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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy is a peer-reviewed journal serving those interested in the teaching of reading to adolescents and adults. Each issue offer practical, classroom-tested ideas ...

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 ...

Classroom vocabulary and print rich environments help children to develop an understanding of scientific terminology.

In this descriptive observational study we examined when, where, how often, and how effectively vocabulary instruction occurred in 23 ethnically diverse upper-elementary classrooms in 3 districts in ...