How are vocabulary and comprehension skills tied together?
- Vocabulary directly impacts reading comprehension because comprehension involves understanding, analyzing, and synthesizing words, sentences, and ideas
- Comprehension: the ability to understand what you have read
- Vocabulary: the body of words you know
How can we help our students improve their vocabulary and comprehension?
- Our brains construct meaning through relevance, emotion, and/or patterns and connections
- Each of these methods uses association to construct meaning and retention
What are some ways to improve vocabulary?
- Use new words in a story
- Use a new word in conversation for many days in a row
- Play games with words
- Make flashcards with pictures
- For many more examples of best practices, visit the original source listed below.
