Word Consciousness - ANSWER Awareness of words and their meanings as well as interest in their usage. Conversational vocabulary (Tier 1) - ANSWER Informal language: most basic, everyday speech that is familiar to students Academic Vocabulary (Tier 2) - ANSWER Formal language: high frequency words that are found in many different subject discipline (Ex. examine, identify, authority) Content Specific Vocabulary (Tier 3) - ANSWER Subject specific vocabulary: found in science, math, social studies (ex. hypothesis, photosynthesis) Systematic Explicit Instruction - ANSWER High structure and sequenced instruction Needs to be very interactive Matthew Effect - ANSWER "Rich get richer and the poor get poorer" The gap between strong and weak readers will only widen when no one is catching any literacy difficulties and students are not receiving proper instruction 3 types of vocabulary practice - ANSWER deliberate, spaced, and retrieval - goes well with "I do, we do, you do", modeling and instruction