Develop vocabulary and word skills

Teach word learning strategies and academic vocabulary

Teaching Tier 2 academic vocabulary when explicit word learning is needed.

• · Unknown word in context
• · Reader vocabulary tier
• · Text domain

• · Tier classification
• · Context clue strategy
• · Morphological breakdown
• · Etymology

• · Reader can decode phonetically
• · Can identify word class
• · Tier 1 vocab (500+ words)

• · Context clues unreliable (15% success)
• · Morphology fails on irregular words
• · Etymology obscured
• · Figurative language untranslatable

• · Tibsfox research
• · Beck three-tier standard
• · Hu & Nation 2000 vocabulary predictor
• · 20 prefixes → 97% coverage