Websites to Build Vocabulary

Using Content Clues to Build Vocabulary: http://www.loveyourpencil.com/index.php/learning-activities/128-using-context-clues-to-build-vocabulary
 (Links to an external site.)

High Frequency Words in Languages: http://www.reall-languages.com/Reall_Languages/High_Frequency_Words_and_Sight_Words.html (Links to an external site.)

Word Families: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/wordfamilies/ (Links to an external site.)

Academic words – 570 Core Words: http://www.uefap.com/vocab/select/awl.htm (Links to an external site.)

Root Words: http://www.learnthat.org/pages/view/roots.html (Links to an external site.)

Homophones: http://www.homophone.com/ (Links to an external site.)    

Idioms/Figurative Language: https://www.ocps.net/cs/services/cs/currareas/read/IR/bestpractices/GL/Idioms.pdf

 (Links to an external site.)

Vocab. Resource for Adult ESL

The Language Instinct

Examples of Strategies 

Presented in the PowerPoint

Fry Word Lists

First 100 words: http://people.sju.edu/~cspinell/pages/source/fry_word_list.pdf (Links to an external site.)

First 300:   http://www.stab.org/uploaded/page_documents/summer_reading/2013/Fry_List.pdf (Links to an external site.)

First 1000: http://www.k12reader.com/fry-word-list-1000-high-frequency-words/ (Links to an external site.)

English Vocabulary for Academic Success

https://www.createspace.com/3853709

Reading Strategy & Assessment:

ELEMENTS OF FLUENCY

• Automaticity
• Accurate, fast word recognition
• A brief test for automaticity:
• Select a reading passage of 50 -250 words.
• Ask the student to read it outloud.
• Begin timing (watch/stopwatch) when the student reads the first word and stop timimg when the student reads the last word.
• If the reading has taken several minutes, convert the minutes into number of seconds.  Then add the number of additional seconds used.
• Multiply the total number of words in the passage by 60, then divide this number by the student's reading time in seconds.

Example

The student read a 250-word passage in 3 minutes and 23 seconds.
3 minutes x 60 seconds each = 180 seconds
180 + the remaining 23 seconds = 203 seconds
(250 number of words x 60) ÷ 203 seconds = @ 74 words per minute 

Calculating Fluency

FOX & FROG

It is hot. Frog sits on a pad.

Frog sits still in the hot sun. He does not hop.

He does not jump. Frog is just too hot.

Fox is very sad. He wants to jump with Frog.

He wants to hop with Frog. But Frog just sits still.

Fox sits on a log. Fox comes up with a good plan.

Fox gets a very big fan for Frog.

Now Frog hops and jumps again.

Frog and Fox hop and jump together.

    Fox is very glad. 

Word Count: 86

Errors: IIIIIIIIIIIIIII/ 15

86-15= 71/86=.82

82% Accuracy in fluency.

1. Word Count
2. Tally errors
3. Subtract errors to get total of correctly read words
4. Divide correct total by word count
5. Decimal amount equals percentage of fluency

High Interest-Low Readability Strategies for ELL

1.http://www.nwt.literacy.ca/resources/adultlit/high_interest_low_vocabulary.pdf (Links to an external site.)  
2.http://www.nbss.ie/sites/default/files/publications/READ_-_hilow_books.pdf
 (Links to an external site.) 

Songs/Chants, Phoneme Awareness Strategies: