Vocabulary and Word Study for American History

Description

Vocabulary and Word Study for American History: The World Before 1600 to American Imperialism (1890-1920) (formerly titled Words Their Way™) is a practical professional resource that provides middle and secondary level American history teachers with the tools you need to teach students to use academic vocabulary and language to read, write, and think like historians. It shows how to engage in history to ignite student debates over topics or issues; help students organize domain-specific vocabulary words into ways that make sense; use general academic vocabulary and language to learn about the past; and tap into the powerful roots of English to help students become independent life-long word learners.

Hallmark features of this title

• Immediately engage with history. Motivating activities such as taking a stand, ignite student debates over contentious topics or issues, helping them connect history to their own life experiences.
• Help students see both the forest and the trees of history. Big picture frames/graphics for each unit help students organize the domain-specific vocabulary words into patterns, themes, and overarching categories that make sense to them.
• Incorporate academic vocabulary into content reading, writing, and learning through the use of core activities. Students get multiple opportunities to effectively use words as tools for reading, writing, thinking and discussing ideas.
• Teach using material that matches directly with the curriculum. 12 American history units parallel eras in American history and the related chapters usually found in American history textbooks.
• Get strategies for teaching domain-specific vocabulary. Each unit follows a 4-step process for teaching domain-specific vocabulary.
• Put additional practical help to use immediately in the classroom. The appendices include ready-to-use, blank templates of history teachers’ favorite go-to graphic organizers and vocabulary banks.

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