1. Increasing Comprehensible Input in Vocabulary Instruction Keith Pruitt, Ed.S. Doctoral Candidate Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting www.woweducationalconsulting.com www.myspace.com/wowedu

4. What is Comprehensible Input?

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10. The evidence strongly supports a simple hypothesis. We acquire language in only one way: when we understand messages; that is, when we obtain “comprehensible input.” We acquire language, in other words, when we understand what we hear or what we read, when we understand the message. Krashen, 2003 Comprehensible Input

11. Is Comprehensible Input something done by the teacher to the student or by the student based on the teacher?

12. The Greater the Comprehensible Input … … the greater the capacity to comprehend.

13. So which is more desirable? The student who reads every word? Or The student who understands the meaning?

15. And in the midst of normal conversation regarding comprehension, English Language Learners enter the picture and try to comprehend the input they receive. What must it be like? Perhaps this video will shed some light.

21. Background Transfer Chart CLOCK CUP FORK Is This In My Language? What I Know About Word English Word

22. Background Transfer Chart CLOCK CUP FORK 叉 ; 耙 Eat 杯子 Drink coffee 时钟 Tell Time Is This In My Language? What I Know About Word English Word

23. Background Transfer Chart CLOCK CUP FORK tenedor Food copa Coca reloj Time Is This In My Language? What I Know About Word English Word

25. The Work of J R Anderson Sensory Memory Working Memory Discards OR Permanent Memory Files Anderson, J.R. (1995). Learning and memory: An integrated approach. New York: John Wiley & Sons

27. How About Now? What Schema Do You Have For This Picture? Can you transfer your learning? Can you adopt new schemes for this if I give you information?

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32. Is This A Dilemma? Cell Sale Sail Ware Where Wear They’re There Their

37. Comforting - Something or someone that is comforting makes you feel good when you are sad or hurt. Beck & McKeown, Elements of Reading Vocabulary, Steck Vaughn, 2004 Further explain by putting the word in a context. A warm cup of tea is comforting when my throat hurts. My dog feels comforting when I am hurt.

44. By creating the visual representation, they are making the learning concrete by making permanent memory files. Why is this important?

46. Do Not Under-estimate the power of a picture. The Heart of the Tulip By Keith Pruitt

48. scheming The cats were scheming against the birds.

49. Invisible

50. Fatigue The bear was very fatigued from walking so far.

51. Icon Michael Phelps is an Icon of Olympic swimming.

52. Spider Would this be helpful in a Science lesson? ©Keith Pruitt, Art by Keith

53. Connecting an image to a vocabulary word is the way in which the brain files information. For ELL students, creating the visual representation is tantamount to creating the file in the permanent memory. See- Building Background Knowledge , Marzano

57. Reflection allows a refinement of understanding. It permits the memory file to be adjusted to incorporate new understandings.

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60. Games on Facebook

63. EAT ATE Will Eat A Graphic Way of Showing Tense Past Present Future

64. Use graphic organizers to help students use the words in meaningful contexts Drinking warm tea when my throat hurts Holding my cat in my lap A warm blanket on a cold night Comforting

65. Using Word Maps Helps Students Integrate New Words

66. Check the box that matches the meaning of the word at the top comforting Sandpaper A blanket Being hit Versatile Sing and dance Play piano Read a book Companionship A stranger Someone in Another city A Pet Fashionable Hoop Skirt Tailored suit Coveralls

67. The Flow Chart

69. So work becomes Works Worker Worked Working Will Work Labor Job Employment Exert Lazy A Word Tree Starts with Base Word

74. Create a word sort activity using these root words. Toy Fish Seal

76. Preview Using Story Mapping Build schema with Visual Anchor Visual Transference