Building Vocabulary during Storytime
After reading Judi Moreillon’s wonderful book on team-teaching to bolster reading comprehension, Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension, my mind has been buzzing about making more strategic plans for how I interact with my kindergarten and first graders during release time.
So I was really interested to read Laura Pappano’s Harvard Education Letter article summarizing research about, and strategies for, introducing more sophisticated vocabulary to early childhood and primary students.
We can do this in our libraries. We can help build meaningful vocabulary for kids (and many of us are doing this already). More and more, I am convinced that if we do not actively talk about the cognitive strategies and growth that students make with us, we are missing the boat.�
June 8th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Once again, thank you Kristin! This is a perfect example of why I turn to your blog to keep me informed of sound, educational, and current information. I was able to immediately share this with my colleagues and they are so thankful. They now have research-based evidence for something many are doing intuitively.