In what context?
In chapter 3 of Tap Click Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens reading expert Daniel Willingham is quoted saying "It won't work to to teach in a vacuum." and "Teaching content is teaching reading" I interpret him as saying that students need to have some understanding of the content they are reading in order to read it effectively. Good vocabulary would seem to be one way of addressing this. In this same chapter the authors discuss how lower income students and those who do not speak English at home are not exposed to the same level of vocabulary and content of their higher income and English speaking peers. I was always told to look up words that I did not understand. In my younger years with little technology, reading my homework with no dictionary, it became very difficult to achieve the task of understanding everything I was reading. I can't help but think that technology can help with this. Now when I do not understand a word or need a deepe...