Week 7 Assignment 3

The three levels of words include familiar words, words that appear often, and highly technical words. Familiar words are words like bad, look, and run that don't need to be taught. Words that appear often enough include words that are seen daily in print or on tv and could include words like freeway, hurricane, or democracy. These words are mostly words that need to be taught. The highly technical words like legislatures and unicameral are words that are often taught during science or social studies lessons. It is easy to develop 5-7 words in two 10 minute lessons a week. Students absorb more from words that are taken from materials that they are dealing with. By students finding words in their reading material, they improve the comprehension of the overall material at hand.
It is found to be ineffective to teach letter by letter and to increase the volume of reading for more exposures. Students will learn to use other words to learn new words. By “chunking” a word into individual “chunks” students can pronounce what they know to frighten out whole word. Students can be told to tear off the front, tear off the back, and pronounce the middle. There are times students might have to tear a word in half so help understand the meaning.
It is important in the classroom to keep a visual track of what words the students are learning. A highly effective practice is using a word chart. Students are instructed to figure out the meanings of new words by using context clues from their readings. Effective teaching isn't highly replicable and the one size fits all instruction is literally anti-scientific. We as teachers need to adopt needs for the students sitting right in front of us.