Abstract of

Struggling Readers
What if They Can Say the Words but Don't Know What They Mean?

Pat Cunningham

Vocabulary is critical to reading comprehension. Children differ greatly in the size of their meaning vocabularies at school entrance, and those with small vocabularies tend to add fewer words than those with larger vocabularies. Included in this column are some strategies to add more meaning-vocabulary development to classroom instruction.

Abstract from Cunningham, P. (2006, April). What if They Can Say the Words but Don't Know What They Mean?. The Reading Teacher, 59(7), 708–711. doi: 10.1598/RT.59.7.11