TEACHING EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN| SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015 37 words are
common words, such as buy and large. These words occur frequently in oral language and …

Purpose Many well-accepted systems for determining difficulty level exist for books children
read independently, but few are available for determining the wide range of difficulty levels …

Purpose This study was designed to assess the utility of a tool for automated analysis of rare
vocabulary use in the spoken narratives of a group of school-age children from low-income …

Words serve different purposes when we read and when we write. A reader needs to
recognize words and assign meanings to them; a writer must choose words to convey ideas …

This investigation explored the emergent knowledge of genre-specific characteristics of
twenty kindergartners and twenty first graders, who were invited to compose three types of …

Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined,
familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to …

Vocabulary learning materials and vocabulary learning research have a common objective
of promoting effective vocabulary instruction (Schmitt, 2008), but in practice vocabulary …

While most teachers acknowledge the importance of vocabulary in learning a new
language, many assume a reading class or other teacher will cover vocabulary. Yet …

Research shows that vocabulary is the best support for students' comprehension of narrative
and information texts. Often, vocabulary instruction focuses on a few target words in specific …

Laufer & Sim (1985) found that vocabulary knowledge may be the best gauge of whether or
not a text will be understood. Research indicates that for learners to be able to guess words …