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Peer reviewedJitendra, Asha K.; Edwards, Lana L.; Sacks, Gabriell; Jacobson, Lisa A. – Exceptional Children, 2004
This article summarizes published research on vocabulary instruction involving students with learning disabilities. Nineteen vocabulary studies that comprised 27 investigations were located. Study interventions gleaned from the review included keyword or mnemonic approaches, cognitive strategy instruction (e.g., semantic features analysis), direct…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Teaching Methods, Semantics, Information Retrieval
Direct linkCarlo, Mara S.; August, Diane; McLaughlin, Barry; Snow, Catherine E.; Dressler, Cheryl; Lippman, David N.; Lively, Teresa J.; White, Claire E. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2004
Gaps in reading performance between Anglo and Latino children are associated with gaps in vocabulary knowledge. An intervention was designed to enhance fifth graders' academic vocabulary. The meanings of academically useful words were taught together with strategies for using information from context, from morphology, from knowledge about multiple…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Grade 5, Syntax, Semantics
Download full textAtkinson, Rhonda; And Others – 1993
Developed by the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, this fifth-grade level module teaches different kinds of vocabulary words encountered in work-related texts used by pipefitter trainees. The module covers the following topics: differences between general, specialized, and technical words; learning new words; drills for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Building Trades, Definitions, Dictionaries
Atkinson, Rhonda; And Others – 1993
Developed by the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, this fifth-grade level module teaches word attack skills for technical terms used by pipefitters, using word parts and root words. Basic information on structural analysis covers roots, prefixes and suffixes, its limitations, and defining words using structural analysis.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Building Trades, Definitions, Plumbing
Atkinson, Rhonda; And Others – 1993
Developed by the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, this fifth-grade level module teaches strategies for finding the meanings of compound words used in technical writing encountered by pipefitters. It also addresses working with words in context and finding definitions with a dictionary. Four exercises are provided. (YLB)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Building Trades, Context Clues, Definitions
Atkinson, Rhonda; And Others – 1993
Developed by the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, these seven workbooks are designed to enhance the basic skills of pipefitters. Reading and Solving Basic Pipefitting Problems #1 defines and uses eight basic terms pipefitters need to know, reviews steps a pipefitter must take to identify and solve a simple pipefitting…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Building Trades, Definitions
