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How to Read a Textbook | Reading
and Interpreting Diverse Materials
When students do not understand an author's vocabulary, they cannot
fully understand the text. Good vocabulary instruction emphasizes
useful words (words that students see frequently), important words
(key words that help students understand the text), and difficult
words (idiomatic words, words with more than one meaning, etc.).
In providing vocabulary instruction teachers can help students by:
- Activating
their prior knowledge
- Defining
words in multiple contexts
- Helping
them see context clues
- Helping
them understand the structure of words, e.g., prefixes, roots,
and suffixes
- Teaching
them how to use a dictionary and showing them the range of information
it provides
- Encouraging
deep processing. Students need to integrate new words into their
working vocabularies.
- Giving
them multiple exposures
- Focusing
on a small number of important words. Ideally, the words should
be related so that the depth of concept development can be increased.
Sites
That Matter
If
you want to learn more about teaching vocabulary in the content
areas, choose from the links below.
General
Information on Content Reading Vocabulary
Strategies
Related to Vocabulary
This site includes a number of strategies related to learning vocabulary,
such as a general approach to unfamiliar vocabulary words, predictions
based on the context, word elements, and do's and don'ts of teaching
vocabulary (Scroll down for vocabulary section).
www.englishcompanion.com/room82/readexpository.html
Vocabulary
teaching methods: International Reading Association National Panel
Reading Report
This is a report from the International Reading Association on the
latest findings in best strategies for teaching vocabulary. Some
of strategies included are: practicing to increase capacity, association,
keyword method, pre-teaching of vocabulary, and context method (See Chapter 4, which begins on page 12).
www.reading.org/downloads/resources/nrp_summary.pdf
Teaching
Vocabulary to Adolescents to Improve Comprehension
This is an overview article on one approach to teaching vocabulary
that includes focusing on vocabulary learning, moving from isolation
to context, and selecting words for instruction.
www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?
HREF=/articles/curtis/index.html
THE
PRACTICE: Vocabulary Development
This site provides an overview of vocabulary development in content
areas. It includes links to other sites.
knowledgeloom.org/practice_basedoc.jsp?
t=1&bpid=1207&aspect
=1&location=2&parentid=1197&bpinterid=1197
&spotlightid=1174&testflag=yes
The
Clarifying Routine: Elaborating Vocabulary Instruction
This is a research-based article on strategies useful for teaching
vocabulary. It includes teaching new terms in the context of a meaningful
subject matter lesson, guidelines for selecting vocabulary to be
learned, facilitating paraphrasing of the definitions of new terms,
making background knowledge connections to the new terms, identifying
examples/applications as well as non-examples/non-applications,
and creating multiple formats that students can use to elaborate
on the meaning of new terms.
www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/
teaching_techniques/ellis_clarifying.html
Lesson
Plans on Content Reading Vocabulary
Secondary
Content Teacher Reading Strategies
This section contains a number of vocabulary lessons and activities,
including decoding multi-syllabic words, prefixes/suffixes, content
area vocabulary, feature analysis map, using context clues, and
unknown words in context.
www.ops.org/reading/secondarystrat1.htm
Reading
in the Content Areas: Study Guides and Vocabulary Activities
This page includes activities for teaching vocabulary in content
areas, such as identifying key vocabulary and concepts in the reading
selection, List-Group-Label, creating "Possible Sentences,"
and identifying the pattern of exposition.
coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/Pages/ContentStudyGds.htm
Just
Read Now: Vocabulary Strategies
This page includes 12 different vocabulary strategies for the middle
school.
www.justreadnow.com/strategies/vocabulary.htm
Vocabulary
Builders Page
This page provides worksheets and activities for developing content
area vocabulary. It includes a think-aloud strategy, context clues,
compound words, prefixes, suffixes, etc.
www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/
elementary/palmasola/vocabbuild2.htm
Teaching
Vocabulary in the Content Areas
This page contains specific tips for teaching content reading vocabulary
words, prefixes, suffixes, etc.
www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/%7Eelc/readingacross2.html
Tools
for Teaching Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Word Maps
This is a download of a visualizing map for teaching vocabulary.
curry.edschool.virginia.edu/
go/readquest/strat/wordmap.html
Visual
Thesaurus
This virtual thesaurus includes an interactive map showing the meaning
of your word.
www.visualthesaurus.com/desktop/index.jsp
Voycabulary
VoyCabulary™ makes the words on any web page into links so
that you can look them up with just a click!
www.voycabulary.com/
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