Tanya S. Wright and Susan B. Neuman, «Paucity and Disparity in
Kindergarten Oral Vocabulary Instruction,» Journal of Literacy Research (forthcoming).
Since then, we have turned our attention to
kindergarten and first - grade materials, focusing on the four most commonly used core curricula, to examine the breadth and depth of
oral vocabulary instruction — the pedagogical features of instruction and how these features might align with research - based evidence on
vocabulary development.