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The Best Practice For Teaching Vocabulary
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The Best Practice For Teaching Vocabulary

January 3, 2020April 17, 2022 speechinthecity Comments Off on The Best Practice For Teaching Vocabulary

Best practice for teaching new vocabulary is…⁣⁣
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80% core AND 20% fringe vocabulary according to research by Bean A., Cargill L., & Lyle S. (2019).⁣
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I had a big “aha” movement in March wherein I realized one of the little ones I am working with was not progressing as fast as I would have liked her to in speech therapy. If you know me, you know I try my best to be research-based with therapy approach to do what I think is best practice for the kids I work with. ⁣⁣
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I was thinking and thinking what to do to help “hook” her into AAC. Then it dawned on me I WAS MISSING THE 20 PERCENT FRINGE VOCABULARY! I had been so caught up on teaching her core words that I missed the fridge vocabulary that motivated her to use those core words 🤦‍♀️ Luckily she picked those fridge words up rather quickly (phew)⁣⁣
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I’m pointing out my teaching error because there has been a HUGE emphasis on learning and implementing core words lately, which is AWESOME 👏 and NEEDED but let’s not forget those 20% fridge words too! ⁣⁣
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Definitions⁣⁣
Core Words: Words that make up most of speech across the lifespan consisting of mainly verbs, pronouns (ex. Go, Stop, Help) ⁣⁣
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Fringe Words: Nouns and types of words that are used less frequently and mostly in context of an event or situation (ex. Ball, Book, Red) ⁣
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Reference⁣
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Bean A., Cargill L., & Lyle S. (2019).⁣
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https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2019_ajslp-18-0041⁣

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