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Publication Date: 2005
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Vocabulary Instruction for the Struggling Reader
Rupley, William H.; Nichols, William Dee
Reading & Writing Quarterly, v21 n3 p239-260 Jul-Sep 2005
Children's acquisition of vocabulary is essential for gains in reading comprehension and reading development. Struggling readers often do not make gains in their reading comprehension because they have a limited reading vocabulary. Enhancing the vocabulary development and growth for children who are experiencing reading difficulties enables them to better identify key concepts in text that they read, make inferences within and between texts, and increase their abilities to comprehend. Teaching vocabulary and the incidental learning of words should not be viewed as competitive forces that create a good/bad dichotomy. Instead, it should be acknowledged that learners develop vocabularies through both approaches, and that teachers need to know when students would benefit from explicit instruction that initially teaches word meaning by application in meaningful narrative and expository text (McKeown, 1993).
Descriptors: Semantics, Reading Difficulties, Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
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