The goal of this document is to provide the information that teachers and other colleagues in the school need to implement an integrated and comprehensive approach to vocabulary instruction. By integrated, it is meant that vocabulary is a core consideration in all grades across the school and in all content areas across the school day. By…

The improvement of college students' reading rate and comprehension is a major educational concern. Many students arrive at college unprepared for the massive amount of required reading. This study presents several attempts to improve vocabulary, reading rate, and comprehension and addresses tangential issues related to the improvement of reading…

After reviewing the literature, this paper seeks to show the importance and significance of direct vocabulary instruction on students' critical literacy skills; specifically, reading comprehension. Although some may suggest that the greatest amount of vocabulary growth occurs through incidental word learning in wide reading, research indicates…

This book provides a research-based framework and practical strategies for vocabulary development with children from the earliest grades through high school. It emphasizes instruction that offers rich information about words and their uses and enhances students' language comprehension and production. The book guides teachers in selecting words for…

Suggests that word bridges--across which meaning is communicated--become more intricate both as the individual's language develops and as the world around him changes and grows. (TO)

Suggests several variations of a game designed to enhance students' active and passive vocabularies. (TO)

Discusses what vocabulary development is all about, not how to develop vocabulary. (TO)

Suggests several ways to encourage students' awareness and use in writing of the variant meanings of words. (TO)

Presents examples of classroom activities designed to improve reading through improved vocabulary. (RB)

Educational Leadership/Research Supplement, v3, n2, December 1969. Measurement of responses to a vocabulary scale suggests that usual verbal classroom presentations may be beyond the grasp of some pupils due to their level of conceptual ability. (AP/Author)

Two methods for capturing the letter naming skills of kindergarteners were compared in power to predict Gates-McGinitie vocabulary and comprehension one year later. Both methods turned out essentially the same correlation coefficients. (Author)

The author reviews a selection of books that can be used to enrich a child's language in order to influence his acquisition of reading and writing skills. (CD)