Correlation Between Vocabulary and Comprehension

Taken from the article, Vocabulary is Comprehension by Laura Rob 
"Results from a 2012 study completed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—known as the Nation’s Report Card—compared vocabulary scores and reading comprehension scores and found a tight correlation between vocabulary and comprehension. Students who scored high in comprehension also scored high on vocabulary."

Use daily 10–15-minute vocabulary lessons to do the following:

Preteach words that don’t have strong context clues in the text. Make the learning active and create a sentence with each word that will enable students to figure out meaning as it’s used in the text.

Avoid teaching one word. Words are part of networks: synonyms, antonyms, concepts, families, and multiple forms of a word. For example, the word in a text is transfixed. Have students build a network of synonyms such as fascinated, marveled, enchanted, enthralled, and captivated.

Model how you use context to figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words. Then ask students to practice. Discovering the meaning of a word using context clues ensures that students will pinpoint the word’s meaning as it’s used in the text.

Help students learn figurative language. They can use it to deepen their comprehension of texts by connecting the figure of speech to a theme, big idea, conflict, and so on.

Reading Words for Lesson 12 use  VocabularyCluster.html

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Reading Words	-These words have more than one syllable. The first part is underlined.
polar bear	pebbled	killer whale	walrus
ice floe	splatter	Eskimo	kayak
Oomoo	Alaskan	spear	son
Oolak	scattered	January	restless
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