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Ten Important Words Plus: A Strategy for Building Word Knowledge
Author(s) -
Yopp Ruth Helen,
Yopp Hallie Kay
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.61.2.5
Subject(s) - vocabulary , sentence , reading comprehension , comprehension , class (philosophy) , psychology , vocabulary development , meaning (existential) , reading (process) , word (group theory) , computer science , linguistics , teaching method , mathematics education , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , psychotherapist , programming language
In this strategy, students individually select and record 10 important words on self‐adhesive notes as they read a text. Then students build a group bar graph displaying their choices, write a sentence that summarizes the content, and then respond to prompts that ask them to think about words in powerful ways. Several prompts are suggested, each emphasizing the meaning, manipulation, or application of selected words in various contexts. This strategy is based on principles of effective vocabulary instruction as it involvesrepeated exposure to words active engagement with words study of words with instructional potentialThis strategy fosters word knowledge as well as comprehension of text with its focus on word meanings and important ideas in text. This article is also the source for a Class Acts podcast. Download “Teaching key vocabulary” fromwww.reading.orgresourcespodcastsindex.html