Vocabulary for Tier 3 Interventions

 

1. Why do you want to focus on this area for your ICDP?

I often find students skipping words that most other students their age would know simply because they don’t know them or have never learned them. In some instances, it impedes their ability to understand a passage.

2. What are you wanting to change about your practice and how will that impact student learning?

I am wanting students to start identifying words in their reading that they don’t know, instead of me finding 3rd Tier or High Frequency words they miss while reading out loud or for probes. I would like students to continue this practice of searching out a word’s meaning as they come across words that they do not know.

3. What school/class data shows this is an area of concern for you?

IEP Comprehension data, Teacher observations as students are reading fluency probes.

4. What do you see as your topic for research?

Teaching students’ vocabulary.

5. How will this topic enhance and support student learning?

If students start becoming self-motivated to figure out words they come across that they don’t know, maybe this can transfer to other subjects.

6. Where will you look for resources on this topic?

The internet.

7. How will you know you improved in this area? What evidence will you have?

When students begin to recognize there are words they come across every day that they don’t know and that they can begin to take responsibility and look for the meaning to make sense of what they are reading now and in the future. Also improvement should be evidenced in students reading probes, both comprehension and fluency.