Teaching vocabulary strategies is another component of my vocabulary instruction. In whole and small groups, I explicitly model what I do when I am reading and come across an unfamiliar word.

Focus on Vocabulary Intensifies. Educators Split on Whether Workbooks Work and Lists Lift Students' Word Knowledge. September 10, 2001. By Valerie Strauss.

Experts say the key to teaching vocabulary is creating an environment rich in words, at school and home, where definitions of words are discussed in the context of their use.

This three-part series will be sharing a wide-range of instructional strategies to help our students acquire the vocabulary necessary to become successful in school and in life. We'll start off ...

WASHINGTON — English teacher Corinne Oliverio takes vocabulary seriously. Her students at James Madison High School in suburban Vienna, Va., get a workbook containing 300 words and exercises to ...

Particularly, teaching vocabulary is an area that has not incorporated much digital technology. Even though the technology is readily available to be used, this has not happened yet. Digital Tools ...

Low-stakes pop vocabulary quizzes promote better reading and comprehension, Elizabeth Stice writes. When it comes to university teaching, we may have reached the point that the old-fashioned thing is ...

In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher. After seven years in the classroom teaching middle and high school students, I transitioned into instructional technology, where I ...

In the September Student Lawyer, Bryan Garner reminds law students of the importance of a good vocabulary. He cites University of Virginia professor emeritus E.D. Hirsch, Jr., whose review of the ...

But Hackman also has another responsibility in class: developing students’ reading skills. For about 20 of the 80 minutes of almost every class, she engages her chemistry students in literacy skills, ...