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Vocabulary in a SNAP
This innovative resource provides more than 100 research-based mini-lessons that help teachers efficiently shape instruction, each taking less than 20 minutes.
Benefits
- Explore more than 100 short, memorable mini-lessons for vocabulary instruction that can be adapted to fit diverse curricula.
- Obtain suggestions for scaffolding and accelerating each mini-lesson to meet students’ individual needs.
- Target the most crucial root words, prefixes, and suffixes in the English language to best employ instructional time.
- Find helpful resources for vocabulary instruction, such as websites and applications.
- Peruse appendices that alphabetically list all the words featured in the mini-lessons and detail the research-based instructional strategies used.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Minilesson Management
Chapter 2: Supportive Strategies and Technology Tools
Chapter 3: Robust Roots A–K
Chapter 4: Robust Roots L–Z
Chapter 5: Powerful Prefixes
Chapter 6: Super Suffixes
Chapter 7: Testing Terms
Chapter 8: Varied Voice
Appendix: Index of All Vocabulary Words Appearing in the Book
REPRODUCIBLES
- Figure 2.2: Blank Frayer Model
- Figure 2.3: Modified Frayer Model
- Figure 2.4: Blank Venn Diagram
- Figure 2.5: Blank High School Vocabulary Log
- Figure 2.6: Blank Word Wheel
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Websites
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
- AISLyle, “How to Use Padlet in the Classroom”
- Cal High News, “CLR: Whip Around”
- Center for Teacher Quality, “Stealing Business Ideas for My Classroom”
- Cool Cat Teacher, “How to Use Padlet: A Fantastic Tool for Teaching”
- ESU6 Craft Knowledge Video Series, “Choral Response.mov”
- Kahoot!
- Membean
- Padlet
- Plickers
- Quizlet
- Reading Quest, “Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Venn Diagrams”
- Tech in 2, “How to Use Kahoot! in the Classroom”
- ThingLink
- Thinking Maps
- TodaysMeet
- Wordle
Chapter 3
- English for Students, “Demo & Dem”
- Sasha Gordon, “‘Aud’ Words”
- Membean, “Root Word of the Day: Clud”
- Padlet
- Plickers
- Quizlet
- SlideShare, “Root Word: AUTO”
- TodaysMeet
- Thesaurus.com
- WordHippo, “Words Starting With AUTO”
- WordsinaSentence.com, “Recede in a Sentence”:
- WordsinaSentence.com, “Secede in a Sentence”
Chapter 4
- Bing Images
- Google Images
- C. A. Kenning, “Latin Root Word Luc Means Light, Bright”
- Membean, “Root Word of the Day: Port”
- Membean, “Root Word of the Day: Scrib”
- Padlet
- Quizlet, “Photo- Words”
- Quizlet, “Vid, Vis, View—Root Word”
- Vocabulary.com, “Elements of the Universe: Sol”
- Wiktionary, “Category: English Words Prefixed With Tele-”
- WordHippo, “Words Starting With MANU”
Chapter 5
- Bing Images
- EC English Language Centres, “Words Starting With ‘Un’”
- Grammarist, “Negative Prefixes”
- Padlet
- Plickers
- Marie Rippel, “How We Teach Prefixes”
- Snappy Words
- TodaysMeet
- WordHippo, “What Is Another Word for Revise?”
- WordHippo, “Words Starting With SUB”
Chapter 6
- David Dailey, “Most Things That End in -ly Are Adverbish. These Aren’t”
- EnglishClub, “Animal Vocabulary”
- Fact Monster, “Animal Group Terminology”
- Aaron V. Humphrey, “How to Pluralize Latin & Greek Nouns”
- Belinda Kinney, “Word Endings Foldable {Freebie}”
- Learner’s Dictionary Ask the Editor, “Doubling the Final Consonant Before Adding -ed or -ing”
- Oxford Dictionaries, “Plurals of English Nouns Taken From Latin or Greek”
- Padlet
- Speakspeak, “Spelling: When to Double a Consonant Before Adding -ed or -ing to a Verb”
- Brian Wasko, “Non-Adverbs That End in -LY”
- WordHippo
Chapter 7
- Bing Images
- Josh Brewer, “Tips on Giving Oral Presentations”
- Central Rappahannock Regional Library, “Speak Up: Giving a Good Oral Report”
- CNN
- Dictionary.com
- Douglas County School District, “Cross-section—Nonfiction”
- Google Images
- Michelle J. Kelley and Nicki Clausen-Grace, “Guiding Students Through Expository Text With Text Feature Walks”
- Learn Zillion, “Understand Volume and How Volume Is Measured”
- Math Is Fun, “Accuracy and Precision”
- Math Is Fun, “Definition of Addition”
- Merriam-Webster
- News for Your Classroom
- New York Times
- Padlet
- SlideShare, “The Parts of a Book”
- TIME for Kids
- Vocabulary.com, “Convert”
- Washington Post
- Wordle
Chapter 8
Books
- Marzano, R. J., & Simms, J. (2013). Vocabulary for the Common Core. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research.
- Peery, A. (in press). Vocabulary in a SNAP: 100+ Lessons for Secondary Instruction. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
