It would be difficult to overstate the importance of academic vocabulary to our students’ success in reading, the content areas, and beyond. In Reading, Writing and Learning in ESL (2005), Suzanne Peregoy and Owen Boyle frame it this way: What we know in any content area is distilled in the vocabulary we own in that subject. In other words, our academic vocabulary, the words we control, manipulate, and communicate with, reflect the content we know at the conceptual level. For all of our ELs, but most especially those who enter the country in middle or high school, academic vocabulary acquisition is a...
Read More Post a comment (0)We developed this blog to examine the latest in educational innovation, to hear from experts in the field about what works (and what doesn’t), and to discuss the personal stories and the public policies that have shaped our world. However, today we’d like to deviate slightly from our usual topics. Ever since we released the results of a groundbreaking study conducted in 2009, we have had so much wonderful feedback from educators that we felt compelled to share the results once again. During that year, Main Street Academix, a university-based independent research firm, conducted a study among 3rd graders in East Hartford...
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