anita archer’s explicit vocabulary instruction

Anita Archer’s

EXPLICIT VOCABULARYINSTRUCTION—Words for Everyone—

FACILITATOR’S GUIDE

© 2015 Anita Archer. All rights reserved.Cover and interior design by Aaron Graham

The purchasing school administrator, coach, or educator is granted permission to use and reproduce the materials provided on the CD solely for the purpose of facilitating Explicit Vocabulary Instruction: Words for Everyone DVD inservices. Except as expressly permitted above and under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, neither the Facilitator’s Guide, DVDs, nor any contents thereon may be used, reproduced, or distributed in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Introduction ..................................................................................................................................1

Who Should Participate ................................................................................................. 1Who Can Facilitate ......................................................................................................... 1

About the Materials ...................................................................................................................2

DVDs .................................................................................................................................. 2Reproducible Materials ................................................................................................... 3Explicit Instruction Book .................................................................................................. 3

Setting Up Training ....................................................................................................................4

Training Schedule ........................................................................................................... 4Class Structure (Participants) ...................................................................................... 4

For an Entire Staff ............................................................................... 4For a Small Study Group .................................................................... 5For an Individual (Teacher or Paraprofessional) .............................. 5For Mentor-Mentee Pairs .................................................................... 5For a District or Service Center Class ................................................ 5For a College or University Course ..................................................... 5

Before Beginning Training Sessions .......................................................................................6

Before Each Training Session ...................................................................................................7

During Training Sessions ...........................................................................................................8

Increasing Training Effectiveness ...........................................................................................9

Distribute training across time ..................................................................................... 9Create opportunities for discussion and synthesis of concepts ............................... 9Create opportunities for (but do not require) peer coaching ................................... 9Create a level of accountability that puts gentle pressure on participants to try new strategies ......................................................................................................10

Keeping It Going (When the Training is Finished) ............................................................. 12

Provide follow-up inservices or review classes .......................................................12Periodically send memos and reminders about explicit vocabulary instruction training information ..............................................................................12Summarize key instruction ideas and strategies in a staff handbook ................12

Tables of Scheduling Options ................................................................................................. 13

Table of Contents

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to

cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”

—Nikos Kazantzakis

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IntroductionDr. Anita Archer, the presenter of Explicit Vocabulary Instruction: Words for Everyone, is a nationally recognized consultant and author on explicit instruction, behavior management, literacy instruction, and staff development. Explicit Vocabulary Instruc-tion is part of Dr. Archer’s Explicit Instruction series. Explicit Vocabulary Instruction correlates with Chapter 3 and parts of Chapter 8 of Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching by Anita Archer and Charles Hughes.

In this video inservice, Dr. Archer highlights why effective vocabulary instruc-tion is essential to all students’ success, describes effective strategies for teaching vocabulary, and models effective instruction. Her clear, fast-paced, and engaging style makes the presentations not only informative but interesting and entertain-ing as well. Footage of Dr. Archer teaching groups of students demonstrate how explicit vocabulary instruction improves engagement and learning and deepens the content knowledge and comprehension of all students in a class.

This Facilitator’s Guide describes how to use Explicit Vocabulary Instruction: Words for Everyone for an inservice training. The program consists of four video sessions that run from approximately 40 minutes to 2 hours, 15 minutes. Corresponding repro-ducible materials for each session are provided on the accompanying CD. This guide provides an overview of the inservice training and materials, along with options for organizing the training and increasing training effectiveness.

Who Should Participate The Explicit Vocabulary Instruction inservice is appropriate for K–6 classroom teach-ers in both general and special education, Title I teachers, reading support teachers, and interventionists. The training may also benefit administrators, coaches, and other personnel who assist teachers with instructional practices and classroom man-agement issues. It may also be used in undergraduate or graduate college courses.

Who Can FacilitateThe Explicit Vocabulary Instruction inservice is designed for flexibility. Training sessions may be facilitated by a single individual or co-facilitated by members of a group who use the materials as a self-study program. Facilitation responsibilities include reading through the Facilitator’s Guide, arranging for and conducting the

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training sessions, printing handouts and follow-up materials for participants for each session, and ordering Explicit Instruction books. Potential facilitators include regional inservice presenters, district-level coordinators, building administrators or team leaders, instructional coaches, curriculum coordinators, or even individual teachers in a leadership role. In a self-study situation, the facilitator’s role may be assumed by one of the participants or rotated so that each participant takes a turn facilitating one or more of the sessions.

About the MaterialsThe primary materials needed for this inservice are the Explicit Vocabulary Instruc-tion DVDs and reproducible materials, which are included on a CD. An optional but recommended third item, the Explicit Instruction book, must be ordered separately.

DVDsThe basic training materials for this program are the four DVDs, which contain four separate sessions (see box below for breakout by disc). Note: Sessions 2 and 3 are split among different discs because of length.

Disc 1 w Session 1: Importance of Vocabulary Instruction (40 minutes) w Session 2: Preparing for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction (50 minutes)

Disc 2(Continued) Session 2: Preparing for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction (1 hour, 24 minutes)

Disc 3Session 3: Teaching Vocabulary Words (52 minutes)

Disc 4 w (Continued) Session 3: Teaching Vocabulary Words (1 hour, 14 minutes) w Session 4: Making it Stick—Providing Practice (41 minutes)

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Reproducible MaterialsAll reproducible materials are provided as PDF files and can be copied and printed from the Explicit Vocabulary Instruction CD. This includes:

w Facilitator’s Guide w PowerPoint slides used in the videos and referenced by Dr. Archer for each session

w Review and follow-up tasks for each session. These tasks allow the facilitator and participants to focus on key points from each session and determine specific actions they will take to implement relevant strategies in their own classrooms.

Explicit Instruction BookTo get the most out of the training sessions, we recommend that every participant in the training have a copy of the Explicit Instruction book in order to access additional information about the concepts presented on the DVDs. The following pages provide an excellent written source for understanding explicit instruction of vocabulary. Participants may also wish to read Chapter 1: Exploring the Foundations of Explicit Instruction, pages 1–22, prior to the start of the training.

w Video Session 1: Chapter 3, pages 53–54 w Video Session 2: Chapter 3, pages 55–70 w Video Session 3: Chapter 3, pages 70–91 w Video Session 4: Chapter 8, pages 201–209

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Session 1 Handout

Importance of Vocabulary Instruction

Explicit Vocabulary Instruction: Words for Everyone

Anita L. Archer, Ph.D.

© 2015 Anita Archer. All rights reserved.

The purchasing school administrator, coach, or educator is granted permission to use and reproduce this materials solely for the purpose of facilitating Explicit Vocabulary Instruction: Words for Everyone DVD inservices. Except as expressly permitted above and under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, neither the Facilitator’s Guide, DVDs, nor any contents thereon may be used, reproduced, or distributed in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Any resources and website addresses are provided for reader convenience and were cur-rent at the time of publication. Report any broken links to [email protected].

Note: This waiver does not allow permission to copy pages from the book Explicit Instruction. See copyright information within that book for permissions and limitations.

Photo used in the Explicit Instruction backdrop by Nathan Cashion. Copyright 2011

UPDC (Utah Personnel Development Center).

Published in the United States by Pacific Northwest Publishing

21 W. 6th Ave., Eugene, OR 97401www.pacificnwpublish.com

PacificNorthwestPublishing

1Photo by Nathan Cashion © 2011 UPDC (Utah Personnel Development Center)

Explicit Vocabulary Instruction Words for Everyone

Session 1: Importance of Vocabulary

Instruction 2

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Dynamic Vocabulary Program (Graves, 2006)

Explicit Instruction Academic Vocabulary

Explicit Instruction Word Learning

Strategies

Language-Enriched Classroom

Word Consciousness

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Explicit Instruction Academic Vocabulary

• Teaching individual words• General Academic Vocabulary• Domain-Specific Academic Vocabulary

• In all subjects• Reading Math Science Social Studies

Health Music Art Physical Education

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Importance of Vocabulary Instruction—Conclusion

To close the vocabulary gap, vocabulary acquisition must be accelerated through intentional instruction.

Vocabulary instruction must be a focus in all classes in all grades.

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Words are all we have to:

• Express emotions• Express ideas• Learn new concepts• Develop background knowledge for future learning• Collaborate with others


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Instruction must be: Intentional Dynamic Robust Engaging Motivating Persistent Explicit

How well we teach = How well they learn


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Explicit Vocabulary Instruction: Words for Everyone

Follow-Up Tasks

After Session 1 Importance of Vocabulary Instruction

Key Ideas

Dynamic Vocabulary Program

Dynamic vocabulary programs include four important components (Graves, 2006):

1. teaching of individual vocabulary words to students

2. Teaching students word learning

3. Developing a language-enriched

4. Fostering word

List strategies you currently employ to teach and review vocabulary.

Importance of Vocabulary Instruction

1. Vocabulary is an integral part of language—both language (reading and listening comprehension) and language (writing and speaking).

2. Vocabulary is directly related to .

3. Children’s vocabulary in early grades is related to reading in the upper grades.

Conclusion: Vocabulary instruction needs to begin .

Follow-Up TasksSession 1 Importance of Vocabulary Instruction

The Vocabulary GapWith a partner:

1. Use the findings of Hart and Risley (1995) to describe the differences between childrenof professional families and children of poverty.

2. Share an example of: “Vocabulary begets vocabulary.”


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