Vocabulary

                           In my experience, vocabulary can be very challenging for students to understand. When I was in elementary school we only used dictionaries to look up vocabulary word's definitions. That was always so boring and did not make vocabulary interesting. During my tutoring session my student spends the most time trying to understand the vocabulary words. It is definitely the part of the session that we spend the most time on. Students need to be constantly building their vocabulary. It is good to make connections that are deeper for the student than just the vocabulary word definition. If a student does not understand the vocabulary that is in the text they are reading, they will be less motivated to read it because they do not understand it. Teaching vocabulary works the best by using many different strategies. The more ways a student can see the vocabulary words used in different context then the more they will recognize and understand the words.