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ED • website: [wvced.com](wvced.com)[ ](wvced.com)[wvancleave@wvced.com](wvancleave@wvced.com)  \nFraming Our Discussion  \nPassive & Active Vocabulary  \npassive (receptive) vocabulary  \nWords you know when you hear/read them  \n(educated adult = 40,000 words)  \nWords you use  \n(educated adult = 20,000 words)  \nactive (expressive) vocabulary  \nActive  \nVocabulary: Writing & Speaking  \npassive (receptive) vocabulary  \nactive (expressive) vocabulary  \nactive (expressive) vocabulary – in speech  \nWords you know when you hear/read them  \n(educated adult = 40,000 words)  \nWords you use (educated adult = 20,000 words)  \nWords you use in speech  \n(educated adult = 10,000 words)  \nVocabulary in the Brain  \nOld view of vocabulary in the brain…  \n• Words matched with their definitions  \nNew, more sophisticated and realistic view…  \n• Words related to other words, experiences with those words, etc .  \n• Not about “I know it” or “I don’t know  \n• Knowledge in layers and associations  \nit”  \nHow We Develop Vocabulary  \nThrough 3 rd grade, vocabulary is primarily learned through oral language .  \nStarting in 4th grade, most words we learn are through reading.  \nVocabulary For Reading But Also For Writing  \nFor Reading:  \n”The lynchpin of deep comprehension is word knowledge .”  \n(Perfetti & Adlof, 2015, as cited in McKeown et al, 2017, 2)  \nStudents needs to know 90% of the words on a page to understand the text.  \n(Nagy & Scott, 2000)  \nFor Writing:  \nVocabulary also affects writing quality. Strong vocabulary in writers begins to vary by genre, reflecting variances in genre-based expectations .  \n(Olinghouse & Graham, 2009; Olinghouse & Wilson, 2013, as cited in McKeown et al, 2017)  \nVocabulary Loop (Duff, Tomblin, & Catts, 2015)  \n• If you have a larger vocabulary, it makes reading easier.  \n• If you read more, you build vocabulary.  \n• It’s a positive cycle—but it functions in strong readers and/or students with strong vocabularies .  \n• In other words, the strong get stronger while the weak get weaker.  \nWhat Good Readers Do…  \n• Good readers ”flesh out” meanings of new words through repeated but varying exposures . Since weaker readers don’t do that, we need to teach words quite deeply.  \n(Duff, Tomblin, & Catts, 2015)  \n• “Proficient users of language are more inclined to notice the distinctive semantic and structural features of words they encounter because they are tuned into relevant details, such as familiar affixes and roots, that will help them file the word in their mental dictionaries .”  \n(Moats, 2020, 221)  \n“What We Already Know and Believe”  \n“Meanings we ultimately take from reading usually reside somewhere between what the writer of the words intended and the listener or reader’s perceptions and ideas about the topic . Everything we comprehend through listening or reading is filtered through the lens of what we already know and believe .”  \n(Moats, 2020, 217)","cbCais389v1Go80y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCais389v1Go80y","pdf",1786804,65,"English","# Framing Our Discussion\n## Passive & Active Vocabulary\n## Vocabulary in the Brain\n## How We Develop Vocabulary\n## Vocabulary For Reading But Also For Writing\n## Vocabulary Loop\n## What Good Readers Do…\n## What We Already Know and Believe","[{\"question\":\"What is the difference between passive (receptive) and active (expressive) vocabulary?\",\"answer\":\"Passive vocabulary refers to words you know when you hear or read them, while active vocabulary refers to words you use in speech and writing.\"},{\"question\":\"How does vocabulary development change from early to later grades?\",\"answer\":\"Through about 3rd grade, vocabulary is primarily learned through oral language. Starting in 4th grade, most new words are learned through reading.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is vocabulary important for reading comprehension?\",\"answer\":\"Deep comprehension depends on word knowledge, and students generally need to know around 90% of the words on a page to understand the text.\"}]","Building Comprehension & Writing Through Vocabulary | PDF",1790597302,164]