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Vocabulary knowledge must be intentionally nurtured to ensure that students are ready for the greater vocabulary demands of reading complex texts and writing multiparagraph essays, but we need to pay attention to cracks in the foundation and scaffold our lessons accordingly, or it all falls apart. This workshop will equip participants to consider the role of text sets to build background knowledge and provide multiple exposures of newly acquired words. Participants will also examine possibilities for preteaching as part of an explicit vocabulary routine, generating and asking textdependent questions, utilizing context clues/word parts, and teaching vocabulary at the point of use. Secondary (612) Language Comprehension

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