Best PracticesVocabulary Research

Multiple Levels of Understanding

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Verbal Association

Level

Partial Concept

Knowledge

Full ConceptKnowledge

Mediated

Incidental

Explicit

• everyday use• definitional/single contexts• wide and varied interactive reading• learn words as they appear in context

Verbal Association Level

• deeper level of understanding• knowledge of multiple meaning possibilities• explicit strategies for words integral to story’s

a meaning• graphic organizers to extend definitional knowledge

Partial Concept Knowledge

• deep level of understanding that includes knowledge of word families, multiple meaning, and ways to extend definitions to application

• ability to discriminate word from similar words• ability to extend definition to related concepts

Full Concept Knowledge

• explicit strategies for connecting and extending words

• opportunities for students to integrate word and concept in meaningful use

Full Concept Knowledge

SummarizingSummarizing has a positive effect on comprehension and recall.

(Trebasso and Bouchard, 2002)

One-Sentence Summary

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1. The students read a passage and the teacher identifies magnet words from the passage.

2. The students write each magnet word in the center of an index card.

3. Details (words/phrases) for each magnet word are written around the index card.

4. Words/phrases are combined into a summary.

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Causes

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