Using vocabulary strategies such as Association Triangles, Vocabulary Organizers, and Word Walls in their classrooms, Reynoldsburg teachers helped students
master key academic vocabulary and raise academic achievement.
Reading comprehension episodes help students learn to comprehend narrative, expository, and poetic text and to answer factual, inferential, main idea, and vocabulary questions about what they read, while also
learning key academic vocabulary.
The standards - aligned lessons, projects, and instructional tools establish the goals of the activity, provide background knowledge, present the learning objectives in a larger context, and
introduce key academic vocabulary to prepare students for learning.
To understand complex materials, students need support in developing
the key academic vocabulary common to those texts (ACT, 2008).