Vocabulary Instruction

Description

New and updated features of this title

• NEW: Separate chapters for the major disciplines/subjects (English/Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, Art/Music/Physical Education, and Career and Technical Education) include adapted activities and strategies for each discipline.
• REVISED: ESL chapter includes a strong new multilingual focus, reflecting the most recent research and instructional lens in the field of multilingualism.
• NEW: Strategies align to the Common Core Standards, addressing English Language Arts, Mathematical Practice, and Next Generation Science Standards.
• NEW: Format for presenting the strategies, activities and assessments now includes purpose, steps, and for many activities and strategies, modifications and extensions.
• NEW: PDToolkit online resource includes helpful videos of vocabulary instruction in action, interactive PDFs of the appendix material, and additional downloadable activities.
• NEW: At-a-glance Activity Selection Charts in each chapter help teachers match specific activities and strategies to what they want their students to know about words and concepts.

Hallmark features of this title

• A focus on context-based vocabulary instruction includes reading and writing activities that exercise vocabulary and conceptual knowledge in every chapter.
• Effective, engaging, word-specific general and domain-specific vocabulary activities ensure the depth and breadth of exploration in important concepts across all disciplines.
• The generative morphology approach supports teachers in identifying and teaching these elements in both general academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
• Realistic, classroom-based vignettes and examples show how vocabulary instruction applies to each discipline.
• Differentiated instruction is presented and supported with examples as an invaluable tool for helping teachers reach every student.

Vocabulary Instruction: Word Study for Middle and Secondary Students (formerly titled Vocabulary Instruction: Words Their Way™ for Middle and Secondary Students) provides invaluable tools for teachers to share with your students that will enable them to learn thousands of words independently. With an emphasis on developing your students’ word consciousness, this comprehensive resource addresses context-based, word-specific, and generative morphology instruction, empowering you to teach vocabulary your way.

The 3rd Edition features separate chapters for each of the major discipline/subject areas, a revised ESL chapter, strategies aligned to the Common Core Standards and more.

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