Vocabulary is fundamental to reading. As elementary students cross over from learning to read into reading to learn, vocabulary knowledge becomes increasingly important. The massive amount of vocabulary a student msut learn precludes large amounts of time spent on any single (Carver 1994, Schwanenflugel et al. 1997), except perhaps for some words that the student will read and write many times over the course of a lifetime. Therefore students must learn vocabulary from text.
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