The Bridge of Vocabulary offers the only explicit vocabulary intervention program tied to evidence-based research and curriculum standards and developed for both general and special educators. For a new and digital version, please see the BOV2 page.
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The Bridge of Vocabulary: Evidence-Based Activities for Academic Success
BOV
The Bridge of Vocabulary offers the only explicit vocabulary intervention program tied to evidence-based research and curriculum standards and developed for both general and special educators. For a new and digital version, please see the BOV2 page.Overview
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FAQs
- Age range:
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Preschool through adult
- Qualification level:
- A
The Bridge of Vocabulary applies five practices shown to be essential in teaching vocabulary skills to general and special education students: (1) engage students often with a wide selection of books; (2) enjoy word games and word play; (3) teach word learning strategies; (4) be explicit; and (5) be redundant.
Benefits
- Helps specialists, teachers, and parents systematically plan explicit word encounters.
- Encourages fast mapping and provides slow mappers with extended exposure to vocabulary.
- Demonstrates phonotactic probability and neighborhood density, two important factors in vocabulary growth.
- Incorporates student-friendly definitions that use spoken vocabulary words instead of reading vocabulary words.
- Equally useful for typical students as for ELL students, students with language and learning disabilities, students with complex communication disabilities, and low/high achiever students.
Features
The Bridge of Vocabulary helps educators create linguistic environments that allow students to succeed as listeners, speakers, readers, and writers.
- Includes about 100 activities that target a full range of vocabulary skills and concepts (e.g., listening, speaking, reading, writing, language processing, word play, etc.)
- Proven techniques reviewed and tested by classroom teachers and SLPs.
- A curriculum standard, with explicit teaching instructions.
- Guided and independent practice activities.
The following resources are available for The Bridge of Vocabulary.
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