Education Bookcast 93. Closing the Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley
Nov 9, 2020
42:12
This is the second episode in a series on vocabulary and literacy. The first was episode 91 (Vocabulary Development).
Closing the Vocabulary Gap is a slightly longer book on vocabulary than Vocabulary Development was, and peeks into the domain of literacy more generally. In this episode, we will focus on the following questions:
- What is the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension? (Does learning vocabulary increase your reading comprehension? Or is there no direct connection - maybe smarter people just do better at both?)
- How many words do people know? And why is this question important?
- How do people learn words from context?
- How should you teach vocabulary?
The next part of the series will be focused on learning to read, which builds on knowledge from this book.
Enjoy the episode.