Vocabulary
Vocabulary knowledge is a critical aspect of making and creating meaning in written text. All teachers in all learning areas have a responsibility for developing their students’ vocabulary in ways that will help them meet the curriculum demands of their learning area.
Key resources
- Effective Literacy Practice in Years 5 to 8: Expanding students’ vocabulary: This text outlines the teacher’s role in expanding students’ personal vocabularies.
- Effective Literacy Strategies in Years 9–13: Chapter 2: Vocabulary: this resource focuses on the strategies that teachers and learners can use to solve new vocabulary and to discover and reinforce the meanings of the words and terms they encounter in the various subject areas.
- Teaching Reading Comprehension (Davis, 2007): Chapter 3: Working with vocabulary strategies: gives comprehensive guidance for explicit vocabulary instruction in years 4–8.
