Vocabulary Development

• Main Author: Rasinski, Timothy (auth)
• Other Authors: Rupley, William (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Education; high school; vocabulary development; vocabulary activities; methods; middle grades; reading fluency; mixed-effects models; academic vocabulary; early elementary; cognates; vocabulary; concept maps; middle school; teachers; disciplinary literacy; hip-hop pedagogy; elementary classroom teachers; metalinguistic awareness; student learning; vocabulary achievement; reading theories; word features; morphology; teacher discourse moves; academic vocabulary instruction; comprehension; STEM; practitioners; content analysis; vocabulary instruction; elementary; peer effects; quantile regression; confirmatory factor analysis; student responses
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Knowledge of word meanings is critical to success in reading. A reader cannot fully understand a text in which the meaning to a significant number of words is unknown. Vocabulary knowledge has long been correlated with proficiency in reading. Yet, national surveys of student vocabulary knowledge hav...