embedded+skills

Introduced** || **How and When Practiced and Scaffolded** || **How assessed** ||
 * **Embedded Skill** || **S/S** || **How and When
 * Interpret Vocabulary

> context, using visual aids, drawing pictures, and labeling. > [|Building Academic Vocabulary] > Bringing Words to Life content areas || **How Practiced?**
 * Definition:** || I || **How?**
 * Determine most essential vocabulary to be taught
 * Teacher modeling/defining new vocabulary aloud, in
 * Creating a word/picture wall
 * Students make personal connections to the new words (webs;[|thinking maps]) Building a vocabulary notebook
 * [|Frayer model]
 * Pre/Post understanding (1,2.3) (green, yellow, red)
 * When?**
 * Beginning of new units, stories, themes across all
 * in authentic **reading** situations
 * small groups
 * partner games
 * [|games]
 * When?**
 * Word work time daily


 * How Scaffolded?**
 * scaffold questioning techniques
 * Bloom's Wheel
 * Word work (antonyms, synonyms, etc.)
 * add new learning (understanding) to vocabulary notebooks
 * discuss word choice/author's purpose


 * When?**
 * occassionally revisiting words in vocabulary notebook
 * using in different contexts or content areas || **Multiple modes of assessment**

Drawing pictures Labeling Definitions aloud Connecting to words Pre/Post check

White boards Vocabulary notebook Graphic organizers || [|Glossary]