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VIP: Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Achievement and English Language Development

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Intervention Details

Subject

English Language Arts

Academic Program

English as a Second Language (ESL) Program

Duration

1 week

Grades

4, 5, 6

Personnel

General Education Teacher

Intervention Summary

VIP is a curriculum that targets the vocabulary needs of English-language learners in bilingual and mainstream classrooms. The program includes detailed lesson plans, quasi-scripted lesson guides, overhead transparencies, worksheets, homework assignments, and all necessary reading assignment texts. On Mondays, learner students are given the weekly reading assignment in their native language to preview before it is introduced in English on the following day. On Tuesdays, the teacher leads whole-group lessons to review the text and define the target vocabulary. On Wednesdays, teachers divide the students into heterogeneous language groups to complete two cloze activities. On Thursdays, teachers again divide the students into small groups to complete word association, synonym/antonym, and semantic feature analysis activities. Then, each Friday, teachers lead activities that cover a range of topics including analysis of root words and knowledge of multiple meanings of words.

Statistical Finding Summary

No statistically significant effect on reading achievement

Positive effect on English language development

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2006). Vocabulary Improvement Program for English Language Learners and Their Classmates (VIP). Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/326.

Data Sample by Population

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The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.