Are your kindergarteners working with enough vocabulary? Research by Wright and Neuman, and recently published in the Elementary School Journal, concludes that children are not. Specifically, most reading programs expose children to 2 words each week and it is recommended that they are learning 10. You can read a summary of the research here.
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Couldn’t read the entire passage, so don’t have an example of what the curriculum looked like and what if any processes were also used to teach vocabulary such as GLAD.
The research describes reading programs. GLAD is a professional development model. Hope that helps.