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Download full textDimino, Joseph A.; Taylor, Mary Jo; Morris, Joan – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2015
This facilitator's guide is designed to assist professional learning communities (PLCs) in applying evidence-based strategies to help K-8 English learners acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically. Through this collaborative learning experience, educators will expand their knowledge base as they read, discuss, share,…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Dimino, Joseph A.; Taylor, Mary Jo; Morris, Joan – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2015
These handouts, which are meant to accompany the facilitator's guide, are designed to assist professional learning communities (PLCs) in applying evidence-based strategies to help K-8 English learners acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically. The facilitator's guide uses a five-step process for collaborative…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
Peer reviewedKurth, Ruth Justine – Reading Psychology, 1980
Proposes an approach to vocabulary development that stresses the integral relationships between words; describes 20 categories of meaning that can be used as a basis for developmental vocabulary lessons; and offers suggestions for the application of these meaning categories in vocabulary instruction in various subject areas. (GT)
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Semantics
Peer reviewedBergman, Jerry R. – Reading Improvement, 1977
Presents a technique designed to help most readers' vocabulary grow with their every day reading. (JM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension
Rothman, Rosalind W.; Cohen, Jill – Academic Therapy, 1989
The article offers teachers suggestions on ways to instruct elementary students in the vocabulary of mathematics. It gives examples of math difficulties at the elementary school level, math difficulties related to vocabulary, and math difficulties related to problem solving. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Problems, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
Hughes, George; Chinn, Clark – 1986
Beyond the first several thousand most commonly used words in a language, direct vocabulary instruction is not efficient. Use of inferential skills then becomes the most effective way of learning new vocabulary; it is the way native speakers build their 60,000 word vocabularies. Because the skill is not automatically transferable, it must be…
Descriptors: Classification, Context Clues, Inferences, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedSkrabanek, D. W. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1979
Notes that emphasizing word choice is important in freshman composition classes. (MKM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Descriptive Writing, Diction, Semantics
Ching, Marvin K. L. – 1983
Most freshman composition textbooks are inadequate in giving information to students on how to interpret dictionaries: instead of presenting them as aids in exploring word usage, textbooks foster a naive trust in dictionaries as arbiters of all usage questions. Rather than treating words as discrete items to be mastered without knowledge of…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Etymology, Higher Education
Peer reviewedChannel, Joanna – English Language Teaching Journal, 1981
Describes an approach to the teaching of English vocabulary which draws on several aspects of theoretical semantics; There are four sections: (1) an outline of the learner's goals and problems in acquiring vocabulary, (2) a brief description of the semantic theory involved, (3) examples of teaching material and exercises, and (4) reactions to the…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Postsecondary Education
Richterich, Rene – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
Language teachers are encouraged to find innovative ways to teach vocabulary, particularly illustrating the relationships between words and spatial and temporal relationships in meaning. The concept of the teachable moment is also discussed briefly. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, French, Learning Processes, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedAtkinson, Rhonda Holt; Longman, Debbie Guice – Journal of Reading, 1985
Sniglets, a word game popularized by comedian Rich Hall, provide teachers and students with a break from the monotony of vocabulary drill by allowing students to make words of their own, practice inferential skills in developing and identifying the meanings, and learn how words are created and made a part of language. (HOD)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Postsecondary Education, Reading Games, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedBos, Candace S.; Anders, Patricia L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
The study, involving 61 learning-disabled junior high students, compared the short-term and long-term effectiveness of definition instruction with interactive vocabulary strategies (semantic mapping, semantic feature analysis, and semantic/syntactic feature analysis). Students participating in the interactive strategies demonstrated greater…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Interaction, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Paul, Peter V. – 1987
Although knowledge of multimeaning words is important for reading comprehension, deaf readers may know only the most common meanings or nuances of high-frequency multimeaning words. Results of a study are reported in which 33 profoundly hearing impaired students stratified into three equal age groups (ages 10, 11, and 12) were administered a…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Deafness, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBurroughs, Robert S. – English Journal, 1982
Offers examples of texts and assignments that reinforce an appreciation for the importance of context in the study of vocabulary. (RL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Context Clues, English Instruction, High Schools
Peer reviewedKantrowitz, Robert – Primus, 1992
A major obstacle students encounter in their study of mathematics is the language of the discipline. The words used to convey mathematical concepts are foreign and conceal the notions that they are intended to reveal. Discusses this problem and presents suggestions to help make students sensitive to and aware of the precision required to…
Descriptors: Definitions, Higher Education, Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Vocabulary
