Teaching Vocabulary 50 Creative Strategies, Grades 6-12

by Tompkins, Gail E.; Blanchfield, Cathy L.; San Joaquin Writing Proj, X

• ISBN13: 9780132405034
• ISBN10: 0132405032
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-08
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This book fills the gap for specific learning needs. It is an entire volume devoted to the time-tested, classroom-proven ideas thatreally workwith elementary, middle, and high school studentsincluding ESL and other students who have a limited vocabulary and few literacy skills. Each strategy has been successfully used by master teachers who participate in the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project, and authentic student feedback is included.With written-in adaptability and grade-level indicators so that users can address their own specific goals in the classroom, this book comprehensively covers: teaching vocabulary correctly, collecting words, discovering definitions, working with meanings, expanding writing vocabulary, investigating word origins, and word play.An obviously valuable tool for educators, this book is especially appropriate for new or future teachers, teachers of ESL and continuing education, and other curriculum planners. Can also be used by parents who wish to enhance their child's home study.

Author Biography

Cathy Blanchfield is a secondary teacher in the Fresno Unified School District in Fresno, CA. She has taught middle and high school students from predominantly low socioeconomic neighborhoods. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.A. in Education, Reading Emphasis, from California State University, Fresno. Cathy serves the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project as a Teacher Consultant and Associate Director.

Gail Tompkins is a professor at California State University, Fresno where she teaches courses in reading and language arts. She is also Director of the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project at CSU Fresno. She is very interested in the history of English and in etymologies of words.

Table of Contents

Robust Vocabulary Instruction

You Will Thank Me For This Some Day

Personal Word Walls

Thematic Word Walls

Vocabulary is Building

Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?

Vocabulary Carousel

Sorting for Success

Vocabulary Squares

Parts of Speech Word Wall

Word Expert

Vocabulary Self-Check

Vocabulary Discussions in Literature Circles

Using Computer Software Tools to Expand Vocabulary

Literary Terms

Vocabulary Tea Party

Whatever Floats Your Boat

Using Meaningful Contexts to Understand Science Vocabulary

Word Associations with Literary Characters

Key Word Collection

Word Posters that Link Key Concepts

Vocabulary Development in the Science Classroom

Sensitizing Students to Shades to Meaning

Connotations

Venerable Teaching

Shades of Meaning

Verbal Tone Charades

How a Writer Paints Mood

Learning the ABC's

Nurturing My Students' Romance With Words

Integrating Verbs into Student Writing

Recipe for Vocabulary Short Story Three Layer Cake

The Excitement of Words

Curriculum-Related Word Banks

Monster Sentences

Don't Read This: It's Taboo

Where in the World?

From Slang to Dictionary Entry

Back to Our Word Roots

Start Your Day with Vocabulary

Word Tree Posters

Linking the Past with the Present

Creating Student Lexicologists

Logocreatology

Curing Homophone Madness

Building Vocabulary and Comprehension through Dramatization

Vocabulary Poetry

Word Clusters

Vocabulary Crosswords

Vocabulary Crib Books

Vocabulary Taboo

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