2min chapter

Education Research Reading Room cover image

ERRR #062. Margaret McKeown on Robust Vocabulary Instruction

Education Research Reading Room

CHAPTER

Do Different Definitions for the Same Word Mean?

One look sounds fantastic. Ol alarm. I'll be jumping onto that myself when i'm doi worn words myself. Fantastic. Another thing you mention in the book about definitions is, and i was a bit surprised by this, but providing different definitions on different days for the same word. Can you tell us why that might be useful or a good thing to do? The important point for doing that is so that kids don't memorize the definition. We want them to to put to have to put thought into how they describe what a word means. That's really interesting. Let me see if i can give you an example. So here's from our rave programme a, the word assume.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode