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Direct linkMarzano, Robert J. – Voices from the Middle, 2012
Marzano offers a brief review of research in vocabulary instruction, focusing on the concept of "tiers" to describe words used with different contexts and purposes. He then suggests teaching tools that may work to help specific student populations learn and retain those words across the K-12 curriculum.
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Vocabulary, Elementary Secondary Education, Vocabulary Development
Download full textMarzano, Robert J.; And Others – 1991
Basic words have been defined as those from which other words can be derived semantically. The assumption underlying the instructional utility of a list of basic words is that a knowledge of them would provide a key to the understanding of a much larger set of related words. Although it has been shown that there are far too many basic words in the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Marzano, Robert J.; Marzano, Jana S. – 1989
A study was conducted to answer the question, "What are the basic words in a list of words kindergarten through sixth grade students will frequently encounter in their reading?" The study was limited to the words the students would encounter in their textbooks (including basals). A corpus of 7,230 words was then analyzed by two raters to…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education, Reading Research, Reading Strategies
Peer reviewedMarzano, Robert J.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1978
In this study the Graded Word List proved to be a poor indicator of fourth through eighth grade students' scores on an informal reading inventory. (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Predictive Measurement, Reading Level
Marzano, Robert J.; Marzano, Jana S. – 1988
Intended for elementary school teachers, researchers, and materials developers, this book presents a cluster approach to vocabulary instruction, in which words are taught in semantically related groups. Over 7,000 words from elementary school textbooks have been organized into 61 instructional clusters, each containing two levels of subclusters…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
Marzano, Robert J.; Pickering, Debra J. – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005
This manual is intended to assist teachers in implementing a comprehensive approach to teaching academic vocabulary at the classroom, school, and district levels. Using the manual's list of 7,923 terms, school and district teams can choose the most important vocabulary terms they want to teach to all students. All vocabulary terms are extracted…
Descriptors: National Standards, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Word Lists
Marzano, Robert J. – 1983
Vocabulary development, operationally defined as the isomorphism between an individual's store of concepts and the labels society uses to represent those concepts, is akin to concept development. Therefore, vocabulary development can be facilitated if presented in clusters of related concepts. One approach used to reinforce such basic concept…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary Education, Language Arts
