What Instructional Approaches Facilitate and Support Vocabulary Development

What Instructional Approaches Facilitate and Support Vocabulary Development
By Susan O'Hara|Robert Pritchard
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Once you have determined what words to teach, you need to decide how to teach them. In other words, you need to identify and implement instructional approaches that are most likely to result in students’ taking ownership of the target words and their underlying concepts. We believe the most effective way to accomplish this goal is to utilize approaches that are consistent with the following guidelines:

  • Relate the new to the known
  • Promote active, in-depth processing
  • Create a language- and word-rich environment
  • Support independent word learning
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