When students memorize a definition for a vocabulary test and never use, read, or hear the word in context, does the word really have any meaning to them?

Students with a good memory will do great on a vocabulary test if it is full of matching words to definitions, but those same students will struggle to comprehend a text when these higher level vocabulary words are being used and they are not familiar with seeing them within a real situation, also known as context.

Welcome to episode 15 of the Upper Elementary Simplified podcast.  In this episode, host Danna Rodebush discusses the importance of teaching vocabulary in context.

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