About This Strategy
The Word Mapping Strategy helps older students
learn how to predict the meaning of unknown words. Students learn to
identify prefixes, suffixes, and roots and practice predicting the
meaning of words using those parts. They also learn to use four
strategic steps to identify the parts of a word, determine the meaning
of those parts, and predict the meaning of the word.
In a study involving 230 high school students enrolled in general
education English classes, students were randomly assigned to receive
instruction in the Word Mapping Strategy, to receive instruction in the LINCS Vocabulary Strategy, or to receive traditional vocabulary instruction. The study showed that students who have been taught the Word Mapping Strategy
can learn the meaning of vocabulary words when they use the strategy
and can predict the meaning of significantly more words than students
who use another similarly powerful vocabulary strategy. When researchers
measured the students' ability to predict the meaning of unknown words,
results showed significant differences between the posttest scores of
students with disabilities in the Word Mapping group and those in the LINCS
group or the traditional instruction group. Significant differences
also were found between students without disabilities in the Word Mapping group and those in the LINCS group or the traditional instruction group. Word Mapping
students earned an average of 61 percent of the points available on the
prediction test compared to an average score of 24 percent earned by LINCS students.
How to earn this micro-credential badge
Micro-credentials in the SIM series enable teachers to verify skills in delivering instruction of the SIM Learning Strategies and Content Enhancement Routines and other educational programs offered through the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. To earn the micro-credential badge:
- Click the green “join this badge” button and sign up/sign in if needed.
- Post your evidence specified in the “Required Evidence” section by clicking on the blue “Post” buttons, or you can click into the Evidence section and post from there.
- Notify your SIM Professional Developer partner when you have completed posting your evidence, that is who will give final approval and award the badge.
Technical Tips
Badge List provides a place to organize evidence of your work. You may choose to type that evidence directly into a “Required Evidence” section (as when you post the name of your professional developer or a description or narrative about your work), but much of your evidence will be stored elsewhere (longer documents, video, pdf documents, images, spreadsheets, etc.) and linked into your badge.
Video: Upload video to a cloud-hosting site like Vimeo, or YouTube using privacy settings that provide a private link to view the video, keeping it unlisted on the public website. You will then post the link to that video in the evidence section, along with any comments you wish to include.
Documents, Image files, spreadsheets, PDF files, etc: You will upload your document, image file, pdf, spreadsheet, etc. to a cloud-hosting site. You will then post the link in the evidence section, along with any comments you wish to include. We have found Google Drive to be a really simple tool for accomplishing this, but Drop Box or File Dropper or any file storage site that gives you a link to your file works.
To use Google Drive to post documents, images , spreadsheets, pdf, etc.:
- Open Google Drive
- Hit the red “New” button
- Select “File Upload” and choose the file you wish to upload
- Click on “Share”
- Get Shareable Link
- Paste the link into your evidence section along with any comments you wish to include.
Communicate with other badge earners on the Badge Wiki
Contribute to a current wiki:- Click on the "View Badge WIki" button below this Badge Overview.
- Hit "Edit" in the upper right corner.
- Type into the Page Body.
- Hit "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page.
Create a New Wiki Topic- Think of a one or two word title for your new wiki. Example: Hotel TIps.
- Go to the browser address bar above.
- Change current url by ERASING "wiki-instructions" and typing the name of your wiki:
From:
http://www.badgelist.com/sim/2015-sim-conference-participant/wiki-instructionsTo:http://www.badgelist.com/sim/2015-sim-conference-participant/hotel-tips- Use a dash between words.
- Hit "return".
- "Start" the new wiki.
- Type in your message.
- Choose who can contribute to the wiki.
- Hit the "Create Page" button at the bottom of the page.
Contact simpd@ku.edu with questions.
