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not have multiple meanings, but students will need to know
them. A simple explanation of the word's meaning during the
story reading will be enough.
b) Some Tier 1 words are simple cognates.The cognates
in this category consist of words that are high-frequency words
in Romanian and English. They may not require substantial
instruction because students may know the word meanings in
Romanian. The teacher can merely state the English cognate
and have students provide the Romaian cognate. Or, the teacher
can provide the English cognate and students can say both the
English word and Romanian cognate.
c) It is also important to point out false cognates and
give the correct translation. There are also some false cognates
that have multiple meanings in one language, and one or some
of those meanings do not coincide with the meaning of the
other language.

Tier 2 words
Tier 2 words are high frequency words used in grade-
level texts.. Tier 2 words represent challenges to students who
primarily meet them in print, because of their lack of
redundancy in oral language. They can be worked in a variety
of ways so that English language learners build rich
representations of them and connect them to other words and
concepts.Teaching Tier 2 words must:
a) Some Tier 2 words will not need elaborate
discussion, because they can be easily taught by demonstration.
These include words with multiple meanings, such as trunk,
which can be taught by using gestures to show that it is part of
an elephant, part of a tree, part of our body, and the back of a
car.
b) In addition, many Tier 2 words are cognates. In this
tier, they are high frequency words in Romanian and low
frequency words in English. This means that Romanian-

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