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Best Practices Vocabulary Research

Multiple Levels of Understanding B Mediated Incidental Explicit Verbal Association Level Partial Concept Knowledge Full Concept Knowledge

Verbal Association Level • everyday use • definitional/single contexts • wide and varied interactive reading • learn words as they appear in context

Partial Concept Knowledge • deeper level of understanding • knowledge of multiple meaning possibilities • explicit strategies for words integral to story’s a meaning • graphic organizers to extend definitional knowledge

Full Concept Knowledge • deep level of understanding that includes knowledge of word families, multiple meaning, and ways to extend definitions to application • ability to discriminate word from similar words • ability to extend definition to related concepts

Full Concept Knowledge • explicit strategies for connecting and extending words • opportunities for students to integrate word and concept in meaningful use

Summarizing Summarizing has a positive effect on comprehension and recall. (Trebasso and Bouchard, 2002) One-Sentence Summary Magnet Summaries

Magnet Summaries

Magnet Summaries • The students read a passage and the teacher identifies magnet words from the passage. • The students write each magnet word in the center of an index card. • Details (words/phrases) for each magnet word are written around the index card. • Words/phrases are combined into a summary.

Magnet Summaries Causes

Magnet Summaries North

Magnet Summaries South

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