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Inside Words
Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Grades 4-12
We've learned a lot in recent years about the important role vocabulary plays in making meaning, yet many teachers still struggle with vocabulary instruction that goes beyond weekly word lists. Effective vocabulary instruction is particularly vital in the content areas, where the specialized language used by “insiders” often creates a barrier to understanding for those new to the subjects.
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We've learned a lot in recent years about the important role vocabulary plays in making meaning, yet many teachers still struggle with vocabulary instruction that goes beyond weekly word lists. Effective vocabulary instruction is particularly vital in the content areas, where the specialized language used by “insiders” often creates a barrier to understanding for those new to the subjects. In Inside Words, Janet Allen merges recent research and key content-area teaching strategies to...read more
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Table of Contents
- Instructional Strategies and the Tools That Support Them
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Concept Circles
- Concept Ladder
- Concepts and Vocabulary: Categories and Labels
- Contextual Redefinition
- Dictoglos
- Focused Cloze
- Frayer Model
- Frequent Contact
- "I'm Thinking of a Word..."
- I Spy: A Word Scavenger Hunt
- Lead
- List-Group-Label
- Possible Questions
- Possible Sentences
- Previewing Content Vocabulary
- Semantic Feature Analysis
- Semantic Mapping
- Survival of the Fittest
- Think-Pair-Share: Collaborate for Understanding
- Vocab-O-Gram
- Word Sort
- Word Walls
- Appendix