Dare to Differentiate

1. Dare to
Differentiate
Vocabulary Strategies for All Students

2. Semantic Mapping
Dare to Differentiate
 What you will learn from this text:
 This is a collection of strategies based
on scientific researched designed for
classroom teachers interested in
providing a variety of vocabulary
learning strategies to their students
Analogies
Barrier
Games
Contextual
Redefinition
Exclusion
Brainstorming
Idioms
Interactive Word Walls
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Personal Vocabulary Journals
Read-
Alouds
Scavenger
Hunts
VOC
Strategy

3. Analogies
 Example:
 December is to winter as March is to
_________________.
Spring Warmer Parade Autumn
 Wheat is to bread as milk is to
_______________.
Cheese Cow Drink White
Types of Analogies:
-synonym : antonym
-cause : effect
-part : whole
Ways to Differentiate:
Oral practice
Visual with Pictures/Flashcards
Act-Out
Internet Games

4. Barrier Games
Victor
50
Cents
One
Quarter
$0.50
$0.75 75 ¢
Half
Dollar
Seventy
-Five
Cents
$.0.75
Manny
50
Cents
One
Quarter
$0.75 $0.75
Half
Dollar
Seventy
Five
Cents
75¢
Barrier
How To Q
Differentiate:
Allows students to
explore words on
their own
-practice words
orally, writing new
words, improvise
skits that use new
terms

5. Teacher will: Contextual Redefinition
Model how to
figure out the
meaning of an
unfamiliar word
Using: prefixes,
suffixes and root
words
Example
Words 0=Don’t
know
1=Have
Heard
2=Know
and Use
Predicted
meaning
before
reading
Meaning
after
reading
Context
Clues
Fraction 0 I don’t
know
Part of
something
He didn’t eat
all of his
sandwich. He
only ate part
of it.
Greater 2 Better More than If you have
more than
somebody
else, you are
greater.
Completed
document

6. Exclusion Brainstorming
Book Title: Growing Up
in Ancient
Rome
By: M.
Corbishley &
C. Molan
Romans Pantheon Dynasty
Martians Pizza Julius Caesar
Taxes Wrestlers Hercules
Circus Highways Latin
Spices Chariot races Storm
troopers
Gladiators Colosseum Roads
Pyramids Aqueducts Emperor
What to Do?
1. Place the title of
the book and a
brainstorming
list on the
chalkboard (new
words)
2. Ask the
students to
identify words
that they think
will appear in the
story
3. Put a line
through words
that they do not
think will be in
the story
4. Share results as
a class
Example of students’ exclusion brainstorming

7. Idioms
Expression = to be the apple
of someone’s eye
Definition/Example:
To be the person who
someone loves most and is
very proud of
Even though Maria has two
sisters, she is the apple of her
mother’s eye.
Ways to Differentiate:
• Allow students to work
in partners
• Demonstrate
understanding by
pictures or skits or
self-authored stories
or greeting cards

8. Interactive Word Wall
Example of a thematic word wall on the
A
American
Revolution
authorize
B
Bill of
Rights
brave
C
Colony
Convince
Constitution
D
Declaration of
Independence
democrac
y
E-F
Election
Founding
Fathers
G
Government
governor
H-I
Independence
invade
J-K
justice
L-M
Legislature
Liberty
Loyal
Military
N-O
Noble
opponent
P-Q
patriot
Protest
political
R-S
Rebel
Sacrifice
Signature
surrender
T
Taxation
transformation
U-V
Unanimous
W
Wartime
weapon
X-Y-Z
U.S. Constitution
Purpose-> provide students
with a visual tool to assist
with expressive vocabulary
Ways to Differentiate:
1. Student create a
poster board word
wall
2. Create word wall
on own student
desk

9. K-W-L
Instructional strategy to allow students an active role before, during and after reading an
K
What we
know
W
What we
want to
know
L
What we
learned
+
What we
still need
to learn
expository text
How to Differentiate:
• Students can successfully
Work together in partners
• Have students just verbally
Discuss the topics
• Some students may want
To write down their own
Experiences

10. Morphemic Analysis
Prefix Meaning Example
Peri- Around, near Perimeter
Ex Out External
Pre- Before Predict
To Differentiate:
Have students create
their own words
PRACTICE
Root Meaning Examples
Meter Measure Diameter
Dict Say Predict
Struct Build Construct
Suffix Meaning Examples
-ence Thing Circumference
-ble Likely to be Probable
-cess Going Process
Teach Students->
“Anti” ex:
anti homework
“Pro” ex: pro recess

11. How to Differentiate: Personal Vocabulary Journal
Allow the student to decide
How to story vocabulary words
For future reference
Ways:
Pictures
photographs,
words
In a sentence
listing formal definitions
Vocabulary
word
Language Arts Journal Example
My
definition
How and
where the
word was
used in my
reading
Ways to
help me
what the
word means
Sprout Pop up, grow “yet your
example and
your words
sprout a new
in the field
rows..”
Drowsy Sleepy “Are the
flowers
drowsy stars
that lie
sleeping in the
fields?
I get drowsy
late at night.

12. Read Alouds
 Read Aloud Vocabulary
Book: Grossology by S. Branzei
Words Meaning
Barf, upchucking, throwing
up
analysis
Vomit
Study
A
Allows students to listen
A
Teacher can differentiate their
voice while reading
A
Teachers can set different moods, lighting,read in different places of the classroom
A
Teachers can discuss target vocabulary words before
And after to help develop students vocabulary knowledge

13. Text Talk
Emphasizes on the importance of the talk surrounding the text
 Examples of Text Talk Questions
 Looking at the cover, what is this book
about?
 Why does the man have so many caps on
his head?
 Why does the man so angry? How can
you tell he was angry?
 Why did the monkeys throw the caps back
to the ground?
New vocabulary words:
Peddler Disturb
Ordinary Refreshed
Checked Stamped
Country
Teacher may start
The text talk but gradually,
Hand it over to students
Throughout the year
Differentiate

14. VOC Strategies
Reminder
List:
• Locate and
predict
• Consult and
experiment
• Connect and
Explain
Example: Worksheet for
student to complete
Vocabulary Word
Parallelogram
1. Write a sentence in which the word appears in the
text? For months he practiced in secret. Soon he was
making square and triangles ..and parallelograms.
2. Based upon how it is used in the text, predict what the
word means.
The sentence does not help much. There are pictures but
they show lots of different shapes.
3. Consult an “expert” for the actual definition.
The dictionary says a parallelogram is..”
4. Show your understanding of the word by using it in a
sentence of your own.
5. Choose one of the following ways to help you
remember the meaning: draw a picture, select and
perform miming action.
6. Explain why you chose this way to represent what the
word means to you.

15. Other Vocabulary
Strategies:
 Concept Ladders
 Hierarchical and Linear Arrays
 List-Group-Label
 Possible Sentences
 Scavenger Hunts
 Semantic Feature Analysis
 Semantic Mapping
 Word Plays, Riddles, Sorts
 Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
 Vocab-O-Grams
 Cards
Brassell, Danny. Dare to
differentiate: vocabulary
strategies for all students. 3rd
ed. New York: Guilford Press,
2011.
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