inadequate oral language development

lack of background knowledge or inadequate store of words

word relationships, content knowledge, figurative language

Strategies

• use Text Talk (Beck) with read aloud books
• develop word awareness
• engage students in conversations
• ask and answer questions
• word play
• choral reading
• word building

Strategies

• concept meaning
• semantic mapping
• multiple exposures to words
• use Text Talk (Beck) with read aloud books
• context clues
• word building
• word sorts
• topic related word banks
• preteach vocabulary
• picture dictionaries
• increase independent reading

Strategies

• word sorts
• antonyms, synonyms
• word arrays
• example/non-example
• word building
• prefixes, suffixes
• morphemes, roots, origins
• idioms, similes, metaphors
• cognates
• concept definition mapping for content vocabulary
• graphic organizers

Resources

• Elements of Reading-Vocabulary, K-3
• Bringing Words to Life
• Word Matters
• Words Their Way

Resources

• Elements of Reading-Vocabulary, K-3
• Bringing Words to Life
• Words, Words, Words
• In a Word
• Words Their Way
• Word Matters
• Word Journeys
• Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades
• Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension

Resources

• Elements of Reading-Vocabulary, K-3
• Bringing Words to Life
• Words, Words, Words
• In a Word
• Words Their Way
• Word Matters
• Word Journeys
• Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades
• Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension