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Moore, Wendy; Hammond, Lorraine; Fetherston, Tony – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2014
Vocabulary knowledge is an important predictor of literacy and broader academic outcomes, and children's literature is a rich source of sophisticated vocabulary. This study investigated the effect of providing instruction in word meanings as an adjunct to story-book read-aloud sessions in Grade One classrooms. The main intervention programme ran…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Semantics