I will list the five strategies the authors identified, but I will share the research I found that will help us apply this to a therapeutic context. One caveat: The authors presented these strategies to teachers. The authors “identified 34 rigorous experimental studies (published between 19) of book-reading interventions that directly raised children’s vocabulary and determined what strategies (or, in many cases, combinations of strategies) explained children’s vocabulary gains.” (2015) How can book reading close the word gap? Five key practices from research. We are going to be discussing a variety of articles over the next several weeks, but let’s dive into one framework to get us started. Let’s dive into the research so we can start wrapping our heads around all of this! Let’s arm ourselves with knowledge so we can make the best possible decisions for our students.
Ultimate vocabulary 2016 series#
That’s why we’re starting this series on vocabulary intervention. Now, if that isn’t overwhelming, then I don’t know what is! Every decision we make as clinicians has an impact. We do want to make sure we’re making the best decisions we possibly can. 🙂 It definitely doesn’t boil down to one decision. He’ll miss more time in the classroom and will have less of a chance to “catch up” as time passes. He’s more likely to fall behind and continue to need special education services. On the other hand, the “wrong” goal or strategy can have the opposite impact. He may even be able to “catch up”–no longer needing special education services. He’ll be able to start participating in the classroom more quickly. If we make the “right decisions,” Johnny will make more rapid progress. We want to make as much meaningful change as possible.Īfter all, the “right” goal or strategy can have an incredible impact.
Will we ever be able to catch up?Įither way, we want to make sure that we’re setting the right goal and implementing strategies that will give him the most gains. Typically developing children learn new words at an incredible rate. It feels like we’re already so far behind. His teacher says that he struggles to learn new words and that it is having a significant impact on his progress in the classroom. He scored below the 4th percentile on subtests, including vocabulary. You know that Johnny is struggling with vocabulary.
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