Word Mapping Strategy (SP) Public

Strategic Instruction Model™ Learning Strategies

Earned through demonstration of competence in instructing a teacher to use the Word Mapping Strategy with students.

Required Evidence

1. Partner with Active SIM Professional Developer

Post the name of the active SIM Professional Developer who will partner with you in this process. More Info

2. Teach the Strategy with Fidelity

Teach the strategy in its entirety to a person or class, following the instructional steps in the manual (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

3. Portfolio of Implementation Showing Fidelity

Submit your portfolio of implementation (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) Credential evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

4. Supporting Observation/Video Showing Fidelity

Submit supporting Observation and/or Video (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) Credential evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

5. Student Portfolio Showing Evidence of Fidelity

Submit one student portfolio that shows complete implementation of the strategy. Be sure to remove all student identifying information. (*may link to Fidelity of Implementation (FI) Credential evidence if you've already earned this badge). More Info

6. Instruct a Teacher

Guide another instructor through the Strategy in its entirety. Help them to follow the instructional steps in the manual. Post a completed student progress chart (with student identifying information removed). More Info

7. Describe your Coaching

Submit a description of your coaching with the instructor before and after implementation. What were the successes? What were the challenges? How did the two of you problem solve issues? What Adjustments did you make? More Info

8. Describe Their Implementation

Describe implementation in the instructor's class with student(s) What were the successes? What were the challenges? How did the two of you problem solve the issues? What adjustments did you make? More Info

9. Completion Date

Post the date you completed the requirements for this micro-credential and then click on the "request feedback" button. More Info

Extra: Student Interview

Interview a student about learning and implementation of the strategy and submit video or written report on the interview. More Info

Badge Overview

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.

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To:
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  • Type in your message.
  • Choose who can contribute to the wiki.
  • Hit the "Create Page" button at the bottom of the page.
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