Ch 10: Vocab, Acad. Lang., Bkgrd Knowledge (Role in Read. Dev. & Factors that Affect Dev.) (20%)

Question 0

3 tiers of general academic vocabulary

Answer 0

1) simple words that most children know without instruction, used every day (flower, rain, water)
2) more difficult words that appear in several contexts – across two or more areas of study (peninsula, territory, nautical, climate, tropical)
3) most difficult because they are specific to only one domain or area of study (unicellular, protozoa, amoeba). should be taught as part of that content area instruction, not vocab instruction alone

Question 1

Academic language

Answer 1

language used in textbooks and tests, the language of the classroom

• technical- or specific are words related to a specific discipline
• nontechnical - runs across disciplines and would include words such as theory, hypothesis, analysis, synthesis

Question 2

five types of vocabulary (each person has)

Answer 2

• listening - words you understand when listening to other people speak
• speaking - words you use when you talk (smaller than listening vocab)
• writing - words you use when you write
• sight (reading) - words you can recognize and correctly pronounce
• meaning (reading) - words you understand when you read silently

Question 3

background knowledge

Answer 3

what you know about a specific topic

essential foundation before students begin reading about something new

Question 4

it is important to teach _____ academic language to help support comprehension

Answer 4

nontechnical

words that are essential to success in school are included in this category - think of words such as define, identify, illustrate, speculate, summarize and classify)