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Marzano, Robert J.; Marzano, Jana S. – 1989
A study was conducted to answer the question, "What are the basic words in a list of words kindergarten through sixth grade students will frequently encounter in their reading?" The study was limited to the words the students would encounter in their textbooks (including basals). A corpus of 7,230 words was then analyzed by two raters to…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education, Reading Research, Reading Strategies
Marzano, Robert J.; Marzano, Jana S. – 1988
Intended for elementary school teachers, researchers, and materials developers, this book presents a cluster approach to vocabulary instruction, in which words are taught in semantically related groups. Over 7,000 words from elementary school textbooks have been organized into 61 instructional clusters, each containing two levels of subclusters…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Processes