Summary of Secondary School Students with Learning Difficulties in Reading: Vocabulary Development Vocabulary is an important tool for developing a child's reading skills child. Students must understand what the words mean to understand the story as it is presented to them in class. Unfortunately, this skill is rather ignored in middle school and should be taught in elementary school. When these students don't grasp the concept in elementary school and are pushed into middle school without the necessary skills, they fall behind their classmates. Because they lack reading vocabulary skills, these children are usually labeled “learning disabled.” Too often, students read a passage and skip over words they don't understand. However, reading vocabulary skills are essential not only in reading classrooms, but also in all content area classrooms. Vocabulary development should give students the ability to learn the meaning of new words and concepts that are presented to them in their own language. text. Learning this skill will assist students in content area understanding and curriculum. By teaching students about vocabulary development, students will have a reserve of new words, connect the new words with their previous knowledge, gain the ability to comprehend and comprehend text, and ultimately increase students' word knowledge to connect with their understanding and understanding. success. To achieve vocabulary development, before reading the teacher must instruct students on all the prerequisites they need to understand to interpret the text appropriately. This means that the teacher must pull out the most important words as well as those that may be too difficult for the student... halfway through the paper... to become a good reader. Therefore, without some reading ability on the part of students, the scaffolding is unstable. Because of a student's faulty scaffolding, reading does not work cohesively to make the final product a successfully understood story. This worries me. If I feel like they're falling behind on these skills and their other teachers, my peers, aren't teaching them, I will and I'll do my best to make it appropriate for my classroom. Without reading skills, they will face horrible consequences of their problems understanding and comprehending the vocabulary words they see in their textbooks. Works Cited Diane Pedrotty Bryant, J.E. (2001). Iris. Retrieved April 1, 2011, from Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities in Reading" Vocanulary Development: http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/infoBriefs_local/cld/cld_vocabulary