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Module Title: “Content Area Literacy: Vocabulary Word Maps”

Module Developers: Katherine Misulis, Associate Professor of Reading, East Carolina University
Susan Thomson, Former Reading Enrichment Teacher, Pitt County Schools

Master Teacher Instructor: Mike Flinchbaugh, English Teacher, Pitt County Schools

Module Overview: Participants investigate a variety of instructional strategies that help students build meaningful understandings about content-related vocabulary words. Participants focus upon the vocabulary word map strategy and are required to implement this strategy with a small group of students.

Technology requirements include the ability to send and receive email with and without attachments, use a word processing program such as Microsoft Word, and access and navigate the Internet.

Participant Review of this Module:
Providing a reflection log with specific comments was not time consuming but extremely beneficial to me to monitor daily progress of my students. Actually the students enjoyed keeping their own logs. This module was about vocabulary development and the connection between knowledge and comprehension. We read a story, defined it by synonym, antonym, ways/places/and situations that we heard the word used, then created a memory sentence and drew a mind picture. My students were middle school age 6-8 with behavior disorders. They were so engaged daily that disruptive behaviors were few and far between. The instructor threw a new twist on "word maps" and we all benefited. The students did their very best because they knew I was submitting their "words maps" to East Carolina University.

Joy Hewett
Exceptional Children’s Teacher
Sand Ridge Elementary School
Jacksonville, NC