Vocabulary Learning Strategies for Adolescents
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A 2019 Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools forum, Vocabulary
Across the School Grades, presented evidence that strong vocabulary is
important for students’ literacy and overall academic success across grade
levels. The articles in this journal self-study course describe effective instructional
strategies for facilitating vocabulary growth and improving reading
comprehension in middle and high school students. The authors present recommendations
and implications for practice.
Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:
- identify key elements for choosing words for vocabulary
instruction
- describe research-based vocabulary instructional practices
found to be effective with middle school and adolescent students
- discuss the relationship between vocabulary and reading
comprehension
Learning Assessment
Multiple-choice exam
Articles in This
Course
- Effective Vocabulary Instruction Fosters Knowing Words, Using Words, and
Understanding How Words Work, by Margaret G. McKeown, published in Language,
Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
- The Effect of Vocabulary Intervention on Text Comprehension: Who Benefits?
by Dawna Duff, published in Language,
Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
- Accelerating Adolescent Vocabulary Growth: Development of an Individualized,
Web-Based, Vocabulary Instruction Program, by Suzanne M. Adlof, Lauren S. Baron,
Joanna Scoggins, Adam Kapelner, Margaret G. McKeown, Charles A. Perfetti, Elaine
Miller, Jeanine Soterwood, and Yaacov Petscher, published in Language,
Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
- Key Elements of Robust Vocabulary Instruction for Emergent Bilingual
Adolescents, by Amy C. Crosson, Margaret G. McKeown, Kelly P. Robbins, and
Kathleen J. Brown, published in Language,
Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
- A Review of Middle School Vocabulary Interventions: Five Research-Based
Recommendations for Practice, by Amy M. Elleman, Eric L. Oslund, Natalie M. Griffin,
and Katie E. Myers, published in Language,
Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
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