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Looking at Vocabulary
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Summing up Vocabulary
- Vocabulary is important because
- readers use their oral vocabulary to make sense of the words they see in print.
- readers must know what most of the words mean before they can understand what they are reading.
- Vocabulary can be developed
- indirectly, when students engage daily in oral language, listen to adults read to them, and read extensively on their own.
- directly, when students are explicitly taught both individual words and word-learning strategies.
Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read, 2001
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