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Mark Lauterbach; Marcy Zipke – Reading Teacher, 2024
Metalinguistic Awareness is the ability to consciously reflect on and manipulate language, from the level of the phoneme, to words, to whole phrases. Research has shown that engaging in metalinguistic activities can have a positive impact on reading. This article details some of the component skills of metalinguistic awareness (in this case,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Metalinguistics, Language Skills
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Goodwin, Amanda P.; Cho, Sun-Joo; Nichols, Sally – Reading Teacher, 2016
This teaching tip identifies ways to "WIN" at vocabulary learning. Specifically, the approach conveys three morphological strategies in the mnemonic "WIN." These three strategies remind students to find smaller units of meaning within bigger words, look for those units in other words that they know, and notice the context. Each…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages), Mnemonics, Teaching Methods
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Johnston, Vickie – Reading Teacher, 2019
Dyslexia is a neurological language-based learning disability. Several legislative bills related to dyslexia have recently been introduced in the United States so dyslexia can be understood and interventions in reading instruction can be provided. Studies have shown measurable improvements in the language areas of the brain's left hemisphere after…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Instruction, Reading Teachers, Students with Disabilities
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Manyak, Patrick C.; Von Gunten, Heather; Autenrieth, David; Gillis, Carolyn; Mastre-O'Farrell, Julie; Irvine-McDermott, Elizabeth; Baumann, James F.; Blachowicz, Camille L. Z. – Reading Teacher, 2014
This article presents four practical principles that lead to enhanced word-meaning instruction in the elementary grades. The authors, a collaborative team of researchers and classroom teachers, identified and developed these principles and related instructional activities during a three-year vocabulary instruction research project. The principles…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Teachers, Research Projects
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Shanahan, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 2015
This column explains three ways that teachers can improve reading test performance. Basically, the idea is that instead of teaching students to respond to particular question types as is typical of test preparation despite the ineffectiveness of this practice, it is better to teach students to read the test passages more effectively. Three…
Descriptors: Scores, Reading Tests, Teaching Methods, Test Preparation
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Goodwin, Amanda; Lipsky, Miriam; Ahn, Soyeon – Reading Teacher, 2012
This study examines the effect of morphological instruction and synthesizes instructional methods from 30 morphological interventions into four recommended morphological instructional strategies. Results suggest children receiving morphological instruction performed significantly better on measures of literacy achievement, especially in the areas…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Spelling, Morphemes, Vocabulary Skills
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Brabham, Edna; Buskist, Connie; Henderson, Shannon Coman; Paleologos, Timon; Baugh, Nikki – Reading Teacher, 2012
Students entering school with limited vocabularies are at a disadvantage compared to classmates with robust knowledge of words and meanings. Teaching a few unrelated words at a time is insufficient for catching these students up with peers and preparing them to comprehend texts they will encounter across the grades. This article presents…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Class Activities
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Kucan, Linda – Reading Teacher, 2012
This article makes use of Perfetti's Lexical Quality Hypothesis as a perspective for thinking about vocabulary instruction in terms of semantics (meaning), phonology (pronunciation), orthography (spelling), morphology (meaningful word parts), and syntax (how words function in sentences). Examples are presented of how these aspects of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Sentences, Spelling, Phonology, Semantics
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Yopp, Ruth Helen; Yopp, Hallie Kay – Reading Teacher, 2007
In this strategy, students individually select and record 10 important words on self-adhesive notes as they read a text. Then students build a group bar graph displaying their choices, write a sentence that summarizes the content, and then respond to prompts that ask them to think about words in powerful ways. Several prompts are suggested, each…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Semantics
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Weber, Rose-Marie – Reading Teacher, 2008
Direct quotation can be a source of meaning in storybook texts for beginning readers. The author of this article sketches the linguistic complexity of direct quotation and offers instructional strategies. Three aspects of direct quotation are examined: the cluster of print features and syntactic characteristics that direct quotation involves, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Oral Reading, Semantics, Text Structure
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Greenwood, Scott C.; Flanigan, Kevin – Reading Teacher, 2007
Despite the clear and longstanding connection between meaning vocabulary and reading comprehension, programs designed to teach vocabulary have often had surprisingly little impact on overall reading ability. One possible reason for this small effect is that teaching methods may not make this vocabulary-to-comprehension connection explicit for the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Reading Ability
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Lenters, Kimberly – Reading Teacher, 2003
Notes that a strategy of cutting up printed sentences mediates the need to both keep children's work their own and develop a bank of sight words. Explains how cutting sentences apart allows students to investigate words. Proposes that using cut-up sentences provides scaffolding for those students who memorize text without focusing on it. (PM)
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Semantics
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Richek, Margaret Ann – Reading Teacher, 2005
Vocabulary is important, yet instruction in word meaning is often tedious and ineffective. This article presents motivating and time-efficient strategies for introducing and practicing the meaning vocabulary students will encounter across subject areas and texts in school. In the "Semantic Impressions" word-introduction strategy, students write a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Semantics, Student Motivation
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Reutzel, D. Ray – Reading Teacher, 1985
Suggests that integrating story maps into a reading lesson helps readers attend to details as well as to relationships between story elements before, during, and after reading. Reports findings of a study to support this belief. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
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Marzano, Robert J. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Reviews research indicating that presenting vocabulary in semantically related clusters may improve students' vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. Describes how words from elementary school textbooks were divided into semantic clusters and makes suggestions for their use. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
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