Think about all the ways you promote content vocabulary in your classroom. Got that bulletin board? Got that word wall? Got a few posters with pictures and words around your classroom? Do students ...

Teaching vocabulary strategies is another component of my vocabulary instruction. In whole and small groups, I explicitly model what I do when I am reading and come across an unfamiliar word.

Science makes morphology easier because so many words share roots. Think about the prefix de, which means “remove” or ...

There are effective techniques for teaching vocabulary, but it's impossible to explicitly teach all the words kids need to become proficient readers. Vocabulary is key to reading comprehension ...

The Reading Teacher is a peer-reviewed journal serving teachers and literacy professionals interested in the teaching of reading to children in the elementary classroom. The journal offers teaching ...

The authors develop the concept of teaching vocabulary for application (TVA) as a component of comprehensive vocabulary instruction. TVA is instruction that focuses on students’ skillful application ...

Particularly, teaching vocabulary is an area that has not incorporated much digital technology. Even though the technology is readily available to be used, this has not happened yet.

For the purposes of teaching vocabulary, a “domain” could be defined as a sphere of knowledge in which concepts and words are repeated over the course of two or three weeks. Such repetition happens ...

The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) approved an innovative curriculum to be implemented in 60 Pre-K classrooms across ...

Teaching students the meaning of unfamiliar words in a particular text can help them understand that text, notes Cervetti. But “the jury is still out on vocabulary instruction to increase ...