Standard 4: Vocabulary

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

WRITING: Students will apply knowledge of vocabularies to communicate by using descriptive, academic, and domain-appropriate abstract and concrete words in their writing.

Understanding 

Objectives 

Approaching 

12.4.W.1

Students can consistently use domain-appropriate vocabulary to communicate complex ideas in writing clearly.

12.4.W.1

Students will use domain-appropriate vocabulary to communicate complex ideas in writing clearly.

Developing 

12.4.W.1

Students will begin to use domain-appropriate vocabulary independently to communicate complex ideas in writing clearly.

12.4.W.1

Students will use domain-appropriate vocabulary to communicate complex ideas in writing clearly with guidance and support.

12.4.W.2

Students will select appropriate language to create a specific effect according to purpose in writing with guidance and support.  

12.4.W.2

Students will begin to select appropriate language independently to create a specific effect according to purpose in writing.

12.4.W.2

Students can consistently select appropriate language to create a specific effect according to purpose in writing.

12.4.W.2

Students will select appropriate language to create a specific effect according to purpose in writing.

 Instructional Guidance 

• Provide students with lists of domain-appropriate vocabulary terms to study and apply in their writing.

• Instruct students to create vocabulary notebooks where they define, apply meaning in context, find synonyms/antonyms and create visual representations of vocabulary terms.

• Use graphic organizers and brainstorming techniques to show relationships between and among words.

• Display effective examples and ineffective non-examples of writing that include domain-appropriate vocabulary.

• Provide students with lists of domain-appropriate vocabulary terms to study and apply in their writing.

• Instruct students to create vocabulary notebooks where they define, apply meaning in context, find synonyms/antonyms and create visual representations of vocabulary terms.

• Use graphic organizers and brainstorming techniques to show relationships between and among words.

• Display effective examples and ineffective non-examples of writing that include domain-appropriate vocabulary.

• Instruct students to create lists of domain-appropriate vocabulary terms to study and apply in their writing.

• Instruct students to create vocabulary notebooks where they define, apply meaning in context, find synonyms/antonyms, create visual representations, and show relationships between and among words.

• Ask students to demonstrate effective examples and ineffective non-examples of writing that include domain-appropriate vocabulary.

• Confer with students about their writing tasks and the progress they are making toward developing specific effects in writing through use of domain-appropriate vocabulary.

Deeper

Acquisition 

• Instruct students to create lists of domain-appropriate vocabulary terms to study and apply in their writing.

• Instruct students to create vocabulary notebooks where they define, apply meaning in context, find synonyms/antonyms, create visual representations of vocabulary terms, and show relationships between and among words.

• Ask students to demonstrate effective examples and ineffective non-examples of writing that include domain-appropriate vocabulary.

• Confer with students about their writing tasks and the progress they are making toward developing specific effects in writing through use of domain-appropriate vocabulary.