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How to teach Vocabulary: Theory - Coggle Diagram
How to teach Vocabulary: Theory
Story
Squamish Nation
17 year old boy
Hockey Scholarship @ Boston U
needs to graduate
not learning disabled
different life experience
culture
not big talkers
not reading books
residential schools previous generation
Few graduates out of 40/50 kids
Nursery School
Lovely space
few books
little attention during story time
grant
1000 books from library to review
picked 300 to buy
to each facility
developed language box program
word harvest clipped into each book
taught words before reading
cardboard keys with words
given to students
2 parallel systems
mental lexicon
clear meaning of words
decoding
take time to explain what words mean
taught to ask
slur over lack of understanding
language box
start with word harvest
dot technique
language bath
different language at home or school
less exposure
CURRENCY OF KNOWLEDGE
number of words you know
ability to find meaning of words you don't know