Standard 4: Vocabulary

Students will expand their working vocabularies to effectively communicate and understand texts.

READING: Students will expand academic, domain-appropriate, grade-level vocabularies through reading, word study, and class discussion.

Understanding 

Objectives 

Approaching 

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Students will increase knowledge of academic, domain-appropriate, grade-level vocabulary to infer the meaning of grade-level text.

Students will increase knowledge of academic, domain-appropriate, grade-level vocabulary to infer the meaning of grade-level text.

Developing 

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Students continue to acquire knowledge of academic, domain-appropriate, approaching grade-level vocabulary to infer the meaning of approaching grade-level text.

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Students continue to acquire knowledge of academic, domain-appropriate, below grade-level vocabulary to infer the meaning of below grade-level text.

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Students dissect words into word parts (i.e., affixes, Greek and Latin roots, stems) but not necessarily define or determine the meaning of increasingly complex words.

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Students use affixes, Greek and Latin roots, stems to define the meaning of increasingly complex words.

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Students use affixes, Greek and Latin roots, stems to define and determine the meaning of  increasingly complex words.

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Students will use word parts (e.g., affixes, Greek and Latin roots, stems) to define and determine the meaning of increasingly complex words.

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Students will begin to use context clues to determine or the meaning of words or distinguish among multiple-meaning words with guidance and support.

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Students will use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of words or distinguish among multiple-meaning words.

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Students will use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of words or distinguish among multiple-meaning words in a variety of complex texts. 

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Students will use context clues to determine or clarify the meaning of words or distinguish among multiple-meaning words.

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Students will recognize relationships among words with multiple meanings.

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Students will analyze relationships among words with multiple meanings, and recognize the connotation and denotation of words with teacher or peer support.

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Students will analyze the relationships among words with multiple meanings and recognize the connotation and denotation of words.

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Students will analyze the relationships among words with multiple meanings and recognize the connotation and denotation of words.

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Students will use a dictionary, glossary, or a thesaurus (print and/or electronic) to determine or clarify the meanings, pronunciation, synonyms, and parts of speech with guidance and support.

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Students will use a dictionary, glossary, or a thesaurus (print and/or electronic) to determine or clarify the meanings, syllabication, pronunciation, synonyms, parts of speech, and etymology of words or phrases with guidance and support.

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Students will use a dictionary, glossary, or a thesaurus (print and/or electronic) to determine or clarify the meanings, syllabication, pronunciation, synonyms, parts of speech, and etymology of words or phrases.

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Students will use a dictionary, glossary, or a thesaurus (print and/or electronic) to determine or clarify the meanings, syllabication, pronunciation, synonyms, parts of speech, and etymology of words or phrases.

 Instructional Guidance 

• Use visual images that associate with words.
• Use activities and games that will allow students to repeat pronunciation and denotation of words.
• Provide multiple resources for students to use to look up words, such as EnglishForEveryone.org.
• Visit Oklahoma State Department of Education Building Academic Vocabulary for suggestions, resources, and information on academic vocabulary.

• Introduce how to use vocabulary words in conversation and writing.
• Introduce how details in the text may reveal the connotation of a word or words. Use this resource from Florida Center for Reading research to support instruction of Words in Context. 
• Introduce Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes. Learn that Word has some great resources to support instruction in these areas of instruction.
• Provide resources for students to use to look up words.
• Show word’s relationship to other words.

• Model making inferences about text based on vocabulary words. Readworks.org provides FREE articles on a variety of topics and interests and at multiple reading abilities and Lexile levels.
• Guide students in analyzing word parts to determine the meaning.
• Monitor correct usage of the print or digital dictionary, glossary or thesaurus.
• Explain meanings of Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes.

Deeper

Acquisition 

• Provide opportunities for students to use word parts to define increasingly complex words.
• Provide opportunities for students to use new words to add to students’ working vocabulary.
• Provide opportunities for students to use context clues to analyze the relationship among words with multiple meanings. This site provides practice in vocabulary usage similar to the SAT.
• Provide multiple opportunities to use new vocabulary words in writing and conversation.