1st Edition
Infusing Vocabulary Into the Reading-Writing Workshop A Guide for Teachers in Grades K-8
Contents
Meet the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1: Exposure
Chapter 2: Exploration
Chapter 3: Engagement
Chapter 4: Energy
Appendix A: Balanced Literacy and the Reading-Writing Workshop
Appendix B: The Coxhead List: The Academic Word List and Spanish Cognates,
Organized by Frequency
Appendix C: The Zwier List: Basic Toolkit of Academic Vocabulary, Organized by Purpose
Appendix D: Analysis of 40 Latin and Greek Roots for Mini-Lessons
Biography
Amy Benjamin is a national education consultant and author of twelve books on teaching literacy, including Infusing Grammar Into the Writer’s Workshop with Barbara Golub. Before becoming a consultant, she was an award-winning English teacher in Montrose, New York.
"As educators move beyond their first year or so in the workshop model, they are often looking for ways to expand upon what they have been doing. This book will allow them to incorporate vocabulary instruction into the language arts instruction model they have been using. Good teachers know that vocabulary instruction is not very successful in the worksheet model that has been around for the last few decades. It is nice to see a text that moves away from it and incorporates it into a reading/writing model that many are using. It is obvious that the author has spent significant time in a classroom." – Erin Keane, Taipei American School
