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Bolstering Vocabulary with Teacher Talk in the Classroom

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How to Introduce Word Families to Kindergarteners

Kindergarteners can learn those kinds of words and connect them to actions or different kind of sentences that they already know. The strategy that we introduce in our book is having the teacher model root words that use many different prefixes and suffixes. So if I will take the example that Kristen used with let's congregate on the carpet. And then as students begin moving to the carpet in that moment I could say oh I see you are congregating.

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