Where and when did I find this word?
I found this word in the book, Word Wise and Content Rich, by Fisher and Fry. It is in a chapter that focuses on making vocabulary instruction a school wide initiative. The word was found in the following context:
"Wide reading is of educational interest in part because of the connection to incidental vocabulary
learning."
Wide reading is a sort of encompassing term for a variety of reading programs that aim to instill reading habits in students.
What does this word mean?
According to Fisher and Fry, incidental vocabulary learning occurs as an unplanned (although not necessarily unintentional) event.
Do I want to know this word and why?
As a teacher, I do want to know this word. According to the authors of the book, incidental learning is a vital part of the learning design of simulations because marshaling complex tasks can't be effectively taught in a strictly linear fashion.
Do I want others to know this word?
Teachers should absolutely know this word. This concept of incidental learning is closely related to the Matthew Effect. Stanovich (1986) coined this term after reading a passage in the Bible about the rich getting richer (Fisher and Fry). It is important that teacher understand that learners that read more get better at reading because of the incidental learning that occurs, and therefore they read ever more (Fisher and Fry). It's also important for teachers to understand that motivation and interest play leading roles in such concepts as incidental vocabulary learning and the Matthew Effect.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
7:3 Transmediation
Where and when did I find this word?
This word was in a scholarly article, Imagining the Possibilities in Multimodal Curriculum Design by Peggy Albers. This article discusses the possibilities that multimodal lessons bring to the classroom. The word was found in a section on sharing and organizing learning. Transmediation is a strategy pre-service teachers use to organize and share their learning.
What does this word mean?
According to the author of the article, Peggy Albers, transmediation is a literacy strategy in which learners retranslate their understanding of an idea, concept, or text through another medium. The mediums used are literature studies, exit slips, class discussion, written and artistic responses to literature, PowerPoint presentations, journals, Internet researchers, critical analysis, cultural heritage projects, and focused studies.
Do I want to know this word?
Even though this is a strategy used by students to demonstrate learning, transmediation is also an assessment tool that can be used in classrooms in place of a traditional assessment. It's good for differentiation of assessments which are useful in all classrooms.
It is important that I know this word because I am a teacher. It's another useful strategy to put into the teacher toolbox.
Do I want others to know this word?
It is important for all teachers to know this word. The concept of multimodality is so important in education that a strategy such as transmediation should not be overlooked. It offers such a wide choice of opportunity to gauge student learning.
This word was in a scholarly article, Imagining the Possibilities in Multimodal Curriculum Design by Peggy Albers. This article discusses the possibilities that multimodal lessons bring to the classroom. The word was found in a section on sharing and organizing learning. Transmediation is a strategy pre-service teachers use to organize and share their learning.
What does this word mean?
According to the author of the article, Peggy Albers, transmediation is a literacy strategy in which learners retranslate their understanding of an idea, concept, or text through another medium. The mediums used are literature studies, exit slips, class discussion, written and artistic responses to literature, PowerPoint presentations, journals, Internet researchers, critical analysis, cultural heritage projects, and focused studies.
Do I want to know this word?
Even though this is a strategy used by students to demonstrate learning, transmediation is also an assessment tool that can be used in classrooms in place of a traditional assessment. It's good for differentiation of assessments which are useful in all classrooms.
It is important that I know this word because I am a teacher. It's another useful strategy to put into the teacher toolbox.
Do I want others to know this word?
It is important for all teachers to know this word. The concept of multimodality is so important in education that a strategy such as transmediation should not be overlooked. It offers such a wide choice of opportunity to gauge student learning.
7:2 Capital Investment
Where and when did I find this word?
I found this word in a Business Math textbook in a chapter on insurance and investments. This word was in a section of the chapter dealing with the rate of return on real estate. This chapter teaches students about buying a home and the expenses that come with that purchase. It also teaches students how to compare loans and other mortgage products.
What does this word mean?
According the the author of the textbook, capital investment is the amount of cash you originally invested in the property plus anything you spend for improvements that added value to that property.
What is my familiarity with this word?
I have come across this word many times. I have seen it in my business textbooks, in financial newspaper and online articles. I recently started looking into buying a home and once again I have run into this word.
Do I want to know this word and why?
I absolutely want to know this word. First, as a teacher of financial and business education, it is important that I know as many related terms as possible. It is not good enough to just know these terms but to know these words really well and how they react with each other. Second, as a consumer of financial products such as mortgage notes and insurance, it is very important to understand the discourse of the financial community.
Do I want others to know this word?
I think that everybody should know this word. A capital investment is one that most consumers will make in their lifetime,so to be aware of the terminology used in making that investment/purchase is important.
I found this word in a Business Math textbook in a chapter on insurance and investments. This word was in a section of the chapter dealing with the rate of return on real estate. This chapter teaches students about buying a home and the expenses that come with that purchase. It also teaches students how to compare loans and other mortgage products.
What does this word mean?
According the the author of the textbook, capital investment is the amount of cash you originally invested in the property plus anything you spend for improvements that added value to that property.
What is my familiarity with this word?
I have come across this word many times. I have seen it in my business textbooks, in financial newspaper and online articles. I recently started looking into buying a home and once again I have run into this word.
Do I want to know this word and why?
I absolutely want to know this word. First, as a teacher of financial and business education, it is important that I know as many related terms as possible. It is not good enough to just know these terms but to know these words really well and how they react with each other. Second, as a consumer of financial products such as mortgage notes and insurance, it is very important to understand the discourse of the financial community.
Do I want others to know this word?
I think that everybody should know this word. A capital investment is one that most consumers will make in their lifetime,so to be aware of the terminology used in making that investment/purchase is important.
7:1 Writing Briefcase
Where and when did I find this word?
I found this word in Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children by Fountas and Pinnell. It was in a chapter about the importance of including the home life of students in the classroom.
What does this word mean?
According to Fountas and Pinnell, the Writing Briefcase is a plastic carrying case that contains all kinds of writing materials--tablets, markers, pencils, crayons, loose paper, stapled books, notebooks, envelopes, Post-Its, stickers, etc. Children rotate taking the briefcase home, each time sharing what they produced at home when they bring the briefcase back to school the next day.
What is my familiarity with this word?
I had no exposure to this word before reading Fountas and Pinnell.
Do I want to know this word?
I do want to know this word. I think it is a fantastic idea! "It helps children by taking their literacy learning into their homes and be recognized for their growing competence" (Fountas and Pinnell, 1996). It also helps to involve the parents of the students become more involved in the child's literacy development.
Do I want others to know this word?
I really like this idea for all the reasons I stated previously, but also because it emphasized the importance of writing and creating. I think that teachers should know this word. This idea can easily be adapted for content and differentiation purposes.
I found this word in Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children by Fountas and Pinnell. It was in a chapter about the importance of including the home life of students in the classroom.
What does this word mean?
According to Fountas and Pinnell, the Writing Briefcase is a plastic carrying case that contains all kinds of writing materials--tablets, markers, pencils, crayons, loose paper, stapled books, notebooks, envelopes, Post-Its, stickers, etc. Children rotate taking the briefcase home, each time sharing what they produced at home when they bring the briefcase back to school the next day.
What is my familiarity with this word?
I had no exposure to this word before reading Fountas and Pinnell.
Do I want to know this word?
I do want to know this word. I think it is a fantastic idea! "It helps children by taking their literacy learning into their homes and be recognized for their growing competence" (Fountas and Pinnell, 1996). It also helps to involve the parents of the students become more involved in the child's literacy development.
Do I want others to know this word?
I really like this idea for all the reasons I stated previously, but also because it emphasized the importance of writing and creating. I think that teachers should know this word. This idea can easily be adapted for content and differentiation purposes.
6:3 Cloze Techniques
Where and when did I find this word?
I found this word in Stephen B. Kucer's Dimensions of Literacy in a chapter on language variation. The discussion in which the word was found was about the limitations researchers encounter when testing various measurements of reading and writing. The word was found in the following sentence"
"In reading, some researchers have asked comprehension 2questions,some have used cloze techniques,
some have focused on vocabulary, and others have used recall procedures."
What does this word mean?
According to www.instructionalstrategiesonline.com, cloze procedures are techniques in which words are deleted from a passage according to a word-count formula or various other criteria. The passage is presented to students, who insert words as they read to complete and construct meaning from the text. This procedure can be used as a diagnostic reading assessment technique.
What is my familiarity with the word?
I learned this word during my first semester of grad school. I have created cloze passages for assignments but I have never administered such as assessment.
Do I want to know this word and why?
I absolutely want to know this word. This technique is used to identify such things as student knowledge, student vocabular7y ability, and it helps to determine what cues students use while reading. Literacy specialists should know this word and know it well. They should know the rationale behind using such a procedure and the correct way to prepare and administer it. Adaptations to the procedure should also be looked into.
Do I want others to know this word?
Yes, I think that other Literacy Specialists should know this word for the same reasons I should know this word. Reading and English educators should also know this word well. it may benefit all educators to know what cloze procedures consist of. People outside the education system probably won't find much use for this word.
I found this word in Stephen B. Kucer's Dimensions of Literacy in a chapter on language variation. The discussion in which the word was found was about the limitations researchers encounter when testing various measurements of reading and writing. The word was found in the following sentence"
"In reading, some researchers have asked comprehension 2questions,some have used cloze techniques,
some have focused on vocabulary, and others have used recall procedures."
What does this word mean?
According to www.instructionalstrategiesonline.com, cloze procedures are techniques in which words are deleted from a passage according to a word-count formula or various other criteria. The passage is presented to students, who insert words as they read to complete and construct meaning from the text. This procedure can be used as a diagnostic reading assessment technique.
What is my familiarity with the word?
I learned this word during my first semester of grad school. I have created cloze passages for assignments but I have never administered such as assessment.
Do I want to know this word and why?
I absolutely want to know this word. This technique is used to identify such things as student knowledge, student vocabular7y ability, and it helps to determine what cues students use while reading. Literacy specialists should know this word and know it well. They should know the rationale behind using such a procedure and the correct way to prepare and administer it. Adaptations to the procedure should also be looked into.
Do I want others to know this word?
Yes, I think that other Literacy Specialists should know this word for the same reasons I should know this word. Reading and English educators should also know this word well. it may benefit all educators to know what cloze procedures consist of. People outside the education system probably won't find much use for this word.
6:2 Orthography
Where and when did I find this word?
I found this word in Stephen B. Kucer's Dimensions of Literacy in a chapter on language variation. The word was found in the following sentence:
"As the British increasingly came in contact with the French language and culture,or as scientific
discoveries impacted the British experience, the orthography was adapted to accommodate these
encounters."
Kucer discusses the idea that language is not static. Spelling, usage, language rules, and systems change over time to accommodate the need of the peoples using he language.
What does this word mean?
According to http://www.merriam-webster.com/, orthography, is (a) the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage (b) the representation of the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols.
What is my familiarity with this word?
I've had no exposure to this word prior to reading Kucer.
Do I want to know this word and why?
I want to know this word well because it is important word for educators of reading,writing, and the English language to know this word well as well. For teachers that have English language learners in their classes, they should probably know a little about the orthography of the studetns' native language. The teacher can then make connections between the two languages in order to recognize what language skills the students' bring to the learning process.
Do I want others to know this word?
People in education, writing, and students of literacy should know this word well. For the rest of the general population, this word would expand their vocabulary abilities, which is always positive.
I found this word in Stephen B. Kucer's Dimensions of Literacy in a chapter on language variation. The word was found in the following sentence:
"As the British increasingly came in contact with the French language and culture,or as scientific
discoveries impacted the British experience, the orthography was adapted to accommodate these
encounters."
Kucer discusses the idea that language is not static. Spelling, usage, language rules, and systems change over time to accommodate the need of the peoples using he language.
What does this word mean?
According to http://www.merriam-webster.com/, orthography, is (a) the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage (b) the representation of the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols.
What is my familiarity with this word?
I've had no exposure to this word prior to reading Kucer.
Do I want to know this word and why?
I want to know this word well because it is important word for educators of reading,writing, and the English language to know this word well as well. For teachers that have English language learners in their classes, they should probably know a little about the orthography of the studetns' native language. The teacher can then make connections between the two languages in order to recognize what language skills the students' bring to the learning process.
Do I want others to know this word?
People in education, writing, and students of literacy should know this word well. For the rest of the general population, this word would expand their vocabulary abilities, which is always positive.
6:1 Literate
When and where did I find this word?
The word, literate, is in many of my current assignments in graduate school. I chose this as a vocabulary journal word because one of my first assignments this semester was to use my own language to define it. This may sound easy, but after thinking about it for some time, I realized that defining this word is not easy at all.
What does this word mean?
According to http://www.dictionary.com/, the word literate as an adjective means (1) able to read and write (2) having or showing knowledge of literature, writing (3) having knowledge or skill in a specified field, and (4) having an education.
What is my familiarity with this word?
I thought I was familiar with this word...and then I began the literacy program at Nazareth. it was then that I realized that I not only did not know the definition of this word but that its definition would be elusive for some time.
Two years later and after many, many, many hours of reading literacy theory and dissecting this theory in countless Socratic seminars, this is my current understanding of what is means to be literate: The literate person is able to acquire language skills, both implicitly and explicitly, and be able to facilitate both oral and written language using these skills, perpetually, and effectively in order to communicate successfully within various situational contexts.
Do I want to know this word and why?
It is important that I know this word. For reasons beyond the obvious, I feel like this word is important because it expands the possibilities of literacy.
Do I want others to know this word?
The nature of the education business requires educator to have an expanded vocabulary. This word word, because of its deictic an foundational attributes, should not only be "learned" but also analyzed and reflected upon so that it remains deictic and foundational.
The word, literate, is in many of my current assignments in graduate school. I chose this as a vocabulary journal word because one of my first assignments this semester was to use my own language to define it. This may sound easy, but after thinking about it for some time, I realized that defining this word is not easy at all.
What does this word mean?
According to http://www.dictionary.com/, the word literate as an adjective means (1) able to read and write (2) having or showing knowledge of literature, writing (3) having knowledge or skill in a specified field, and (4) having an education.
What is my familiarity with this word?
I thought I was familiar with this word...and then I began the literacy program at Nazareth. it was then that I realized that I not only did not know the definition of this word but that its definition would be elusive for some time.
Two years later and after many, many, many hours of reading literacy theory and dissecting this theory in countless Socratic seminars, this is my current understanding of what is means to be literate: The literate person is able to acquire language skills, both implicitly and explicitly, and be able to facilitate both oral and written language using these skills, perpetually, and effectively in order to communicate successfully within various situational contexts.
Do I want to know this word and why?
It is important that I know this word. For reasons beyond the obvious, I feel like this word is important because it expands the possibilities of literacy.
Do I want others to know this word?
The nature of the education business requires educator to have an expanded vocabulary. This word word, because of its deictic an foundational attributes, should not only be "learned" but also analyzed and reflected upon so that it remains deictic and foundational.
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