[CALIBK12] Looking for reading research

[Catania, Amy]

In my experience, lists and quizzes mean nothing to students.  You can
quiz them all you want on the words, but unless they see them in context
in an actual work, the word will not be solidified in their vocabulary.

 

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Is free choice reading the best way to acquire Academic Vocabulary?

Or is this a case where lists and quizzes work better?

 

Kathy Bowman

Teacher Librarian

Poly High School

Riverside, CA

kbowman at rusd.k12.ca.us

 

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to
govern but impossible to enslave.  Baron Henry Peter Brougham, 1778-1868

 

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