35 Strategies For Developing Content Area Vocabulary

This book offers teachers concrete directives for addressing vocabulary instruction in content area lessons. Strategy presentation is categorized in four explicit ways; preparing to learn words, building word knowledge, appying word knowledge or encouraging word learning. Teachers utilizing these strategies will become more precise in their instruction and better meet the needs of ALL students including English Learners because student achievement is dependent on their mastery of the specialized vocabulary related to various content area disciplines and is highly correlated to their reading comprehension. MARKET: Grade 4-12 Teachers