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Here are six games parents or tutors can use to help young readers practice word recognition, spelling patterns, and letter-sound knowledge. When planning to play one of these games, choose words to use from books the child is reading or has read recently. The games should also be chosen or designed to promote the child's sense of competence and success.

1. Concentration

To make

Select five to ten words from a book (or books) the child is reading. Print each word clearly and boldly on separate 3x5 inch index cards, making pairs of each word. (The child may be able to help you by copying the words you write.)

To play

Shuffle the cards and place them face down in neat rows. Take turns turning up two cards at a time and reading the words aloud. If the two cards match, the player keeps them and takes a second turn. If they do not match, the cards are replaced face down and the next player takes a turn. Play until all the cards are matched. The player with the most pairs wins. If the child has trouble recognizing a word, say the word - do not ask the child to "sound out" the word. The purpose of this game is to build automatic recognition of whole words.

You can control the difficulty of the game by the choice and number of words used: for very beginning readers, choose meaningful words that are visually distinctive: "ghost", "dark", "sister", and keep the number of words low. For a more challenging game, include some words that are less distinctive: "when", "what", "this", "that", but be careful not to overwhelm the child.

Variation 1

Instead of matching pairs, you can use rhyming pairs: look, book; dark, park.

Variation 2

This game can also be used to build letter recognition and letter/sound association. Paste or draw simple pictures on one set of cards; and on the other set, print initial consonants to go with the pictures. For example, paste the picture of a dog on one card, and write the letter "D" on a matching card.

Note: This game can be adapted to use with older children, or more advanced readers: variations can include vocabulary practice such as using homonyms, (words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings: cent/scent; dear/deer, etc.) or contractions, (can't; cannot, etc.).

2. Go fish

This game is good for early fluent to fluent readers.

To make

Select ten to 20 words from a book (or books) the child is reading. Print the words clearly and boldly on separate 3x5 inch index cards, making pairs of each word. (Children may help by copying the words you write.) Two to four players can play this game.

To play

Shuffle and deal three to five cards to each player. Place the rest of the deck face down. Players take turns asking each other for a card to match one held in his or her hand. If the opponent has a matching card, it is given over, and the first player takes another turn. If the opponent does not have a match, he or she says "Go Fish" and the player draws from the remaining deck of cards, and the next player takes a turn. Each time a player has a match, he or she reads the words, and puts down the pair, face up. Continue the game until the cards are all used up.

Instead of matching words, rhyming words can be used. In this case, players ask for "a word that sounds like 'night'..." At the end, the child can earn extra points by dictating or writing additional words that rhyme with the base words, or creating "silly" sentences using the rhymes.

Note: This game can be adapted to use with older children, or more advanced readers: variations can include vocabulary practice such as using homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings: cent/scent; dear/deer, etc.), or contractions (can't; cannot, etc.).

3. Old maid

To make

Select three words per player from a book (or books) being read. Print them clearly and boldly on separate 3x5 inch index cards, making pairs of words. Choose one more word without a match that will be the winning card.

To play

Shuffle and deal three to six cards to each player. Players take turns drawing a card from a player to their left. If a player draws a card that matches one in his or her hand, he/she reads the two matching words in order to keep the pair. Play continues until all the cards are matched, except for the one odd card. The player who holds that card at the end wins the game.

Note: This game can be adapted to use with older children, or more advanced readers: variations can include vocabulary practice such as using homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings: cent/scent; dear/deer, etc.), or contractions (can't; cannot, etc.).

4. Monopoly

This is a great game to help teach word family patterns and spelling patterns. This should be used with children who write fairly comfortably, usually second grade or older.

To make

Create a game board with four or five squares on each side. Prepare word cards with families of words that emerge from the child's reading: night, light, tight; went, bent, sent; hat, cat, bat. (For beginning readers or younger children, make sure the patterns are not too similar: mat, sat, rat; man, can, ran; met, set, bet.) Color code each word family and each side of the game board.

Place the words face up around the board in sets. To add to the element of chance, have other game directions on the board, such as "take another turn", "go back 2 spaces", etc. Prepare score sheets for each player with color-coded headings for each word family.

To play

Role dice or use a spinner to move around the board. Wherever a player lands he reads the word, then writes it in the appropriate "word family" category on the score sheet. Extra points can be earned by dictating or writing sentences with the rhyming words.

5. Rhyming games

Play rhyming games to teach about the patterns in words. Try the following, for example, for words in the same family as the word black:

Introduce a poem or rhyming story such as Miss Mary Mack:
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
all dressed in black, black, black
with silver buttons, buttons, buttons
up and down her back, back, back...

Encourage the child to point out words in books that have a similar spelling pattern as in black.

Help the child think of other words that have this pattern. You may have to write a few words for him or her:
sack
pack
stack

Then have the child read the whole word and underline the repeated part of the word, "ack."

Using magnetic letters or Scrabble pieces, form a word with the "ack" pattern. Ask the student to change the first letter of the word (for example: 's' in sack) to make a new word, such as pack. You should be sure to provide a limited number of letters (two or three at first) for the child to choose from.

Remember to choose a word pattern that is useful and important to the student and that relates to something that he or she has read or will read. If possible, start with a word he or she already knows in the word family. After reading a book about being sad, for example, start with the word "cry" and then follow with "fry", "try", and "wry".

Remember to review the word families you've chosen to work on periodically by playing some of the other games described above.

Be sure to give the student a chance to go back to a book, poem, or other texts where he or she can apply this new reading skill. Poems, nursery rhymes, and jump rope jingles are a great resource for early readers.

6. Fishing for sounds

This is a game for emergent readers and writers.

To make

Find and cut out small pictures of familiar objects from magazines, old workbooks, catalogues. Try to find several pictures that start with the same letter, such as book, bed, basket, boy; snake, sun, skate, slide, etc. (The child can help; this is a good language activity too.)

Cut out 12-15 fish shapes and paste or draw one picture on each fish.

On individual 3x5 inch index cards or on an 8x11 inch piece of paper or cardboard, print consonant letters with a key picture for each group of pictures found. (For example, print the letter "S" with the picture of a sun to represent all the words beginning with that letter.) (If using a sheet of paper, print only two or three letters per sheet.)

To play

Select two or three sets of fish pictures that start with the same letters and mix them up. Place face down on a table and take turns "going fishing." As each fish is turned over, the child names the picture and places it in the appropriate pile under the key letter / picture. When all the fish are caught and placed correctly, have the child "read" the pictures under each heading. If necessary, read along with him or her, saying the letter name and stressing the initial sound of the word. "Yes, here are 'S' pictures: sssun, sssnake, sssaxophone."

To add excitement, you can play as opponents, each player having one or two categories and key letter / pictures. Take turns fishing, and discard those fish that belong to the other player.

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"Reader's Theater proved to be almost a magic solution for Griffith: In just 10 weeks of using RT, every child in her class had gained a full grade level in reading. After a year, the children's gains had jumped to three years of growth. Griffith calls the transformation in their reading fluency totally remarkable." Quote taken from The Power of Reader's Theater, Scholastic Instructor

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Online program that puts stories to song. Students listen and follow along as the stories are sung to them. Program requires each story be read 3 times before taking the assessments.

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Fun activities parents can use to build children's language skills. Includes a reading checklist, typical language accomplishments for different age groups, book suggestions, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.

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Description: The student is given a copy of notes summarizing content from a class lecture or assigned reading. Blanks are inserted in the notes where key facts or concepts should appear. As information is covered during lecture or in a reading assignment, the student writes missing content into blanks to complete the guided notes.

Purpose: Guided notes promote active engagement during lecture or independent reading, provide full and accurate notes for use as a study guide, and help students to identify the most important information covered (Heward, 2001).

Preparation: The instructor identifies the lecture content or assigned reading that will be covered in the guided notes.

Intervention Steps: Guided notes can be prepared and implemented through these steps:

1. A set of notes is prepared that contains the essential information to be covered in the lecture content or assigned reading.

2. The instructor reviews the notes and highlights or underlines the key facts, concepts, or information that the student will be responsible for writing into the final version of the guided notes.

3. Using a word processor, the instructor replaces the segments of notes identified in the previous step with blanks.

4. Prior to handing out copies of the guided notes in class, the instructor ensures that students understand their responsibility to attend to content covered in the lecture or the reading and to fill in each of the blanks in the guided notes with the appropriate concepts, definitions, or other content.

5. During lecture or while reviewing assigned readings in class, the instructor displays the guided notes (via overhead projector, computer projector, or smartboard) and fills in blanks with appropriate facts or concepts as they are presented.

Adjusting/Troubleshooting: Here are recommendations for using guided notes and addressing issues that might arise:

Keep guided note entries brief. Shorter guided note entries promote student understanding of content as well as or better than longer entries (Konrad, Joseph & Eveleigh, 2009). Also, short entries can increase student motivation to write in responses.

Distribute entry items throughout the guided notes. Guided notes help to promote active student engagement during lecture or reading (Heward, 2001). When entry items are distributed evenly throughout the guided notes, they require higher rates of active student responding (Konrad, Joseph & Eveleigh, 2009), which can both promote mastery of content and increase levels of on-task behavior.

Verify student completion of notes. To ensure that students are actively engaged in completing guided notes, the instructor can occasionally collect and review them for accuracy and completeness (on a random and unpredictable schedule).. As an incentive, those students correctly completing their guided notes can be assigned bonus grade points (Konrad, Joseph & Eveleigh, 2009). Or students can periodically pair off and compare their guided note entries for completeness while the instructor circulates through the room conducting spot-checks of individual students' guided notes.

Have students tally notes-review sessions. Guided notes are a powerful tool for reviewing course content. Students can be encouraged to write a checkmark on the cover of a set of completed guided notes each time that they review them (Lazarus, 1996). These tallies assist students to monitor whether they have adequately reviewed those notes in preparation for quizzes and tests.

Fade the use of guided notes. As the class becomes more proficient at note-taking, the instructor can gradually 'fade' the use of guided notes by providing less pre-formatted notes-content and requiring that students write a larger share of the notes on their own (Heward, 1996).

Give students responsibility for creating guided notes. The classroom teacher generally is responsible for preparing guided notes. Instructors of older students, however, may discover that they can hand some responsibility to their students to prepare guided-notes. For example, as a cooperative-learning exercise, a group of students might be assigned a chapter-section from a biology text and asked to compose a set of guided notes based on its content. The teacher can then review and edit the notes as needed.

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Accommodating Diverse Learners. Students who have difficulty keeping up with even the modest writing requirements of guided notes may benefit from being assigned a peer helper from the class with whom they can meet at the end of the lecture. The peer helper reviews the student's notes to ensure that each section contains complete and accurate information about the day's lecture content.

As another accommodation for students of diverse abilities, the instructor might prepare several versions of guided notes. Students who find note-taking most challenging would be given a version of guided-notes that requires relatively little writing, while more skilled note-takers could have a version of notes that call for the student to record and synthesize a greater amount of lecture information.

References

Heward, W.L. (1996). Three low-tech strategies for increasing the frequency of active student response during group instruction. In R.Gardner III, D.M. Sainato, J.O. Cooper, T.E. Heron, W.L. Heward, J.W. Eshleman, & T.A.Grossi (Eds.) Behavior analysis in education: Focus on measurably superior instruction (pp.283-320). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Heward, W. L. (2001). Guided notes: Improving the effectiveness of your lectures. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Partnership Grant for Improving the Quality of Education for Students with Disabilities. Retrieved from http://ada.osu.edu/resources/fastfacts/

Konrad, M., Joseph, L. M., & Eveleigh, E. (2009). A meta-analytic review of guided notes. Education and Treatment of Children, 32, 421-444.

Lazarus, B.D. (1996, Spring). Flexible skeletons: Guided notes for adolescents with mild disabilities. Teaching Exceptional Children, 28(3), 36-40.

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Description: The student is given a copy of notes summarizing content from a class lecture or assigned reading. Blanks are inserted in the notes where key facts or concepts should appear. As information is covered during lecture or in a reading assignment, the student writes missing content into blanks to complete the guided notes.

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Cornell Note taking. amazing effective note taking process that increases student comprehension

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1. Record: During the lecture, use the note-taking column to record the
lecture using telegraphic sentences.
2. Questions: As soon after class as possible, formulate questions based on
the notes in the right-hand column. Writing questions helps to clarify
meanings, reveal relationships, establish continuity, and strengthen
memory. Also, the writing of questions sets up a perfect stage for exam-studying
later.
3. Recite: Cover the note-taking column with a sheet of paper. Then, looking
at the questions or cue-words in the question and cue column only, say
aloud, in your own words, the answers to the questions, facts, or ideas
indicated by the cue-words.
4. Reflect: Reflect on the material by asking yourself questions, for example:
"What's the significance of these facts? What principle are they based on?
How can I apply them? How do they fit in with what I already know?
What's beyond them?
5. Review: Spend at least ten minutes every week reviewing all your previous
notes. If you do, you'll retain a great deal for current use, as well as, for the
exam.

Adapted from How to Study in College 7/e by Walter Pauk, 2001 Houghton Mifflin Company
pdf of the Cornell Note-taking System

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Teachers all over look to Gerald G. Duffy, EdD, for his expert advice on how to teach reading, and part and parcel of Duffy's reading strategies is his focus on vocabulary. In this excerpt from his best-selling text Explaining Reading, Duffy demonstrates how semantic maps can help students visualize how word meanings can be categorized.
As students progress in school, subject matter becomes more complex. Correspondingly, word meaning becomes more complex.

It becomes more and more difficult to provide direct experiences with new words because, instead of learning words by directly experiencing them, it is much more typical for new concepts to be learned through vicarious experiences. That is, we read about the new words and talk about the new words, but we do not directly experience them.

Second, vocabulary learning becomes more complex as kids progress through the grades because words are organized into categories and subcategories. While organizing ideas and concepts according to categories is "natural" in the sense that good verbal learners all do it, learning to categorize can be complex and difficult for some students.

Semantic mapping is one way to explain how to categorize word meanings. It remains essential to identify key attributes distinguishing one word from another. But semantic maps provide the additional benefit of helping students visualize how word meanings can be categorized. The following is an example of how this might be done.

This example assumes a third/fourth-grade combination. Students are working together on a science unit on rocks. Their ultimate goal is to take a trip to a local museum and to be able to identify the different rocks on display there. As part of their study of rocks, the teacher orally reads Joanna Cole's The Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth (Scholastic, 1987). In the discussion following the teacher's reading of the book, it is clear that students cannot distinguish among the various categories of rocks. The teacher decides to provide an explanation of how words can be organized into categories as a means for enriching word meanings.
Lesson Introduction
Say something like: "In The Magic School Bus story we just heard, Ms. Frizzle and her students found lots and lots of rocks. It is hard to remember the names of all those rocks. Let me show you how I remember these new words. The secret is to think about how they are alike, to think about how they are different, and to think of a single box with a single name that we could put certain words in and another box that we could put other words in. Let me show you how I do it with the first three words and then you can try it with other words."
Modeling the Thinking
Say something like: "When I am trying to understand the meaning of words like sandstone, shale, and limestone, I try to build a picture in my mind of how the words are alike and how they are different, and then I try to decide if something is an example of one of the words. I can map the picture in my mind like this. I think to myself that sandstone, shale, and limestone are all rocks. So they are alike in that way, and I can show it this way:

"But Ms. Frizzle said in the book that they are also alike because they are all 'sedimentary' rocks. So, I can show that like this:

"So, I can say that these three rocks are alike because they are all sedimentary rocks. My map of the words helps me with that. Now I have to think about how these three rocks are different. One way they are different is that they are different colors. Sandstone is tan, shale is gray, and limestone is white. So, I can add to my map like this:

"But I learned from the book that these three rocks are also different because of what they are made of. Sandstone is made of sand pressed together, shale is made of mud pressed together, and limestone is made of shells pressed together. So now I can add those to my map.

"So now I can tell which rock is which. They are all sedimentary, but sandstone must be tan and is made of sand all pressed together; shale would be rock that is gray and is made of mud all pressed together; and limestone would be rock that is white and is made of shells all pressed together.

"By looking for how the words are alike and how they are different, and then using that information to decide which is which, I am able to use the words correctly when I am talking and writing about rocks or trying to tell one rock from another."
Scaffolded Assistance Example 1: Extensive Teacher Help
Say something like: "Remember when the bus sprouted a drill and went deeper into the earth? They found a different kind of rock down there. It was called 'metamorphic' rock. So I would have to put that on my map next to 'sedimentary.'

"So, then you need to think to yourselves, what rocks are 'metamorphic' rocks? Yes, marble and slate are both metamorphic, so I can put them on my map like this:

"So, how can you tell that a rock is marble or slate? I'll read this section to you again, and then we'll put what we find on our map. Yes, marble is harder limestone, and slate is harder shale. So let's put that on our map.

"So, how would you decide if a piece of rock was marble? Would it have to be hard? Would it have to look like the color of limestone? Yes. It cannot be marble unless it is very hard and unless it is a color like limestone."
Example 2: Less Teacher Help
For a second level of assistance, you might continue to build the semantic map for rocks, using the igneous rocks described next in the book. This time, however, you would provide less direction. Say something like: "As Ms. Frizzle and the kids went deeper into the earth, they found another kind of rock. Let me read this section to you again, and then we will fill in the map together."
Example 3: No Teacher Help
At a third level of assistance, you may reread the section in the book on volcanic rock, remind the students to think about how these rocks are similar and what they would put on the map, how they differ from each other and how they would put that on the map, and how they would use what is on the map to determine what a particular rock is an example of. But you would leave it to them to do the actual categorizing.
Application in Reading
This lesson illustrates how explanations can be applied after a selection has been read. Because this is a unit on rocks, the teacher will present other books and articles to the students that contain the names of various kinds of rocks. In such future reading situations, the semantic map constructed in this lesson can be used to distinguish the various kinds of rocks.
How Will You Know the Lesson Has Been Successful?
You will know the lesson has been successful if, in subsequent discussions during the unit on rocks, students use the new vocabulary words correctly in their oral discussion and in their writing.

Application in Writing
Vocabulary is strengthened by use. The more the new words are used, the more they are solidified in the mind. Vocabulary is particularly strengthened when new words are used in writing. Consequently, we should look for opportunities to have students use the new vocabulary words in their writing.
From Explaining Reading, Second Edition: A Resource for Teaching Concepts, Skills, and Strategies, by Gerald G. Duffy. Copyright 2009 by Guilford Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of Guilford Press.

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Teachers all over look to Gerald G. Duffy, EdD, for his expert advice on how to teach reading, and part and parcel of Duffy's reading strategies is his focus on vocabulary. In this excerpt from his best-selling text Explaining Reading, Duffy demonstrates how semantic maps can help students visualize how word meanings can be categorized.
As students progress in school, subject matter becomes more complex. Correspondingly, word meaning becomes more complex.

It becomes more and more difficult to provide direct experiences with new words because, instead of learning words by directly experiencing them, it is much more typical for new concepts to be learned through vicarious experiences. That is, we read about the new words and talk about the new words, but we do not directly experience them.

Second, vocabulary learning becomes more complex as kids progress through the grades because words are organized into categories and subcategories. While organizing ideas and concepts according to categories is "natural" in the sense that good verbal learners all do it, learning to categorize can be complex and difficult for some students.

Semantic mapping is one way to explain how to categorize word meanings. It remains essential to identify key attributes distinguishing one word from another. But semantic maps provide the additional benefit of helping students visualize how word meanings can be categorized. The following is an example of how this might be done.

This example assumes a third/fourth-grade combination. Students are working together on a science unit on rocks. Their ultimate goal is to take a trip to a local museum and to be able to identify the different rocks on display there. As part of their study of rocks, the teacher orally reads Joanna Cole's The Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth (Scholastic, 1987). In the discussion following the teacher's reading of the book, it is clear that students cannot distinguish among the various categories of rocks. The teacher decides to provide an explanation of how words can be organized into categories as a means for enriching word meanings.
Lesson Introduction
Say something like: "In The Magic School Bus story we just heard, Ms. Frizzle and her students found lots and lots of rocks. It is hard to remember the names of all those rocks. Let me show you how I remember these new words. The secret is to think about how they are alike, to think about how they are different, and to think of a single box with a single name that we could put certain words in and another box that we could put other words in. Let me show you how I do it with the first three words and then you can try it with other words."
Modeling the Thinking
Say something like: "When I am trying to understand the meaning of words like sandstone, shale, and limestone, I try to build a picture in my mind of how the words are alike and how they are different, and then I try to decide if something is an example of one of the words. I can map the picture in my mind like this. I think to myself that sandstone, shale, and limestone are all rocks. So they are alike in that way, and I can show it this way:

"But Ms. Frizzle said in the book that they are also alike because they are all 'sedimentary' rocks. So, I can show that like this:

"So, I can say that these three rocks are alike because they are all sedimentary rocks. My map of the words helps me with that. Now I have to think about how these three rocks are different. One way they are different is that they are different colors. Sandstone is tan, shale is gray, and limestone is white. So, I can add to my map like this:

"But I learned from the book that these three rocks are also different because of what they are made of. Sandstone is made of sand pressed together, shale is made of mud pressed together, and limestone is made of shells pressed together. So now I can add those to my map.

"So now I can tell which rock is which. They are all sedimentary, but sandstone must be tan and is made of sand all pressed together; shale would be rock that is gray and is made of mud all pressed together; and limestone would be rock that is white and is made of shells all pressed together.

"By looking for how the words are alike and how they are different, and then using that information to decide which is which, I am able to use the words correctly when I am talking and writing about rocks or trying to tell one rock from another."
Scaffolded Assistance Example 1: Extensive Teacher Help
Say something like: "Remember when the bus sprouted a drill and went deeper into the earth? They found a different kind of rock down there. It was called 'metamorphic' rock. So I would have to put that on my map next to 'sedimentary.'

"So, then you need to think to yourselves, what rocks are 'metamorphic' rocks? Yes, marble and slate are both metamorphic, so I can put them on my map like this:

"So, how can you tell that a rock is marble or slate? I'll read this section to you again, and then we'll put what we find on our map. Yes, marble is harder limestone, and slate is harder shale. So let's put that on our map.

"So, how would you decide if a piece of rock was marble? Would it have to be hard? Would it have to look like the color of limestone? Yes. It cannot be marble unless it is very hard and unless it is a color like limestone."
Example 2: Less Teacher Help
For a second level of assistance, you might continue to build the semantic map for rocks, using the igneous rocks described next in the book. This time, however, you would provide less direction. Say something like: "As Ms. Frizzle and the kids went deeper into the earth, they found another kind of rock. Let me read this section to you again, and then we will fill in the map together."
Example 3: No Teacher Help
At a third level of assistance, you may reread the section in the book on volcanic rock, remind the students to think about how these rocks are similar and what they would put on the map, how they differ from each other and how they would put that on the map, and how they would use what is on the map to determine what a particular rock is an example of. But you would leave it to them to do the actual categorizing.
Application in Reading
This lesson illustrates how explanations can be applied after a selection has been read. Because this is a unit on rocks, the teacher will present other books and articles to the students that contain the names of various kinds of rocks. In such future reading situations, the semantic map constructed in this lesson can be used to distinguish the various kinds of rocks.
How Will You Know the Lesson Has Been Successful?
You will know the lesson has been successful if, in subsequent discussions during the unit on rocks, students use the new vocabulary words correctly in their oral discussion and in their writing.

Application in Writing
Vocabulary is strengthened by use. The more the new words are used, the more they are solidified in the mind. Vocabulary is particularly strengthened when new words are used in writing. Consequently, we should look for opportunities to have students use the new vocabulary words in their writing.
From Explaining Reading, Second Edition: A Resource for Teaching Concepts, Skills, and Strategies, by Gerald G. Duffy. Copyright 2009 by Guilford Press. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of Guilford Press.

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