They are published by ASDC (Association

for

Supervision and Curriculum Development).
Jan
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to

your

grandmother.
-Albert Einstein


On 6/17/09 4:22 AM, "kjcec...@aol.com" <kjcec...@aol.com> wrote:

 Marzano discusses this in? great detail



Kristine


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Academic vocabulary. Interesting!!!! Is there an author who I can

read up on??

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Unless we reach into our students¹ hearts, we have no entry into their
minds.
-Regie Routman




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