• Word Generation: An Overview

    "Word Generation is a supplementary curricular resource that offers a series of discussable dilemmas designed to promote students’ academic language and argumentation skills. Each of the 72 brief one-week units is focused around a social or civic dilemma designed to be of interest to young adolescents. Fifteen- to twenty-minute activities focused on the week’s dilemma take place in ELA, science, social studies, and math classes, and five target academic vocabulary words are incorporated into each of those activities. Students read, discuss, debate, and write about each weekly topic, using the newly taught vocabulary words

    Word Generation creates the opportunity for students to become familiar with current issues and persistent dilemmas, while acquiring skills prioritized in the Common Core State Standards. The program is unique in its cross-disciplinary design, giving teachers of ELA, science, social studies, and math the chance to collaborate on the shared goal of helping students use academic language to articulate their thinking.

    The original Word Generation is a novel approach to vocabulary teaching and academic language development that comprises 15-20 minute daily activities organized in a five-day cycle." (SERP)

     

    The original Word Generation program was created by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP ) in conjunction with Harvard University. All materials from the original curriculum can be found here. This Moodle course aims to merge original Word Generation content with content and materials created throughout 287 for the facilitation of this curriculum within our unique programs.



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