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2. Moving Forward Four Words at a Time: Effects of a ... - ed

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   Previous studies have provided evidence of efficacy. In this study, we evaluated the effects of the program after doubling the number of words taught from 2 to 4 words per book. Method: Seventeen preschool children listened to 1 prerecorded book per week for 9 weeks. Each storybook had embedded, interactive lessons for 4 target vocabulary words.

3. Key Words Reading Scheme - Wikipedia

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   The Key Words Reading Scheme is a series of 36 English language early readers children's books, published by the British publishing company, Ladybird Books. The series are also often referred to as Peter and Jane, the names of the main characters. Peter and Jane Book 1a Play with Us. Peter and Jane Book 1a Play with Us, ISBN 1-84422-360-4.

4. Put Reading First -- K-3 (vocabulary) - ed

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   In general, vocabulary can be described as oral vocabulary or reading vocabulary. Oral vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or recognize in listening. Reading vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in print. Vocabulary plays an important part in learning to read. As beginning readers, children use the words they have heard ...

5. Foundations in Emergent Literacy Instruction: Vocabulary

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   Language represents knowledge. Children must learn the meanings of many words to use language efectively. • Vocabulary is important for later reading comprehension; for decoding (recognizing words in print) and language comprehension (ability to understand the words we read). • Vocabulary knowledge leads to more vocabulary knowledge.

6. Learning Vocabulary From Educational Media: The Role of ...

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   media that are designed to orient children to specific vocabulary words. In over the 2,000 scenes coded, we identified two overriding categories of supports: ostensive cues, designed to provide definitional information to children; and attention-directing cues, designed to signal children’s attention to a target word.

7. Vocabulary in educational media for preschoolers: a content ...

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   effects) that assist children’s attention towards targeted content in children’s television. Rice examined a 6.5 minute segment from six programs for three to five-year-olds. Rice found much of the media dialogue matches the language typically used in daily interactions with children. Although Rice’s work addresses language in children’s

8. The Magic of Words: Teaching Vocabulary in the Early ...

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   Children must know the words that make up written texts in order to understand them, especially as the vocabulary demands of content-related materials increase in the upper grades. Studies have documented that the size of a person's vocabulary is strongly related to how well that person understands what he or she reads, not only in the primary ...

9. ERIC - ED137764 - The Living Word Vocabulary, the Words We ...

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   This word list includes more than 43,000 items, each identified by a simple word meaning. For each item, the list provides a grade level (4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, or 16) and a percentage score that indicates what percentage of students at that grade level understand the word.