1. Julia Smith READ 3262 Fall 2011
  2. Research on Vocabulary
    1. Vocabulary knowledge is one of the best predictors of reading comprehension and the ability to make inferences
    2. Factors that affect vocabulary is the economic conditions in the home, the amount of reading they do
    3. Vocabulary knowledge is a critical factor in the school success of English Language Learners
    4. The impact if readers' vocabularies is most clear in the comprehension of academic content; English Language Learners usually do well because they engage in more academic topics
    5. Includes Basic Interpersonal Communication (BIC) and Cognitive Academic-Langauge (CAL) proficiency
  3. Strategies for Word Learning
    1. The goal is when students encounter unknown words, they can examine the context for general clues, look at the structure and morphology of the word itself (the internal context) for clues, or consult a reference, if needed.
    2. Teachers need to help develop their awareness of learning new words, and exploring strategies for attending to words and rehearsing them.
    3. Teachers need to guide students to understand that word learning is an ongoing and cumulative process.
    4. Semantic feature analysis is an activity that helps illustrate semantic relationships among words. It provides a graphic display that focuses on the feature that distinguishes words in a particular category from another
    5. Having students create visual diagrams or pictures targeted to terms
  4. Online Sources to Build Vocabulary
    1. Dictionaries
    2. www.eduplace.com/kids/hmsv/
    3. www.wordsmith.org
    4. www.vocabulary.com
    5. www.funbrain.com/words
  5. Repeated Reading in Performance
    1. mostly used with fictional works, where readers decide character traits, what's at stake, and how reading should sound
      1. combines fluency, meaning, drama, and rhetoric as students practice reading texts aloud, using their voices to convey meaning of the text
        1. Readers' theatre
    2. By whole chorus, individuals, pairs. In loud or soft voices, rapidly or slowly, melodiously, angrily, giggling, or seriously
      1. for fluency; reading to get the right sounds to convey meaning and emotions
        1. Choral reading
  6. Fluency for Reading
    1. Scheduled
      1. Sustained silent reading
    2. Directed activities, such as repeated reading
    3. Artistic means, such as readers' theater and choral reading with voice choirs