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article presents strategies forintroducing and practicing meaningvocabulary.  \nn order to comprehend,students must know therviuI          pi   u,oLuu  L   uot nuY umeanings of the words they read.Yet too often,Lvocabulary instruction is tedious and ineffec-tive.In this article I suggest ways to help studentsexperience success and enjoyment in learning vo-cabulary.These strategies have been used fromkindergarten through college;in whole classes,small groups,and special settings;in Spanish andEnglish;and internationally.The engagement thatstudents experience results in enhanced learningas well as a sense of excitement about words.Twostrategies,Semantic Impressions and Word ExpertCards,help teachers to introduce words.Four addi-tional techniques—Anything Goes,Connect Two,Two in One,and Find That Word—provide the mo-tivation and practice that help students becomecomfortable using new vocabulary in reading,writ-ing,and speaking.  \n## How important is meaningvocabulary?\n\nThe influence of meaning vocabulary is oneof the most enduring findings of educational re-search.Vocabulary knowledge is among the bestpredictors of reading achievement(Daneman,1991).The National Reading Panel(NationalInstitute of Child Health and Human Development[NICHD],2000)has affirmed the prominence of  \nvocabulary in the reading process.Differences inchildren's vocabularies develop even before schoolbegins and are key to inequality of educational at-tainment (Hart &Risley,1995).  \nWhile a substantial amount of general vocab-ulary is acquired through wide reading,it is alsoimportant for teachers to address word learning di-rectly(Baumann,Kame'enui,&Ash,2003).Theschool curriculum is filled with challenging newwords.Novels,social studies texts,and science ex-periments all have vocabulary that needs to be mas-tered before students can comprehend and learn.Direct instruction in word meanings is effective,can make a significant difference in a student'soverall vocabulary,and is critical for those studentswho do not read extensively(Beck,McKeown,&Kucan,2002).  \nOne instructional practice is to have studentslook words up in a dictionary,copy or restate defi-nitions,and then create sentences using the words.However,students often cannot understand the def-initions that dictionaries,even children's diction-aries,present(McKeown,1993).I have seen fifthgraders copy\"the state in which\"as the completedefinition of a noun.Students may not know howto choose the appropriate definition for a word thathas multiple meanings.When working from misin-terpreted definitions,the sentences students createare often unfortunate and frustrating to read.  \nHow can teachers more effectively teachmeaning vocabulary?Studies show that wordsshould be processed deeply and repeatedly by stu-dents(Mason,Stahl,Au,&Herman,2003;NICHD,2000).Words are typically learned grad-ually(Baumann et al.,2003),and the more actively  \nand deeply students process words,the better theylearn them(Blachowicz &Fisher,2000;Stahl &Fairbanks,1986).Activities using words in games,connecting words,and manipulating words cre-atively result in excellent student learning(Beck etal.,2002).When students are having fun,they aremotivated to learn.  \n## Ways to introduce words\n\nThe task of learning words is large and impor-tant,so why not make it fun,interactive,andempowering as well?Two word introduction strate-gies that foster engaged learning are SemanticImpressions and Word Expert Cards.  \nSemantic Impressions  \nIn this strategy,originally called StoryImpressions(McGinley &Denner,1987),studentsinternalize meanings by using words in a certainorder to compose their own story before they read apublished story.To do this,the teacher chooses keywords from a story or book chapter and lists themin the order(or approximate order)they appear inthe published story.Try to choose words that arecentral to the plot,for these are the ones 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