Commentary from Beck & Team Which words did you select? Trying to be all-inclusive, selecting any words that might fit Tier Two, we chose comment, occurrence, tended, mention, emerging, admit, haunting, reality, and We considered them Tier Two words as we viewed them as fairly "general sinister, fortune. but sophisticated words." That is, they are not the most basic or common ways of expressing ideas, but they are familiar to mature language users as ordinary as opposed to specialized language. The concepts embodied in each word are ones that students already have some understanding of, as shown in the accompanying list. Tier Two words Students' likely expressions something someone has to say comment something happening occurrence took care of tended tell mention coming out emerging say you did something admit to scary haunting being real reality scary sinister luck fortune Now, the notion of tiers of words is not a precise one, and the lines between tiers are not so your selection may not match ours. Thinking in terms of tiers is just a starting point a — way of framing the task of choosing candidate words for instruction (see the accompanying box). Even within Tier Two, some words will be more easily familiar and some will be more useful than others. For example, our hunch is that and are likely known to most admit, reality, fortune fourth or fifth graders; that is not often used in a way that is key to understanding; and tended that fifth graders may already associate with scary things a Halloween context haunting — — which is fitting for this story. Thus we ended up with comment, occurrence, mention, emerging, and We judged the first four of these to be most useful across a range of contexts, and sinister. we chose because it is a strong word with emotional impact that is used in literature to sinister describe fictional characters as well as in nonfiction, such as when describing a group's sinister plans to invade another's territory. (*an excerpt from Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown & Linda Kucan, 2010)
Commentary from Beck & Team Which words did you select? Trying to be all-inclusive, selecting any words that might fit Tier Two, we chose comment, occurrence, tended, mention, emerging, admit, haunting, reality, sinister, and fortune. We considered them Tier Two words as we viewed them as fairly "general but sophisticated words." That is, they are not the most basic or common ways of expressing ideas, but they are familiar to mature language users as ordinary as opposed to specialized language. The concepts embodied in each word are ones that students already have some understanding of, as shown in the accompanying list. Tier Two words Students' likely expressions comment something someone has to say occurrence something happening tended took care of mention tell emerging coming out admit to say you did something haunting scary reality being real sinister scary fortune luck Now, the notion of tiers of words is not a precise one, and the lines between tiers are not so your selection may not match ours. Thinking in terms of tiers is just a starting point — a way of framing the task of choosing candidate words for instruction (see the accompanying box). Even within Tier Two, some words will be more easily familiar and some will be more useful than others. For example, our hunch is that admit, reality, and fortune are likely known to most fourth or fifth graders; that tended is not often used in a way that is key to understanding; and that fifth graders may already associate haunting with scary things — a Halloween context — which is fitting for this story. Thus we ended up with comment, occurrence, mention, emerging, and sinister. We judged the first four of these to be most useful across a range of contexts, and we chose sinister because it is a strong word with emotional impact that is used in literature to describe fictional characters as well as in nonfiction, such as when describing a group's sinister plans to invade another's territory. (*an excerpt from Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown & Linda Kucan, 2010)
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