{"id":1031,"date":"2016-11-20T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2016-11-20T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T10:00:47","slug":"importance-of-teaching-on-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2016\/11\/20\/importance-of-teaching-on-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Importance of Teaching on Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vocabulary is organic. After we learn to speak, we use words; next we read <em>and<\/em> use words. I addressed this on October 2nd this year, but I keep thinking about it and how we need to be deliberate in exposing kids to a wide number of specifics naming\u00a0 words.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We need to use specific words for specific objects and ideas.<\/li>\n<li>We need to read to kids above their reading level to expose them to an ever-expanding vocabulary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one idea from Scholastic\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"fullResImage\" src=\"https:\/\/printables.scholastic.com\/content\/stores\/printables\/media\/53\/9780545464253-023_p01_286x316.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Notice it&#8217;s not a list of words. It&#8217;s words used in a variety of ways. It could be a recipe, directions on how to do something new, or even a word search. Keep daily as well as unusual words and ideas in front of kids and they&#8217;ll soak them up.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vocabulary is organic. After we learn to speak, we use words; next we read and use words. I addressed this on October 2nd this year, but I keep thinking about it and how we need to be deliberate in exposing kids to a wide number of specifics naming\u00a0 words. We need to use specific words\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2016\/11\/20\/importance-of-teaching-on-vocabulary\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,259],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-thoughts","category-vocabulary-skills","tag-deliberate-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}