Effective Academic Vocabulary Instruction in the Urban Middle School

To ensure that students enter high school able to handle sophisticated texts, academic vocabulary instruction should be incorporated into standard practice to improve language skills and consequently boost reading comprehension for struggling readers.

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Published in:The Reading teacher 2010-09, Vol.64 (1), p.5-14
Main Authors: Kelley, Joan G., Lesaux, Nonie K., Kieffer, Michael J., Faller, S. Elisabeth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Academic Language
Academic learning
Classroom Techniques
Company business management
Competence and performance (Linguistics)
Curricula
Curriculum Development
Direct Instruction
discussion
early adolescence
Educational Strategies
Grade 4
Grade 6
Heritage language education
informational text
Instructional Development
Instructional Effectiveness
intervention
Language instruction
language learners
Language Minorities
Language Skills
Learner Engagement
Learning
Learning Strategies
Linguistics
Management
Methods
Middle Schools
oral language
Pedagogy
Primary Education
Reading Comprehension
Reading Instruction
Reading Skills
School districts
Single sex education
strategies
struggling
Students
Study and teaching
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Urban Schools
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary instruction
Vocabulary skills
Word meaning
Words
Writing instruction
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Summary:To ensure that students enter high school able to handle sophisticated texts, academic vocabulary instruction should be incorporated into standard practice to improve language skills and consequently boost reading comprehension for struggling readers.
ISSN:0034-0561
1936-2714
DOI:10.1598/RT.64.1.1