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Vocabulary in a SNAP (Secondary)
Learn how to increase vocabulary skills using quick, flexible vocabulary exercises. Discover vocabulary learning strategies for high school and middle school vocabulary words.
Benefits
- Explore more than 100 short, memorable minilessons for teaching vocabulary that can be adapted to fit diverse curricula.
- Obtain suggestions for scaffolding and accelerating each short vocabulary activity to meet students' individual needs.
- Target vocabulary words with the most crucial root words, prefixes, and suffixes in the English language to best employ instructional time.
- Find helpful resources on how to teach vocabulary, such as websites and applications.
- Gain research-based vocabulary learning strategies used in the minilessons.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Minilesson Management
Chapter 2: Supportive Strategies and Technology Tools
Chapter 3: Robust Roots
Chapter 4: Powerful Prefixes
Chapter 5: Super Suffixes
Chapter 6: Testing Terms
Chapter 7: Varied Voice
Appendix: Index of All Vocabulary Words Appearing in the Book
REPRODUCIBLES
- Blank Frayer Model
- Blank Venn Diagram
- Blank Vocabulary Frame
- Blank Vocabulary Log
- Blank Word Wheel
- Brainstorming
- Exit Tickets
- Modified Frayer Model
- Template to Sort Lesson R5 Synonyms
- Writing Definitions
- Writing Sentences
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Websites
Chapter 1
- Cambridge Dictionary
- Dictionary.com
- The Free Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster’s Online
- Thesaurus.com
- WordHippo
Chapter 2
- AISLyle, “How to Use Padlet in the Classroom”
- Cal High News, “CLR: Whip Around”
- David Orphal, “Stealing Business Ideas for My Classroom”
- ESU6PD, “Choral Response.mov”
- Kahoot!
- Melissa Minkin, “Classroom Chat Room—Great First Technology Project”
- Membean
- Padlet
- Plickers
- Quizlet
- ReadingQuest, “Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Venn Diagrams”
- Richard Byrne, “Three Good Ways to Use TodaysMeet in Your Classroom”
- Tech in 2, “How to Use Kahoot! in the Classroom”
- Thinking Maps
- TodaysMeet
- Vicki Davis, “How to Use Padlet: A Fantastic Tool for Teaching”
- Words in a Sentence
Chapter 3
- English-Word Information, “pedo-, paedo-, ped-, paed-, paido-, paid-”
- Grammarly, “8 Embarrassing (Yet Common) Malapropisms”
- Literary Devices, “Paradox: Definition of Paradox”
- Membean, “Word Root of the Day: cogn”
- Membean, “Word Root of the Day: cred”
- Membean, “Word Root of the Day: dict”
- Membean, “Word Root of the Day: path”
- Membean, “Word Root of the Day: terr”
- Membean, “Word Root of the Day: vis”
- Merriam-Webster’s Online Thesaurus, “Audacity”
- Oxford Dictionaries, “vis-à-vis”
- Padlet
- Quizlet, “Miss; Mit Root Words”
- studntz, “Root Word: AUTO”
- Thesaurus.com, “Telepathy”
- TodaysMeet
- Wikipedia, “List of Recluses”
- Words in a Sentence
- Words in a Sentence, “Endemic in a Sentence”
- Words in a Sentence, “Recede in a Sentence”
- Words in a Sentence, “Secede in a Sentence”
- YourDictionary, “Examples of Paradox”
Chapter 4
- Grammarist, “Negative Prefixes”
- Marie Rippel, “How We Teach Prefixes”
- Membean, “Word Root of the Day: re”
- Padlet
- Thesaurus.com
- TodaysMeet
- Vocabulary.com Dictionary, “Recapitulate”
- WordHippo
Chapter 5
- Aaron V. Humphrey, “How to Pluralize Latin and Greek Nouns”
- David Daily, “Most Things That End in -ly Are Adverbish. These Aren’t”
- Oxford Dictionaries, “Plurals of English Nouns Taken From Latin or Greek”
- Padlet
- Western Michigan University, “Avoid Gender Bias in Writing”
- The Write at Home Blog, “Non-Adverbs That End in -ly”
Chapter 6
- Central Rappahannock Regional Library, “Speak Up: Giving a Good Oral Report”
- Douglas County School District, “Cross-Section—Nonfiction”
- Josh Brewer, Tips on Giving Oral Presentations
- Literary Devices, “Motif”
- Math Is Fun
- Padlet
- Purdue Online Writing Lab, “Organizing Your Argument”
- Vocabulary.com Dictionary, “Convert”
- WordHippo
- Words in a Sentence, “Colleague in a Sentence”
- Words in a Sentence, “Collegial in a Sentence”
- YourDictionary, “Allegory Examples”
Chapter 7
Books
- Marzano, R. J., & Simms, J. A. (2013). Vocabulary for the Common Core. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research.
- Peery, A. B. (2017). Vocabulary in a SNAP: 100+ Lessons for Elementary Instruction. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Tyson, K. A., & Peery, A. B. (2017). Blended Vocabulary for K–12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital Tools and Direct Instruction. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
