1. Why is vocabulary instruction needed?
• Vocabulary instruction is needed because as students progress while reading, the come upon hundreds to thousands of unfamiliar words. Despite being designated for younger readers, some books contain a lot of advanced vocabulary words. This abundance of advanced vocabulary words within a text may cause students to struggle to read, but vocabulary instruction can allow students to gain more knowledge that they can build upon, as well as provide students with strategies for figuring out words.
2. What steps would you direct students to take to apply clues to get the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence? ʺMaria knew how to find the area of a rectangle and a square, but she wasn’t sure …show more content…
Then, I would encourage the students to use contextual analysis to make sure the word is a real word that fits the context. However, if the word is unknown, I would encourage the students to use morphemic analysis and context to determine the word’s meaning. If none of the applied strategies allowed the students to understand the meaning of the word or if the students wanted to double-check their conceived meaning, I would suggest to the students to use a dictionary or glossary to either discover the meaning or check the meaning they discovered through contextual analysis.
3. What are the seven basic principles for teaching …show more content…
Still there are more techniques that can be used to teach and/or reinforce words using word-building references, predicting vocabulary words, reconstructing stories with vocabulary, using word sorts, personalizing learning with the Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS), building vocabulary using wide reading, reading to students, speaking and writing, using a thesaurus, and introducing new
• Vocabulary instruction is needed because as students progress while reading, the come upon hundreds to thousands of unfamiliar words. Despite being designated for younger readers, some books contain a lot of advanced vocabulary words. This abundance of advanced vocabulary words within a text may cause students to struggle to read, but vocabulary instruction can allow students to gain more knowledge that they can build upon, as well as provide students with strategies for figuring out words.
2. What steps would you direct students to take to apply clues to get the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence? ʺMaria knew how to find the area of a rectangle and a square, but she wasn’t sure …show more content…
Then, I would encourage the students to use contextual analysis to make sure the word is a real word that fits the context. However, if the word is unknown, I would encourage the students to use morphemic analysis and context to determine the word’s meaning. If none of the applied strategies allowed the students to understand the meaning of the word or if the students wanted to double-check their conceived meaning, I would suggest to the students to use a dictionary or glossary to either discover the meaning or check the meaning they discovered through contextual analysis.
3. What are the seven basic principles for teaching …show more content…
Still there are more techniques that can be used to teach and/or reinforce words using word-building references, predicting vocabulary words, reconstructing stories with vocabulary, using word sorts, personalizing learning with the Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS), building vocabulary using wide reading, reading to students, speaking and writing, using a thesaurus, and introducing new