What instructional strategies do teachers use to teach vocabulary development?
These three research questions can be addressed together. Six more instructional strategies describe how teachers taught phonics, spelling, comprehension, and vocabulary development. Strategy 4: Pictorial Illustration Pictorial illustration is the use of blackboard drawings, diagrams, sketches, match-stick figures, photographs, maps, and textbook illustrations. These are used for presenting words and structures that stand for concrete ideas. In Class I, illustrations in the reader are used for the words cake, snake, gate, face, table, chair, and crayon. After children are guided in reading a story called “Good Morning,” which presents two children greeting each other when arriving at school, the comprehension questions require the matching of illustrations. Children need to identify Manan’s yellow bag and Anu’s pink bag. While some of the illustrations look very similar to what might appear in other parts of the world, such as a toy train or yo-yo, many were uniquely related to life in
