Growing Vocabulary to Improve Content-Area Reading and Writing
This webinar explores ways to build students’ vocabulary knowledge so they can improve their reading and writing skills in the content areas. The first part of the talk will target vocabulary development with activities to introduce new words and activities to help students practice these words and make them their own. The second part will focus on vocabulary application with examples of content-area reading and writing tasks that engage students with new words and word-learning strategies.
Deborah Short, Ph.D
Division Director, Center for Applied Linguistics
This webinar explores ways to build students’ vocabulary knowledge so they can improve their reading and writing skills in the content areas. The first part of the talk will target vocabulary development with activities to introduce new words and activities to help students practice these words and make them their own. The second part will focus on vocabulary application with examples of content-area reading and writing tasks that engage students with new words and word-learning strategies.
In this webinar replay, you will learn how to:
- Improve student vocabulary through reading and writing
- Help students make vocabulary their own
- Learn content-area reading and writing activities to increase vocabulary
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