Vocabulary

=**Vocabulary**=

Check out videos from actual Newton South teachers at our video site here. (You need to create a Vimeo account first and then drop Brian Baron an email; a pain, to be sure, but the way we can see the videos but also keep them out of general circulation).

Here are lessons that teachers created as part of the Oct. 6, 2010, professional development on vocabulary instruction: Here's Deb Linder's excellent vocab powerpoint from the PD day:

And here are two tools that Steve Rattendi put together for math teachers: [|A crossword puzzle generator] And a pdf of a "wordle," which creates nifty visual arrangements of words. If you want a word to appear "larger" in the graphic, then type it multiple times. In the example attached, Steve typed trigonometry 5 times and sine three times:

This isn't exactly a vocabulary resource, but this video describes how Brockton High School has made incredible achievement gains through an intense focus on literacy across the curriculum (you need to download realplayer to play it).

Coming soon, we'll post the videos of NSHS teachers modeling the techniques we discussed on 106.