Vocabulary Instruction in a Remedial Setting

ABSTRACT Six evidence-based principles for remedial vocabulary instruction are developed and described. Implementation of the principles was undertaken by twenty tutors, all of who were experienced classroom teachers, in a university clinical reading program that used one-to-one instruction. Successful strategies and the tutor's reactions are described using three case studies of students from grades two, five and eight.

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