Presented at TNTESOL conference 2012. This is the ticketed session and it is a bit longer than the previous presentation with a similar title. Works with multimedia in teaching vocabulary.

1. Ignite Vocabulary
with a Multimedia
Approach
Keith Pruitt, Ed.S.
Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting
www.woweducationalconsulting.com

2. If teachers are teaching only 200 words
per year, by 4th grade students will
already be 50% behind where they need
to be.
--Keith Pruitt
How Great is the Deficit?
Turn and Talk
Deficit of 800
words

3. Beck, McKeown, Kucan
• Vocabulary must first be orally introduced.
• Vocabulary is not grade specific.
• Words must be explained, not defined.
• Must be contextualized.
• Multiple usages in a meaningful context (8-10).
• Create Schema (visual representation)
• Students reflect with each other
• Three Tiers of Vocabulary

4. The Work of J R Anderson
Discards
OR
Sensory Working Permanent
Memory Memory Memory Files
This speaks to why creating schema is so very important.
Anderson, J.R. (1995). Learning and memory: An integrated approach. New York: John
Wiley & Sons

5. Teacher Presented Visuals
The word we are going to
talk about is invisible.
So what would that
mean?
If something is
invisible, you can’t
see it.

6. Invisible

7. Pollen

8. © Art by Keith
antenna

9. Exaggerate
Beck and McKeown, Elements of Reading Vocabulary, Steck Vaughn, 2004

10. scheming

11. Bison

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

13. American
Bald
Eagle

14. Box
Turtle

15. Camels

16. Frog on lily pad

17. budding
17

18. descend
18

19. dilapidated
19

21. Today in science we are
talking about volcanoes.

22. Mt. Saint Helens

23. What Words can I
teach based on the
video just seen?
Turn and Talk

28. Here are real
students working
with words in a
real classroom.
There are a wide
variety of
students in this
classroom
including IEP
students.

30. Provide purpose for reading
Glossary terms are highlighted
fingerprint
Terms are defined for the
students in words they can
understand
Pearson Longman, Keystone, Level E

32. Student Created
Visual
Representation

33. http://www.wordle.net/

42. How To Use Visual
Literacy to Teach
Reading

45. Flexible
Something flexible can
be bent without
breaking

46. http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Outreach/Publications/GIP19/chapter_three_play-
dough_topo.pdf

48. Making Learning More Concrete

49. It is so important for children S
to have words.
U
As a teacher, the most
important teaching I can do is
C
to give students words. C
E
And when I have done that I
will experience one of the
S
most delightful words in the S
dictionary…

50. Thank You
Keith Pruitt, Ed.S.
Words of Wisdom
Educational Consulting
www.woweducationalconsulting.com