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2. Newcomer Tool Kit (PDF) - U.S. Department of Education

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   This report was produced by the National Center for English Language Acquisition (NCELA) under U.S. Department of Education (Department) Contract No. ED-ELA-12-C-0092 with Leed Management Consulting, Inc. Synergy Enterprises, Inc. and WestEd also assisted with the publication. The views

3. Effective Vocabulary Instruction Fosters Knowing Words, Using ...

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   vocabulary. Word Tiers The divide between everyday words and the language of text was the starting point for the notion of word tiers (Beck & McKeown, 1985; Beck, McKeown, & Kucan, 2002, 2013). The concept originated when colleagues challenged our recommendations for direct vocabulary instruction, McKeown: Effective Vocabulary Instruction 467

4. English Learner Tool Kit (OELA) - U.S. Department of Education

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   The English Learner Tool Kit helps state and local education agencies help English Learners (ELs) by fulfilling these obligations. The Toolkit has 10 chapters (one for each section of the DCL), and contains an overview, sample tools, and resources. New Download the entire English Learner Tool Kit (PDF, 9MB)

5. Teaching Vocabulary in the Early Childhood Classroom - ed

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   by a brief assessment. For each word, 12 children heard the new word repeated three times; another 12 children heard the word repeated six times; and so forth, for nine, 18, and 24 repetitions. Only 20 percent of the children who heard a new word three times remembered it; in fact, it wasn’t until after 24 repetitions.

6. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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   M. Word. British English meanings. Meanings common to British and American English. American English meanings. mac. raincoat (short form of Mackintosh ) ( Mac) brand of Apple Inc. computers (short form of Macintosh) ( MAC, followed or not by "address") unique 6-character hexadecimal serial number assigned to a data transmission device such as a ...

7. WWC | Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English ...

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   This guide is designed to assist teams of educators in applying the evidence-based strategies presented in the Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School educator's practice guide to help K–8 English learners acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically.

8. Vocabulary in English Language Learning, Teaching, and ... - ed

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   This review paper provides an overview of vocabulary in English language learning, teach-ing, and testing in Vietnam. The paper begins with a review of studies that evaluate Vietnamese EFL learners’ knowledge of vocabulary, followed by a discussion of contem-porary approaches to teaching vocabulary in Vietnam.

9. ERIC - ED579798 - Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary ...

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   New to this edition are: (1) Reflection on over a decade of advances in research-based vocabulary instruction; (2) Chapters on vocabulary and writing; assessment; and differentiating instruction for struggling readers and English language learners, including coverage of response to intervention (RTI); (3) Expanded discussions of content-area ...