Entries Tagged as ‘Vocabulary’

May 17, 2009

Philadelphia School District focuses on vocabulary to help improve student literacy

by Christopher Paslay
 
True or false: If a student is unfamiliar with only five percent of the words in a particular text, he will not be able to comprehend the overall meaning of the passage.
 
Answer: True.
 
Research on student literacy shows that a child can know 19 out of every 20 words on a reading assignment and [...]