Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples

Responding to readers' success stories, practical questions, and requests for extended examples, this book picks up where the authors' Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction left off. Beck (professor emerita, education, University of Pittsburgh) presents additional tools, tips, and detailed explanations of questions on which words to teach, when and how to teach them, and how to adapt instruction for English language learners. The authors provide specific instructional sequences, including assessments, for grade K-12, as well as interactive lesson planning resources. Extended examples include full sets of activities around sets of words, for a week's worth of instruction, plus rationales for the decisions of the authors as they developed the activities. Appendices offer a menu of instructional activities that can be used as frameworks for designing instruction around specific sets of words, and lists of books for students at all levels, with recommended words to teach from those books. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Bringing Words to Life has enlivened the classrooms of hundreds of thousands of teachers. Responding to readers' success stories, practical questions, and requests for extended examples, this ideal volume builds on the groundbreaking work of Bringing Words to Life. The authors present additional tools, tips, and detailed explanations of such questions as which words to teach, when and how to teach them, and how to adapt instruction for English language learners. They provide specific instructional sequences, including assessments, for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12, as well as interactive lesson planning resources. Invaluable appendices feature engaging classroom activities and a comprehensive list of children's books and stories with suggested vocabulary for study.