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=Welcome to Your New Wiki! = ===This page will be used for and by all K-12 teachers at CC-C schools to share common vocabulary lists, strategies for teaching and assessing vocabulary, and examples of student work as well as literature that supports our goal. ===

To use Curriculum Crafter, use the common login for all teachers:

 * ===**login: carsoncity-crystalAS **===
 * **password: teachers **

Once in Curriculum Crafter, hit "Reports" on the left, and then search by COURSE for the more specific list.
Reference books: //Words, Words, Words //by Janet Allen //Inside Words //by Janet Allen //Building __#|Academic__ Vocabulary: Teacher's Manual //by Robert J. Marzano //Teaching Basic and Advanced Vocabulary //by Robert J. Marzano

Reasearch shows the following to be true:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Direct vocabulary instruction improves comprehension. (Baumann, Kame'enui, and Ash 2003. )
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Knowing a word means more than knowing a definition for the word. (Scott and __#|Nagy__ 1997.)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Repeated exposure to words in meaningful contexts improves comprehension. (Nagy 1990. )