Vocabulary can be divided into 3 tiers. (Tier I: general voc…
Vocabulary can be divided into 3 tiers. (Tier I: general vocabulary, Tier 2: specialized vocabulary, and Tier 3: technical vocabulary). To which tier should a teacher devote the most time and why? Explain this to a colleague who insists in teaching Tier 3 words by having students look them up in the dictionary and then write their own sentence with the word.
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