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- Reading Comprehension Home
- Making Connections
- Fluency
- Determining Importance
- Inferring
- Metacognition
- Questioning
- Synthesizing
- Visualizing and Imagery
- Vocabulary and Word Identification
- Writing Across the Curriculum
Important UNCG Links
Vocabulary
- About Visualizing and Imagery
- Professional Books to help you develop lesson plans
- Children’s Books to use in lesson plans
- Some Helpful Web sites
Vocabulary & Word Identification:
Vocabulary and reading comprehension are linked. Building students’ vocabulary allows students to increase word consciousness. Word consciousness is when people develop the ability to recognize words that they don’t know, to recognize words that they have recently learned, and to recognize when a word has multiple definitions. To teach vocabulary with reading comprehension, a focus is put on teaching words that are related to each other and words that are important (Hoyt, 2005).
Reference:
Hoyt, L. (2005). Spotlight on comprehension: Building a literacy of thoughtfulness. Portsmouth, N.H: Heinemann Books
Quotes:
More and more we are coming to understand that the richness of one’s vocabulary is a controlling factor in developing sophisticated reading and thinking skills.
1(Duffy, G.A., 2003)
One’s knowledge of vocabulary relevant to a text is integrally related to comprehension of that text.
2(Hoyt, L., 2005, p. 11)
1Duffy, G.A. (2003). Explaining Reading: A Resource for teaching concepts, skills, and strategies. New York: Guilford Press.
2Hoyt, L. (2005). Spotlight on comprehension: Building a literacy of thoughtfulness. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Books.