VOCABULARY: AN OVERVIEW OF WORD LEARNNG
About this episode
Children learn between 3,000 and 4,000 words a year. By the end of elementary school they know approximately 25,000 and by the end of high school approximately 50,000 to 80,000 words. The question is: How do they learn all these words? Do they learn them from vocabulary worksheets? Do they learn them by looking them up and writing down the definition? Do they learn them as a result of direct instruction? how do children learn new words? Why is word learning important? What can teachers do to enhance word learning?
Get every episode summarized
Each time The Reading Instruction Show publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from The Reading Instruction Show
Quiet, Piggy: A Trumpian Response to Science of Reading Critics
The Reading Instruction Show
Recognizing Words, the Three-Cueing System, and Identifying Words
The Reading Instruction Show
How NAEP Created a Perpetual Reading Crisis
The Reading Instruction Show
Reading and the Information Processing Model: Why Penguins Continue to Mishear W...
The Reading Instruction Show