Instruction Methods
Demonstrating or directly telling; the My Turn phase of instruction.
Modeling
A test requiring students to actively write or say the word or definition
Expressive Vocabulary
The rapidly widening gap between students who read independently and those who don’t.
What is the Matthew Effect
Visual representations of vocabulary that help students organize subject matter by having them categorize, label the categories, and discuss concepts related to a target word.
Systematic Maps
Understanding the meaning of words when people speak
Receptive Vocabulary
Draw too general a conclusion
Overgeneralize
This method involves two key components, the keyword and a visual depiction of the vocabulary word.
Keyword Method
A teacher can assign different texts on the same topic so that the learner encounters the word in different contexts
Narrow Reading
Items or concepts that are not representative of the specified word
Nonexamples
A meaning that is not literal
Figurative Meaning
A speech form or expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of the separate words comprising it, but instead must be learned as a whole.
Idioms
The primary meaning of a word. The actual meaning.
Literal Meaning