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Creating Student
Vocabulary Collectors!
A free preview from our Common Core Vocabulary
Lesson Collection
Over the summer of 2013, Dena and I finalized eleven vocabulary-based writing
lessons and activities designed to promote Common Core vocabulary skills and
deeper thinking. This PowerPoint lesson introduces our weekly routine of seeking
out and publishing new vocabulary words. You can also freely preview two of the
writing activities: Personifying Vocabulary Words & Imp-Int-Exclam Sentences.
If youre interested in ordering the entire set of 10 Common Core-inspired

Vocabulary lessons, click here, or visit our websites Teachers Pay Teachers Store to
see what we also offer reading and writing teachers.
Our teaching materials
Thanks for your interest in our work! are copyrighted. You
may not post them to
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Vocabulary Collectors
Welcome! Author Roni Schotter
wrote a picture book
This slide presentation will called The Boy Who
explain your weekly Loved Words. Its
expectations in collecting about a boy named
Selig who collects
vocabulary words from the interesting words,
books, poems, short stories and I expect my
and other class-related texts students to become
as excited about
you are reading. discovering new words as Selig becomes.
With each collected word, you Click here to freely access that lesson on-line.
will create an original piece of This PowerPoint shares that very same lesson
presented for students in a PowerPoint format.
short, thoughtful writing to
help you remember the word.
This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter:
An avid word-hoarder, Selig delights in discovering new
terms, recording them on paper scraps, and stowing
them in pockets
Selig realizes that his mission is to bestow his word

wealth upon others. He tosses out luscious to accentuate a baker's wares,
halts an argument with harmony, and invigorates an elderly man with spry.
He grows up to find personal fulfillment and even true love
An inspiring choice for young wordsmiths and anyone who cherishes the
variety and vitality of language.
--Joy Fleischhacker, School Library Journal

( Reed Business Information. All rights reserved.)

Welcome to your Vocabulary Expectations this Year!
Like Selig, you will always be in search of new words this school year.
While reading for class, youll write down a dozen or more vocabulary
words every week. Once a week, youll select your best four words and
create a short piece of writing about each. Your words for your collection
may come from other sources, but three every week need to come from
the book youre currently reading or that were reading as a class.
Below the four words you collect, you will always need to do a short piece
of writing that shows you understand each words meaning; these will be
called your meaningful writing activities. There are ten different
activities to choose from.
Each week you must complete four different meaningful writing activities.

I will teach you these ten writing activities individually in the future!
1. Personified 2. Mr. Stick 3. Vocabulary 4. Synonym & 5. Symbolic
Vocabulary Cartoons Haikus Antonym Lists Representations
Re-envision your This art-doesnt- Write a nature- Match your Create an original
vocab word as a count-against-you inspired 17- vocabulary words figurative
person, and task requires use syllable poem that part of speech representation for
write a description of a vocab word uses your vocab when making these your vocab word,
that explains your in a caption or word. Dont lists of antonyms & then write a strong
personification. dialogue bubble. waste syllables! synonyms. justification.
6. E.G.O.T. 7. Root-Related 8. Showing 9. Imp-Int-Exclam 10. Sausage

Sentences Word Lists Sentences Sentences Sentences
An E.G.O.T. is a Investigate the Write an action- Demonstrate your These sentences
special vocabulary Greek and Latin verb inspired knowledge of the follow a wacky
word that fits four roots in your sentence that four sentence pattern that will
categories (not vocabulary word, shows you know types by creating truly challenge your
easy to find), then then find how to create a this set of vocab brain. Provide an
you put all four different words context clue or inspired sentences illustration to help
forms in one silly that are truly two for your that contain good your reader make
sentence. related. reader. context clue. sense of them.
What kind of words to collect
The older you grow, the more sophisticated your vocabulary should become.
Discuss with a partner the rationale for placing the following words in the
different columns of this word classification system.
1 words 5 words 10 words 25 words 50 words

The big delicate idealistic graupel
a/an fun useless perplexed hypermetropia
I nice violet convivial crepescular
is walk blame banter nunatak
of run dislike circumscribe ombrophobia
in hit polish daunt philatelist
me dog teen-ager exuberance autotroph
was tree doctor despot acrolith
she cup unicorn whimsy quidnunc

The older you grow, the more sophisticated your vocabulary should be.
Discuss with a partner the rationale for placing the following words in
the different columns of this word classification system.
1 words 5 words These are your little kid words.

The big
You know youre a little kid when you are
a/an fun
still excited by pennies and nickels.
I nice
is walk Everybody needs these words to make
of run sentences and to convey ideas in basic
in hit ways. These words never go away.
me dog
was tree At some point, you start paying more
she cup attention to the dime words.

10 words 25 words Ten-centers are harder words that you

delicate idealistic start learning when you start losing your
useless perplexed little kid voice. Older kids use these.
violet convivial
blame banter To be a ten-cent word, you must know
dislike circumscribe what the word means without needing
polish daunt any other words to clue you in.
teen-ager exuberance
doctor despot Twenty-five cent words require context
unicorn whimsy clues or dictionaries to recall meaning.

50 words Fifty-cent words are words that only

graupel specialists or trivia experts know without
hypermetropia having to look them up.
crepescular
nunatak Everybody should have at least one fifty-
ombrophobia cent word in their personal collectiona
philatelist word they know the meaning of but
autotroph almost no one else does.
acrolith
quidnunc Whats your fifty-cent word?

25 words If youre reading a hard enough book,

idealistic you will be encountering 25-cent words
perplexed for yourself on every page orat
convivial leastevery other.
banter All this year, you will be analyzing our in-
circumscribe class and out-of-class texts for 25-cent
daunt words. Store your words on a bookmark.
exuberance
despot Each week, you will select your four best
whimsy from your bookmark. They will become

Your Four Vocabulary
Words of the Week.
Want to do well with
your vocabulary
collecting grade?
Make yours look like

you took the care these
collectors did when
presenting the words.
Haphazardly assembled
vocabulary words will
earn you poor scores
from your teacher.

Your Four Vocabulary
Words of the Week.
Like Selig from the
book, take pride in the
type of words you
collect; choose words
you know you should
use more often.
Like these students

collection pages, take
pride in the way you
present your words of
the week.
So how do you find
25-cent words?

dictionary
And the more dime words The words you collect need to be between
memory
in your memory pocket, these two ends of this continuum, but much
the smarter your speaking closer to the right side than the left.
and writing will sound.
5-cent words 10-cent words 25-cent words

walk strut perambulate
flower daisy delphinium
good outstanding erudite
buy purchase patronize
dog hound mongrel
nice pleasant delectable
Everybodys different! What I call a 25-cent word might be a 10-cent for you already.
Your goal should be to turn your quarter words into your dime words. Why?
Because on any given day, you can fit more dimes in your pocket than quarters.

From The Pearl by John Steinbeck Read this paragraph
from a famous novel.
Kino and Juana came slowly down to the beach
and to Kino's canoe, which was the one thing of value he Lets focus on what
owned in the world. It was very old. Kino's grandfather should be a 25-cent
had brought it from Nayarit, and he had given it to Kino's word for everyone,
father, and so it had come to Kino. It was at once includingperhaps
property and source of food, for a man with a boat can your teacher.
guarantee a woman that she will eat something. It is the
bulwark against starvation. And every year Kino Can you decipher this
refinished his canoe with the hard shell-like plaster by words meaning based
on clues (context) in
the secret method that had also come to him from his
the same sentence, or
father. Now he came to the canoe and touched the bow in nearby sentences.
tenderly as he always did. He laid his diving rock and his
basket and the two ropes in the sand by the canoe. And Discuss possible
he folded his blanket and laid it in the bow. answers with a partner.
(Click here to open a printable version of this text.)

and to Kino's canoe, which was the one thing of value he A bulwark is a fancy
owned in the world. It was very old. Kino's grandfather noun meaning defensive
had brought it from Nayarit, and he had given it to Kino's wall.
father, and so it had come to Kino. It was at once Even with context clues,
property and source of food, for a man with a boat can it would have been
guarantee a woman that she will eat something. It is the difficult to guess exactly
bulwark against starvation. And every year Kino right in this context,
refinished his canoe with the hard shell-like plaster by especially since
the secret method that had also come to him from his Steinbeck isnt being
father. Now he came to the canoe and touched the bow literal.
tenderly as he always did. He laid his diving rock and his Can you think of a
basket and the two ropes in the sand by the canoe. And context you might use
he folded his blanket and laid it in the bow. bulwark, literal or not?

and to Kino's canoe, which was thebulwark
one thing of value he If bulwark seems to be
owned in the world. It was very old. Kino's grandfather worthy of considering
25 for your vocabulary
had brought it from Nayarit, and he had given it to Kino's
hummock collection, pull out your
father, and so it had come to Kino. It was at once bookmark and write it
property and source of food, for a man with27 a boat can down.
guarantee a woman that she will eat incandescence
something. It is the
bulwark against starvation. And every year Kino 28 By the end of each week
speculationplaster by
refinished his canoe with the hard shell-like you should have 12-25
words on your bookmark
the secret method that had also come to him 32from his
to choose from.
father. Now he came to the canoe and touched the bow
benediction
tenderly as he always did. He laid his diving rock
34
and his Your best four will go
basket and the two ropes in the sand by the canoe. And into your vocabulary
subjugation
he folded his blanket and laid it in the bow. collection for the week.
35

Requirements for your four words bulwark (noun) a defensive wall
of the week:
or something else serving as a
You must write the word down on your
safeguard.
collection sheet, correctly identifying found on pg. 25 of The Pearl
the part of speech and defining it in
words that sound like your own words, I chose a symbolic representation:
not using the dictionarys dry voice. If In soccer, teammates
you cant explain what the word means can form a bulwark
based on the definition you wrote, you against the opposing
did a bad job of writing down the team. I will associate
required definition in your own words. this picture with the
word bulwark the
You must identify where it was you read next time I encounter it. I sometimes
or heard the word. Remember, book wish I had an imaginary wall of soccer
titles are always underlined. players I could put up between
me and the world. Image found at
Youll then create a meaningful writing http://www.gettyimages.com
task to show you can use the word.

Again, I will teach you the writing activities individually in the future!
1. Personified 2. Mr. Stick 3. Vocabulary 4. Synonym & 5. Symbolic
Vocabulary Cartoons Haikus Antonym Lists Representations
Re-envision your This art-doesnt- Write a nature- Match your Create an original
vocab word as a count-against-you inspired 17- vocabulary words figurative
person, and task requires use syllable poem that part of speech representation for
write a description of a vocab word uses your vocab when making these your vocab word,
that explains your in a caption or word. Dont lists of antonyms & then write a strong
personification. dialogue bubble. waste syllables! synonyms. justification.
6. E.G.O.T. 7. Root-Related 8. Showing 9. Imp-Int-Exclam 10. Sausage
Sentences Word Lists Sentences Sentences Sentences
An E.G.O.T. is a Investigate the Write an action- Demonstrate your These sentences
special vocabulary Greek and Latin verb inspired knowledge of the follow a wacky
word that fits four roots in your sentence that four sentence pattern that will
categories (not vocabulary word, shows you know types by creating truly challenge your
easy to find), then then find how to create a this set of vocab brain. Provide an
you put all four different words context clue or inspired sentences illustration to help
forms in one silly that are truly two for your that contain good your reader make
sentence. related. reader. context clue. sense of them.
Youre only allowed to use each activity one time per week. Make good choices based
on your vocabulary words meaningsand the different forms your word can come in.
My best tips for making a great and well-graded vocabulary collection:
Spell the words correctly on your bookmark and record the page number. I cant tell you
how many students will have to look back in their books to find the sentence where the
vocabulary word sat because they carelessly misspelled it when they wrote it down.
Sometimes youll discover the word youve recorded is an old-fashioned word, probably
no longer in use. When students find spinet in the historically-based novel Chains, many
record it on their bookmarks. If its not used anymore, dont collect it, I always say.
Andif students read Animal Farm, they will discover a British word for a pantrya
larderand many record the word on their bookmarks. Do you see yourself needing to
use that word in the future? I ask. If no, then dont collect it.
Practice your parts of speech while collecting. Teach yourself to identify (or intelligently
guess) your vocabulary words part of speech before you look in the dictionary.
Challenge yourself! How many can you get right this week?

Speaking of parts of speech
These three parts of speech are the ones that will contribute the most if
you are making the best collection. Nouns, verbs and adjectives are your
power words for reading and writing. Adverbs are great too, but well
talk about them later; for now, these are the big three.
The four other parts of speechprepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and
interjectionsthese are your 1-cent and 5-cent words (under, into, him,
we, and, when, wow, gosh), and you already know them.
Practice your parts of speech while collecting. Teach yourself to identify (or guess
intelligently) your vocabulary words part of speech before you look in the dictionary.

Know your noun suffixes! Repeat. Know your noun suffixes!
__ persons, places, things, and ideas all
serve as nouns in our language .
Some nouns are touch-able, which means
theyre concrete nouns because they have
Noun Suffixes:
physical forms. Examples? -ment
-ship
Some nounslike thought and happinessare -ness
bodiless, and that means theyre abstract -ance/-ancy
nouns because they dont have physical forms. -ence/-ency
-ion/-sion/-tion
Here are the most common noun suffixes. -ism

Know your noun suffixes! Repeat. Know your noun suffixes!
__ persons, places, things, and ideas all
serve as nouns in our language
Learn your noun suffixes. They are a smart tool.
Noun Suffixes:
Seeing that theres a pattern to identifying a -ment
noun will help you discover new nouns and youll -ship
know when youre using a noun, not a verb. -ness
adjective/verb + noun suffix = noun -ance/-ancy
-ence/-ency
-ion/-sion/-tion
Creating nouns using this pattern will help you
-ism
spot spelling patterns too. These are smart tools.

Remove your verb suffixes! Repeat. Remove your verb suffixes!
action words and state of being words
(like throw, laugh, and scream) (like was, is, and are)
Important: When collecting a verb, youll need

to remove the tense suffix in order to look up Verb Tense Suffixes:
your verb in the dictionary. -ed
-ing
If you find the verb quantifying, youll want to -s/-es/-ies
record it as just quantify on your bookmark.
If you find the word ensconced, what do you Thats pretty much all of them.
think youll record/look up? They should be easy to practice.

Know your adjective suffixes! Repeat. Know your adjective suffixes!
Important: When defining an adjective, often
the dictionary will do so using the noun or verb
form of the same word. For example
Adjective Suffixes:
If you look up perilous, and it is defined as full
-ous (as in sonorous)
of or involving peril, you cant write that as your
-al (as in pivotal)
definition because peril is the same word as
-y (as in muggy)
perilous, just in noun form.
-ive (as in elective)
You need to look up the noun formperiland perilous (adj.) full of or involving
borrow words from that definition to replace danger
the word peril in the definition you found.

My best tips for making a great and well-graded vocabulary collection:
Ill bet that 95% of the new words you learnyour 25-cent wordsare
nouns, verbs or adjectives. A smart Language Arts student learns to
identify the part of speech without the dictionarys help by using suffixes.
A smart Language Arts student learns recognizes that many wordsperil
and perilous, for exampleare the same word, just in the form of different
parts of speech. Why is this an important skill?
You end up learning two forms of a new word for the price of looking up one.

25-cent words are those words you dont know unless you look in the
dictionary or reread the sentence to decipher meaning from context clues.
Three of your four 25-cent words each week must come from our reading.
25 words If we read something in class together,

idealistic you may collect 25-cent words from it.
perplexed If you find it in a whole class novel, you
convivial may collect 25-cent words from it.
banter
circumscribe If you find it in a book youre reading for
daunt fun, you may collect 25-cent words from it.
exuberance
despot If you hear it or see it written somewhere,
whimsy you may collect it.

From your 12-25 bookmark words, you will select four Vocabulary Words of the Week:
bulwark
25
hummock From your
and 27 bookmark,
present them choose four
incandescence
proudly each of the more
28 useful words
week. These
are YOUR speculation
words! 32
benediction
34
subjugation
35

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Lets Practice
Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In
Here are the first two
the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days
paragraphs of
without a fish the boys parents had told him that the old man was
Hemingways The Old
now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky
Man and the Sea.
and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught
Find any 25-cent
three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man
come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to vocabulary words.
help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the
sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour Remember, its a 25-
sacks and, furled; it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. cent word if you
The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the need to use context
back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer clues or the
the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. dictionary to define
The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the the word youve
deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of found. You dont
these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless simply recall its
desert. meaning.

Avoid collecting
words that arent in
the dictionary; this
means they are
either foreign words
come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to or they are too old
help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the fashioned to be in
sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour the modern
sacks and, furled; it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. dictionary. Salao is
The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the an example.
back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer
Also avoid collecting
the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks.
words that are
The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the
deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of specialized words for
these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless certain trades or
desert. situations. Here are
(Click here to open a printable version of this text.) three examples.

Focus in on words
thatwhen you look
them uphave
interesting meanings
and have additional
come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to forms of the word.
help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the
sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour
sacks and, furled; it looked like the flag of permanent defeat. Chances are with one
The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the of these three words
back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer you cant tell me its
the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. meaning without re-
The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the reading the sentence
deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of or using the
these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless dictionary. Which
desert. one do you like best?

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf
without a fish the boys parents had told him that the old man was furl
now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky 3
and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught gaunt
come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to 3
help him carry either the coiled lines or the gaff and harpoon and the benevolent
sail that was furled around the mast. The sail was patched with flour 3
sacks and, furled; it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
cantankerous
The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the
back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer
Record 12-25 8
the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on hiswords
cheeks.
a week placid
The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his handsfrom
had the
what 14
deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. Butwere
nonereading.
of
boreal
these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless
desert. 17

furl
3
gaunt
3
benevolent
3
tirade
Publish 8
your four placid
best words 14
each week! boreal
17

Creating Student
Vocabulary Collectors!
A free preview from our Common Core Vocabulary
Lesson Collection
Over the summer of 2013, Dena and I finalized eleven vocabulary-based writing
lessons and activities designed to promote Common Core vocabulary skills and
deeper thinking. This PowerPoint lesson introduces our weekly routine of seeking
out and publishing new vocabulary words. You can also freely preview two of the
writing activities: Personifying Vocabulary Words & Imp-Int-Exclam Sentences.
If youre interested in ordering the entire set of 10 Common Core-inspired

Vocabulary lessons, click here, or visit our websites Teachers Pay Teachers Store to
see what we also offer reading and writing teachers.
Our teaching materials
Thanks for your interest in our work! are copyrighted. You
may not post them to
--Corbett & Dena Harrison (http://corbettharrison.com) any website.

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If youre interested in ordering the entire set of 10 Common Core-inspired

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

Selig realizes that his mission is to bestow his word

--Joy Fleischhacker, School Library Journal

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

6. E.G.O.T. 7. Root-Related 8. Showing 9. Imp-Int-Exclam 10. Sausage

1 words 5 words 10 words 25 words 50 words

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

1 words 5 words These are your little kid words.

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

10 words 25 words Ten-centers are harder words that you

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

50 words Fifty-cent words are words that only

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

25 words If youre reading a hard enough book,

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

Make yours look like

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

Like these students

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

5-cent words 10-cent words 25-cent words

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

Important: When collecting a verb, youll need

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

25 words If we read something in class together,

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

This Year You Will Collect Dozens of New Words!

If youre interested in ordering the entire set of 10 Common Core-inspired

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