Action Plan - Academic Vocabulary

Action Research
Persons Responsible: Team leaders from each grade level Kinder through fifth grade, Reading Specialist & Language Support Teachers
Plan 1. Goal is to identify academic vocabulary for building background knowledge in language arts and reading using the TEKS, KUDs, and Marzano lists, engaging in thoughtful and purposeful discussion with teachers representing grades kinder through fifth grade.
2. Each grade level will review the vocabulary on the TEKS and KUD’s and create a list of words for their grade level.
3. After all the grade level have completed this activities then as a group each grade level list will be reviewed and the team needs to be in agreement if the term needs to be included in the final list and if so in which grade should the term be mastered by the student.
4. Once the team has reviewed each list and agreed to the grade level which it should be listed under then the term needs to be identified by its source(KUD, TEKS)
5. This process will need to be repeated using the TEKS and KUDS in Spanish to identify the words in Spanish for the Bilingual classroom instruction. Consistency is important.
6. The process and the list will be presented to the staff with time set aside for discussion and understanding of the importance of identifying academic vocabulary for building background knowledge in language arts and reading.
Start date: August 2010 End Date: September 2010
Resources: NISDdistrict & campus specialists, TEKS, NISD KUD’s , Mazano’s lists, LA/Reading Curriculum & TEA website
Evaluation:
Student improvement in TAKS, CDB’s and benchmark assessments.