This activity produced successful results in McKeown and Beck's research:To promote multiple experiences with new word meanings, students are rewarded for reporting a word studied in the classroom when they see or hear it outside of school, or they are given points if they use a meaning vocabulary focus word in their own writing.The activity has been called
A. promoting out-of-class extensions.
B. using vicarious experiences to increase knowledge of word meanings.
C. learning words from oral language encounters.
D. providing exposure to multiple meanings of words.
A
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