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How are You Choosing Words to Teach?

10/4/2015

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This year my blogs have been focused on vocabulary instruction. In this blog I want to mention two great resources.  The first one is TextProject.  There are so many resources on this website, but the one I use most often is the “WordZones for 4,000 Simple Word Families.” This is a list compiled by Elfrieda (Freddy) Hiebert for TextProject.  She says, “These 4,000 Simple word families account for 90% of the words in text, including the  texts of high school and college.”  For a more in depth explanation watch her video: 77sec on Core Vocabulary.  This is amazing!  If these words make up 90% of text, before I teach a vocabulary word I’m making sure it’s on the list!  
 
Another great resource is http://www.wordandphrase.info.  You can enter your text, and it will highlight words and tell you the frequency with which they occur in different types of text.  I do use this, but I cross reference it with the TextProject list.  With all of these great resources choosing vocabulary is not as daunting as it used to be!  (Daunting is not on the list; I just checked.)
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