1st Edition
Inside Words Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Grades 4-12
By Janet Allen
Copyright 2007
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Vocabulary instruction is critical in any classroom, yet how do teachers go beyond weekly word lists and empower their students to make meaning from these words? In Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Grades 4-12 , author Janet Allen merges research and content-area teaching strategies to help teachers show students how to understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks... Read more
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
Biography
Janet Allen is one of the most prominent and outspoken literacy advocates in the country. A former elementary school teacher and university instructor, hundreds of teachers attend her seminars each year. Her books Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 and Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading have been praised by elementary and secondary school teachers, education professors, adult literacy advocates, and ESL instructors. Dr. Allen lives in Orlando, Florida.
