Don’t get me wrong – learning a lot of words is incredibly important. Vocabulary knowledge is the heart of comprehension and academic achievement, and it means way more than just learning words. Deciphering tools are essential to lifelong learning Sound familiar? Kids like Jacob occupy many middle level classrooms, and they are not necessarily struggling readers. Yet the one word Jacob doesn’t know holds the key to comprehending the entire passage.
Jacob sounds out the word, but because he has also never heard it, it still doesn’t make sense.įinally, he just gives up and moves on.
He knows the other words in the paragraph but is stuck on a multisyllabic word he has never seen before. Jacob, a seventh grader, sits staring at a challenging text he has tried to read.
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