Volume 2, Edition 19 – Flooding Students with New Vocabulary

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for teaching huge numbers of vocabulary words to students.

Vocabulary is often taught in small chunks at a time. However, research suggests that when taught in coordinated, effective ways, students can be exposed to huge swaths of vocabulary and both learn and retain the words. In an article for The Reading Teacher, a group of university professors and a classroom teacher lay out how this can work.

To get the most out of this week’s topic, watch the short video on this page, then click below to access the rest of this week’s materials and share this page with your colleagues:

Note: In the full article write-up, the link to the Marzano document may not work for everyone. If this is the case, click here to access the Marzano document [pdf].