Freddy speaks with the hosts of the podcast Literacy Talks about how small changes in teaching vocabulary and text complexity can lead to big differences in students’ literacy growth.
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FYI for Kids Literacy Talks host Lindsay Kemeny says: “I love that it was just one sheet—kind of like a little magazine spread on the topic that we could read. And my students love that.”
Core Vocabulary Word Maps Supports students’ vocabularies through word maps of three kinds: semantic, word families, and multiple-meaning words. Each type of CVP Word maps represents a different form of the critical knowledge represented by the 2,500 word families.