Sentences with phrase «explicitly teaching vocabulary»

The professional development package improved the quality of the teachers» use of evidence - based vocabulary practices and increased the amount of time they spent explicitly teaching vocabulary in their classes.

This vocabulary development program explicitly teaches vocabulary in context with high - quality science, social studies, and literary texts.

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Written at a lower KS2 level, the text includes key underlined items of ambitious vocabulary that are likely to be unfamiliar to children (we teach these explicitly before introducing the text).

If teachers concentrate instruction only on vocabulary terms specific to their disciplines, then the more general words may not be explicitly taught.

Under the shift to Common Core standards, reading programs are explicitly expected to teach strong foundational skills, including phonics in the early grades, while building background knowledge and vocabulary, which are especially important for low - income children most at risk of reading failure.

«Since the project started in 2015, all teachers Prep - Year 10 have been trained in the STRIVE process and are using our placement to explicitly teach contextualised vocabulary [teaching Tier 2 curriculum and content words] to ensure all students can successfully engage with the curriculum.

Once students are explicitly and intentionally taught vocabulary words, they can then play interactive games with the words.

Learning words: In the communicative approach to language learning, vocabulary is often not taught explicitly.

Examples include using activities and strategies to enhance comprehension of science information (e.g., interactive questioning on expository text); focusing on language functions (e.g., describing, explaining, reporting, drawing conclusions in the context of science inquiry); explicitly teaching and reinforcing key vocabulary; and strategically using students» first language to enhance their understanding.

Results show that students, all of whom were English language learners in this particular study, performed significantly better on the posttest with vocabulary that they had been explicitly taught using intervention methods than on vocabulary they were exposed to, but not explicitly taught.

Instead, a small group of vocabulary words should be introduced or explicitly taught for several minutes at the beginning of a class (first exposure) and then revisited, 25 - 90 minutes later, at the end of class (second exposure).