One evidence-based practice to increase students’ vocabulary, knowledge, and comprehension is a Content-Rich English Language Arts approach to instruction.
In this activity students describe a picture, without saying what the picture is. The other students participating will use their knowledge of the words used to describe the picture to guess what it is.
Let’s Know! is a supplemental curriculum designed to develop comprehension skills, such as vocabulary, text structure knowledge, inference, and comprehension monitoring, over the course of a school year.