Reasons why vocabulary knowledge in reading the ‘great predictor of school success’ according to Reutzel and Cooter’s text

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Reasons why vocabulary knowledge in reading the ‘great predictor of school success’ according to Reutzel and Cooter’s text
Reutzel and Cooter (2015) maintain that children who enter school with a large vocabulary have a better chance of success than children who have language deprived. According to CITATION YIL11 \l 1033 (YILDIRIM, YILDIZ, & ATEŞ, 2011), there is a general assumption that the vocabularies that a reader has do not only affect their lives but they also impact other people’s experiences. Studies further indicate that readers use their vocabularies to link between the writers’ content and their prior concept and develop a comprehension process. Besides, research shows that preschool experience forms an essential knowledge base that shape readers’ comprehension process. Hence, readers with rich knowledge about text have a better chance of comprehending academic contents. YILDIRIM, YILDIZ, and ATEŞ (2011) further indicate that like prior knowledge, vocabulary also impacts readers’ ability to understand and achieve specific levels of success. The finding is founded on the transactional reading model, which maintains that learners respond to texts based on their experiences and the experience of other people. “In this process, the reader’s experiences and connections between new words and concepts are very important to explain the comprehension structure (p.1544).”
The three tiers of Vocabulary and the kinds of words in each level
According to CITATION Hut08 \l 1033 (Hutton & CCC-SLP, 2008), vocabularies comprise of receptive vocabularies, which are words that people understand when they read or hear them and expressive vocabularies which consist of written and spoken words. People develop their vocabularies from what they read and by picking up words from what they hear as well as from direct instructions from tutors and other professionals.
Tier one comprises majorly of the basic vocabularies and words. These kinds of words are usually unambiguous and do not require addit...