Vocabulary Development
Course Agenda
Day 1
- Vocabulary and Learning to Read
- Defining “Vocabulary”
- Size of Young Readers’ Listening and Reading Vocabularies
- How Do Children Learn the Words they Know?
- Shallow and Deep Word Knowledge
- Homework Assignment
Day 2
- Structure of Definitions
- Teaching Vocabulary
- Deciding Which Words to Teach
- Effective Instruction:
- Multiple Examples
- Relationships
- Pronunciation
- Multiple Meanings and Uses
- Idioms, Metaphors, and Colloquial Uses of Language
- Use of Graphic Organizers
- Debriefing of Homework
