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This article presents a strategy to use with upper elementary or middle school students to help them use the context of a word to find out the meaning. The authors combined two strategies of using context clues and semantic gradients to help students make the vocabulary-to-comprehension connection explicit.

This is an introduction to using E-books in the elementary classroom

This article focuses on the different levels of vocabulary and what they mean. Also, the article talks about what effective vocabulary instruction is and how it should be used. It gives many different ideas for strategies that could be used to help teach vocabulary to students such as graphic organizers, academic vocabulary journals and quick writes. The article gives examples for both elementary and secondary students.

You might include the title to pique other students' interests...hard to make a decision about it if the link is all we see. Your description is very helpful.

Under related files the sentence frames document includes great sentence frames to use in literacy.

This is a strategy to improve comprehension and describe parts of a story through writing.

This is a strategy to assist students with predicting, story structure, character analysis, and story response.