Word Stem Worksheet This worksheet guides students through at least 3 of Marzano's 6 steps of direct vocabulary instruction. Students could also create posters or build a class word wall after completing these.
Word Skills Resources Folder Word root lesson presentations with color coded stems and definitions. The color coding can really help your visual learners!
Activities
Linear Array Activity Graphic organizer that helps students engage in purposeful discussion of academic vocabulary. Students work together to decide how to sort vocabulary terms onto a continuum in an order that makes sense to them. Possibilities include order of importance, impact, connotation, etc.
Frayer Models Frayer Model Description of how to use the activity. Full page Frayer can be filled in and displayed in the classroom as part of a word wall or anchor chart activity. Differentiated Frayer Models provide varied frameworks that may be more useful depending on the words assigned. Quarter-Page Foldable lets students create foldable Frayer Models that will fit four to a page in their notebooks (photo example).
Word Map Graphic organizer from ReadWriteThink.org that helps students explore various aspects of a word.
Vocabulary Self-Assessment Tool Students rate their knowledge of vocabulary words as a metacognitive introduction to terms and formative assessment.
Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary Excerpt from Janet Allen's flipchart, available from Stenhouse Publishers, includes introduction and four of the 20 strategies from the book.
Vocabulary Development Resources The WV Dept of Education has compiled graphic organizers, teaching strategies, word play games and more. Vocabulary Workshop Teacher Corbett Harrison's vocabulary page containing many free activities and lessons along with some paid resources.