Ch 4: Is My Vocabulary Instruction Culturally Responsive?

The best activity for building student vocabulary is by having students look up definitions in the dictionary and quizzing them on the words.

• True

• False

Based on Cronbach’s Dimensions of Knowing a Word, we should teach to:

• Generalization: the ability to define a word.

• Breadth: Ability to apply the word to multiple meanings.

• Availability: Ability to actually use the word, students own the word.

• Application: Ability to apply multiple meanings.

Which dimension of vocabulary instruction do most teachers implement in their classroom?

• Application: the ability to select or recognize a situation appropriately.

• Precision: ability to apply a term correctly to all situations and to recognize appropriate use.

• Breadth: Ability to apply multiple meanings.

• Generalization: ability to define a word.

Effective vocabulary building and instruction relies on students using a dictionary to find definitions?

• True

• False

Tier Three words or Content Area Words are those that students will rarely encounter in speech or print. According to Frayer's model, a tool for learning Tier Three words is:

• memorizing vocabulary definitions

• using a Personal Dictionary

• using a Personal Thesaurus

According to Graves, one of the three key recommended strategies for vocabulary acquisition is

• repeating definitions from a dictionary

• using context clues

• rewriting sentences with vocabulary