Vocabulary Instruction

readers must know what most of the words mean before they can understand what they are reading

Vocabulary is important because...

Vocabulary Instruction

Vocabulary can be developed... indirectly: when students engage daily in oral language, listen to adults read to them, and read extensively on their own. directly: when students are explicitly taught both individual words and word-learning strategies.

~Types of vocabulary~listening - the words we need to know to understand what we hearspeaking - the words we use when we speakreading - the words we need to know to understand what we readwriting - the words we use in writing

vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively

beginning readers use their oral vabulary to make sense of the words they see in print

reading vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in printoral vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or recognize in listening