Provide a vocabulary-rich environment.

Model, teach, and have students practice strategies for discovering the meanings of words.

• Model, teach, and have children practice strategies for discovering the meanings of words

• model for children techniques adults use for learning word meanings (e.g., ask questions, use the context, lookit up)

• teach and have children practice techniques they can use to discover meanings of words (e.g., ask a peer or adult, use the context, look it up in a dictionary, etc)

• model for children techniques adults use for learning word meanings (e.g., ask questions, use the context, lookit up)

• teach and have children practice techniques they can use to discover meanings of words (e.g., ask a peer or adult, use the context, use root words and suffixes, look it up in a dictionary, etc)