The British and American Word Families Project (BAWF): A New Way to Explore English Word Families
English has hundreds of thousands of words, but students don’t have to learn each one separately. Words belong to families that share meaning and structure. A student who knows act already has a foothold on action, active, activity, and reactivate. Teachers and researchers have long wanted to know which word families are worth teaching and how often their members appear in what students read. The recently launched British and American Word Families (BAWF) Project is designed to answer these questions.
Are we making vocabulary instruction more complicated than it needs to be? And are some of our longstanding instructional practices actually limiting students' opportunities to become skilled readers? Dr. Freddy Hiebert explores these questions and more with Dr. Staci Bain. Click here to listen»
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