Think strategically about how vocabulary might help your students master content-specific standards. Teaching Vocabulary Helps Students Develop Content Knowledge Still, how can one teach content well if students do not understand what they are reading? Also, how can students write in full paragraphs if they don’t know words? While we are all literacy teachers, tell that to some middle and high school science, math, and/or social studies teachers and you might be told in return that they teach their subject content not English.
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Although she received push out ELL services, if only I knew then how to better scaffold the learning through language supports, perhaps she might have been able to be more fully present in class. I, myself, can think back to my early days of teaching 6th grade when I had a student come into my class the day after they arrived from Vietnam with no English-speaking skills. Still, others may be hamstrung by the way we have been teaching reading in our schools: phonics and/or decoding in the early years-the debate still rages-being phased out in favor of specific academic content instruction in middle and high school. Others may have or have not been exposed to a varied vocabulary in their homes. Some students are coming to English as second language learners. The reasons why our students may lack robust vocabularies are varied. Yet far too many of our students stumble in expressing their thoughts, understanding the written intent of others, or even understanding what is being asked of them in written prompts because they do not have nor are growing in their awareness of vocabulary. Being able to both comprehend and write increasingly complex text and participate in oral discourse starts with a knowledge of words.
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