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ERRR #062. Margaret McKeown on Robust Vocabulary Instruction

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Using a Dictionary Is a Great Way to Help Kids Understand a Word

There's a sight called one look dot com, which gives you the opportunity to look up a word in like 25 dictionaries. But another way that i think its really good to use a dictionary is beginning with a context for a word. So us been read in a story, or the teacher presents a context, and then give the kidstthe the task of looking that word up in the dictionary together. I'll include the notes in the show notes, colins learner's dictionary and longman's learner's Dictionary as well.

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