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Module 1057

Vocabulary Instruction in the Classroom: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension

Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $225 complete

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What You'll Learn

"Learning, as a language-based activity, is fundamentally and profoundly dependent on vocabulary knowledge." ~ Baker, Simmons, & Kame’enui


Consequently, deliberate vocabulary development is an essential component of reading comprehension instruction. It contributes to students' phonemic awareness, ability to accurately decode unfamiliar words and their overall fluency. This module offers you the latest teaching strategies, techniques and examples for improving and expanding your students' vocabulary. You'll learn:

  • How students acquire and develop their vocabularies
  • 4 components of a comprehensive vocabulary program
  • Research-based strategies and activities that develop students' vocabulary
  • Keys to overcome the vocabulary catch-22 roadblock
  • Effective interventions for students who struggle with vocabulary

Highlights

Easy-to-Implement Strategies for Vocabulary Instruction

  • Successfully implement the 2 major types of vocabulary instruction
  • 4 proven ways to teach vocabulary with text
  • How to foster wide reading to build vocabulary
  • 3 ways to choose specific words to be taught
  • How to apply the three word tiers
  • Learn a read-aloud approach to enhance vocabulary

Research and Best Practices for Vocabulary Development

  • Listening vs. reading: Discover the vocabulary development cycle of students
  • Understand the 4 ways students learn words
  • How to expand the vocabularies of all your students
  • Overcome 4 major problems to vocabulary development
  • Books that support vocabulary growth and interests

Critical Vocabulary Instruction Questions Answered

  • Why vocabulary knowledge is the key that unlocks all learning
  • Why teachers need to move away from the "look it up in the dictionary" approach to vocabulary instruction
  • Why reading to students so important to vocabulary learning
  • Why vocabulary instruction in kindergarten and first grade is vital to success in upper grades

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

  • Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
  • Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
  • Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
  • Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
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Materials & Assessment

Lectures Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Vocabulary Instruction in the Classroom: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension

Tuition: $225
Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org