Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary
Published on 3. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
78 pages
978-1-57110-408-3 (ISBN)
Description
Vocabulary teaching often becomes an isolated activity rather than an integral part of our overall teaching. When this happens, students seldom internalize those words or incorporate them into their writing or speaking. In Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Janet Allen provides strategies that will help students learn new words, become more conscious of words, and increase competence in knowing when and how to use words.
Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary centers on four components of effective vocabulary instruction-providing rich and varied language experiences, teaching individual words, teaching word-learning strategies, and fostering word consciousness-and provides tools to develop effective instruction for each component. Janet offers advice on teaching vocabulary across the curriculum, exploring how best to teach general academic vocabulary, discipline-specific vocabulary, topic-specific vocabulary, and passage-critical vocabulary.
Like its popular predecessors, Tools for Content Literacy and More Tools for Content Literacy, this spiral-bound, tabbed flipchart offers instant access to succinct descriptions, practical strategies, and manageable assessments. From word logs to word webs, from naming and knowing text features to using internal and external context clues, Janet provides teachers with tools that will help them save time and be more flexible and confident in meeting students' needs.
Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary centers on four components of effective vocabulary instruction-providing rich and varied language experiences, teaching individual words, teaching word-learning strategies, and fostering word consciousness-and provides tools to develop effective instruction for each component. Janet offers advice on teaching vocabulary across the curriculum, exploring how best to teach general academic vocabulary, discipline-specific vocabulary, topic-specific vocabulary, and passage-critical vocabulary.
Like its popular predecessors, Tools for Content Literacy and More Tools for Content Literacy, this spiral-bound, tabbed flipchart offers instant access to succinct descriptions, practical strategies, and manageable assessments. From word logs to word webs, from naming and knowing text features to using internal and external context clues, Janet provides teachers with tools that will help them save time and be more flexible and confident in meeting students' needs.
Reviews / Votes
"When teachers across the content areas put the ideas in Janet Allen's Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary to work, their students will feel as if they truly own their vocabulary and want to share and celebrate it." - MiddleWeb (Teacher-Reviewer Linda Biondi)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Portland
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-57110-408-3 (9781571104083)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Janet Allen is an international consultant recognized for her comprehensive work in reading education. After teaching reading and English for nearly twenty years in Maine, USA Janet relocated to the University of Central Florida, USA where she taught reading, writing, and English education courses. She is now a full-time researcher, writer, and consultant. Janet's previous titles with Stenhouse Publishers include More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy (2008); Inside Words (2007); Tools for Teaching Content Literacy (2004); On the Same Page (2002); Yellow Brick Roads (2000); and Words, Words, Words (1999).