Slide 1FOREWORD 24 students in a fifth form (16 years) were interviewed about their difficulty not only to read a text in English, but also to understand it. To the question…

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Slide 1 Closing the Vocabulary Gap: Vocabulary Building Strategies in Action Presented by: Sandi Yellenberg Science Coordinator Santa Clara County Office of Education [email protected]…

Secondary Literacy 2: Teaching Vocabulary Please access handouts: CMIM  Week 3 Handouts  Literacy Handouts  SEC.Teach.Vocab.Handouts * Do Now – Vocabulary Gap…

Slide 1 Closing the Vocabulary Gap: Vocabulary Building Strategies in Action Presented by: Sandi Yellenberg Science Coordinator Santa Clara County Office of Education [email protected]…

Assumptions cause Confusion * Why the vocabulary gap? Children enter school with different levels of vocabulary. (Hart & Risley, 1995) Cumulative Vocabulary (Age 4) Children…

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