Expanding Vocabulary

Essential Strategies for K-1 Vocabulary Development
This program highlights 20 essential teaching strategies that support two major literacy goals: improve comprehension and develop a rich, robust vocabulary.  Children will learn how to explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings, determine meanings of unknown words, and more.

The research-based vocabulary strategies are practiced in this instruction and include:

• Turn to Your Neighbor
• Example – Non-example
• Shades of Meaning Continuum
• Parenthetical Phrases