Developing young children's vocabulary is essential for later reading success; thus, early childhood classrooms require a comprehensive vocabulary approach that teaches academic vocabulary. Yet even providing young children with child‐friendly definitions of sophisticated words can be a challenge. First, the authors outline the components of a comprehensive vocabulary program for young children. Second, they review research evidence on the importance of direct vocabulary instruction and ways to increase children's word consciousness and interest in learning “amazing” academic words. Next, they turn to practical suggestions of ways to select and teach new vocabulary. They describe ways to increase word consciousness that extend excitement for word learning. Finally, they demonstrate that early childhood educators can improve the quantity and quality of their vocabulary instruction when using a comprehensive vocabulary program the features routine shared book reading, direct vocabulary instruction, and supports for word consciousness.

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言归正传：有关教导年轻学生学术词汇的建议

培养幼儿的词汇量对于以后的阅读成功至关重要。因此，幼儿教室需要一种全面的词汇教学方法来教授学术词汇。然而，即使向幼儿提供对儿童友好的复杂单词定义也可能是一个挑战。首先，作者概述了针对幼儿的全面词汇计划的组成部分。其次，他们回顾了有关直接词汇教学的重要性以及提高儿童单词意识和学习“惊人”学术单词兴趣的方法的研究证据。接下来，他们转向有关如何选择和教授新词汇的实用建议。他们描述了增强单词意识的方法，这些方法扩展了单词学习的乐趣。最后，