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ERRR #062. Margaret McKeown on Robust Vocabulary Instruction

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What's the Difference Between a Hermit and an Invited Guest?

We created an assessment based on that kind of thinking for kids when we were working back in our fourth grade vocabulary programme. We would give them the sentence about ronda, and then we would say, what do you think charles's answer was to the invitation? And what we found was that the kids that we had instructed with robust instruction would say, he's not going to want to go. So it's an assessment technique that we've, we've used, and we think is pretty revealing,. because it really does show whether the student has learned that word in a ritten way that they can actually apply it to a context.

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