Introduction and Chapter 1: What's the Big Deal About Vocabulary Instruction?
Guiding Questions for Discussion (from the published Study Guide)
1. What research about vocabulary teaching and learning presented new ideas to you? How do these research-based concepts relate to your students?
2. Vocabulary knowledge has consistently been correlated with school achievement. How and why do you think vocabulary achievement relates to student success?
3. The concept of building "word schema" appears throughout the book. What is your understanding of word schema? Why is it important to learning?
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Book Study: Word Nerds
This is a book study being done by teachers from Arlington Heights Elementary as a professional learning method for individual goals identified on our Individualize Professional Development Plan for the school year 2015-2016.Follow along as we journey through this text together. Reflections will be posted bi-weekly.
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