Type JournalArticle
Date 2005
Volume 2
Number 1
Tags nonfiction, language learning, vocabulary, 75 in 2019
Journal Insights on Learning Disabilities
Pages 33--45

Effective Vocabulary Instruction

At first-grade, high-performing students know about twice as many words as low-performing students, but that differential gets magnified each year, resulting in high-performing 12th grade students knowing about four times as many words as the low-performing 12th graders (Hart & Risley, 1995).

Name Role
Joan Sedita Author