Hello Parents!

As your childs teacher, I believe that students need to understand different

vocabulary learning strategies to include in their reading and writing. Vocabulary
knowledge is vital to students academic success. If students do not understand
the meaning of the words in a given text, they will have difficulty comprehending
the text.
Here are the five characteristics necessary for students vocabulary learning: (1)
accessing background knowledge, (2) connecting unknown vocabulary to known
knowledge, (3) ensuring opportunities for meaningful vocabulary use, (4)
providing multiple exposures and (5) focusing on higher level knowledge.
While working on reading and writing with your children, these are the stages that
they will go through when working with new vocabulary. The before-reading
phase is to prepare students for what they will encounter in the text and to
develop domain knowledge. Next, during the during-reading phrase, students
read and determine how their background knowledge can be linked to the text
and the target vocabulary. Finally after-reading phrase consists of students
reviewing and critically thinking about their learning so that they can refine and
deepen their world knowledge using new vocabulary.
Parents, please have your student practice reading books and writing at home.

Sincerely,
Ms. Miranda