Wrestling with Words

Wrestling with Words

Explore the five parts of a powerful vocabulary program and unlock students' learning potential. Learn to prepare and present the right words while students place, process, and play with them meaningfully. This is a 10-hour CPE course.

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Course curriculum

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Module 1: Introduction
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Module 2: Why vocabulary instruction?
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Module 3: Prepare
- Retrieval: Why vocabulary instruction?
- Video: 4-quadrant vocabulary
- Text: 4-quadrant vocabulary
- Reflection: 4-quadrant vocabulary
- Video: Word knowledge scale
- Text: Word knowledge scale
- Reflection: Word knowledge scale
- Video: Vignette (Prepare)
- Text: Vignette (Prepare)
- Quiz: Prepare
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Module 4: Present
- Retrieval: Prepare
- Video: ABCs of vocabulary instruction
- Text: ABCs of vocabulary instruction
- Reflection: ABCs of vocabulary instruction
- Video: ABCs practice
- Reflection: ABCs practice
- Video: Vignette (Present)
- Text: Vignette (Present)
- Quiz: Present
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Module 5: Place
- Retrieval: Present
- Video: Word association and concept of definition map
- Text: Word association and concept of definition map
- Reflection: Word association and concept of definition map
- Video: Synonym maps
- Text: Synonym maps
- Reflection: Synonym maps
- Text: Meaning and usage maps
- Quiz: Place
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Module 6: Process (Mastery and Understanding)
- Retrieval: Prepare
- Video: Mastery processors and tasks
- Text: Mastery processors and tasks
- Reflection: Mastery processors and tasks
- Text: Vignette (Mastery tasks)
- Video: Understanding processors and tasks
- Text: Understanding processors and tasks
- Reflection: Understanding processors and tasks
- Text: Vignette (Understanding tasks)
- Quiz: Process (Mastery and understanding)
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Module 7: Process (Interpersonal and Self-expressive)
- Retrieval: Process (Mastery and Understanding)
- Video: Interpersonal processors and tasks
- Text: Interpersonal processors and tasks
- Reflection: Interpersonal processors and tasks
- Video: Self-expressive processors and tasks
- Text: Self-expressive processors and tasks
- Reflection: Self-expressive processors and tasks
- Quiz: Process (Interpersonal and self-expressive)
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Module 8: Process (Complex)
- Retrieval: Process (Interpersonal and Self-expressive)
- Video: Response stems
- Text: Response stems
- Video: Acrostics
- Text: Acrostics
- Reflection: Response stems and acrostics
- Video: Creating Analogies
- Text: Creating analogies
- Video: Writing
- Text: Writing
- Reflection: Creating analogies and writing
- Quiz: Process (Complex)
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Module 9: Play
- Retrieval: Process (Complex)
- Video: Word play
- Text: Word play
- Reflection: Word play
- Video: Word manipulation
- Text: Word manipulation
- Reflection: Word manipulation
- Quiz: Play
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Module 10: Final thoughts
- Retrieval: Play
- Text: Word consciousness
- Video: Planning
- Text: Planning
- PDF: Vocabulary Infographic
- PDF: Course certificate