Language: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

The IDEA strategy uses four key components drawn from research that caregivers can easily implement to teach and practice literacy skills when reading to children at home.

Set of IDEA bookmarks

Students can use this checklist to make sure they are properly following all the components of the keyword mnemonics strategy in order to remember the definition of the target vocabulary word.

Keyword Mnemonics Checklist

Help young readers when they encounter unfamiliar word by helping them to look, listen, and think about the word with these questions.

Set of Look, Listen, and Think bookmarks

This guide can be put in every book at home or in the classroom library to help plan new vocabulary and questions you want to include when reading with children in order to facilitate dialogic reading.

Set of Interactive Reading Guide Book Inserts

Guide your thinking, organize your decisions, and create active practice activities related to explicit vocabulary instruction. This resource is divided into the five major aspects of explicit vocabulary instruction and includes guiding questions to ground your planning in evidence-based practices.

Explicit Vocabulary Instruction Template