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ERRR #062. Margaret McKeown on Robust Vocabulary Instruction

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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.

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