I jsut leanred a great d3eal from lookign at the Reading Sklls Pyramid. I was tyring to understand how vocabulary contributes to reading skills.
Building Vocabulary Words
The definitions from the Report of the National Reading Panel (2000):
•Phonemic Awareness - the ability to hear and identify sounds in spoken words.
•Phonics - the relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language.
•Fluency - the capacity to read text accurately and quickly.
•Comprehension - the ability to understand and gain meaning from what has been read.
•Vocabulary - the words students must know to communicate effectively.
Techniques for Building Vocabulary Words - Reading & Other Media
The best method for building vocabulary is to be an active reader. But, there are differences between skilled active readers and less skilled passive ones (see reading comprehension) Students should learn to decode vocabulary words thru a vocabulary building techniques such as context clues and word roots. Word roorts means that students should learn to define words by learning the meanings of root words, prefixes and suffixes. Knowing the basics of the Latin and Greek word roots in English is useful and helps students get insight into how the English language vocabulary words derived and are structured. The use of media greatly affects the building of vocabulary. Some television programs use a large and rich vcoabulary, others are mostly explosions. Whereas many contemporary and classcial films (especially the musicals) had great conversations and rich vocabulary, many others are noticable for their poor quality of conversation (the Power Ranger might stand out as having the most limited vocabulary. Whole episodes consist of a dialogue such as "Lets do it" and "Watch out!", not exactly a sound track to build vocabulary. In interactive media, there are games where the entire sound track is explosions, there are interactive systems with rich vocabulary building, such as Time4Learning.
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