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ERRR #062. Margaret McKeown on Robust Vocabulary Instruction

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Teaching Off a List - Is There a Specific Order?

The academic word list is presented in a number of ways. Start with the most frequent and work your way up from there. It's easier to start with texts that kids are alrady reading, because then you've got a context already. Andyou dont even bring in other words that might seem like they relate to that story or could be used to describe the characters in that story. So it seemed to me that a more duable approach would be to take whatever youe nt be reading and in class, look for some words in the text that seem like ter two words," he says.

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