Intro; Half Title; Publisher Note; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction to the Book Series; Chapter Two Connecting the Research on Academic Vocabulary and Discourse; Chapter Three Practical Application in the Classroom Selecting Words to Teach; Chapter Four Fostering Literacy With Vocabulary Teaching Words; Chapter Five Vocabulary Instruction During Reading; Chapter Six Vocabulary Assessment and Teaching Vocabulary After Reading; Chapter Seven Conclusions, Challenges, and Connections; Epilogue: The Vision
Summary
By now it's a given: if we're to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today's content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher's need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language. The subject of this volume is vocabulary. Here, Margarita Calderon reveals how vocabulary is best taught as
