A Teacher’s Guide to Vocabulary Development Across the Day: The Classroom Essentials Series

by Katie Wood Ray, Katie Wood Ray (Editor)

You probably know that having young children memorize new words or relegating vocabulary instruction to one time of day is not the way to go, but you may not know what else to do to support students' vocabulary development. In this guide, Tanya Wright shows you how to make word learning more meaningful and engaging as you incorporate teaching about words across the day. Young children love to learn and use new words; the key is to tap into their natural curiosity and excitement. Tanya shows you how to create opportunities for children to think about and use words in meaningful contexts during read aloud, content-area learning, reading instruction, and writing instruction-all day long! Classroom videos of teachers and children learning about words bring the ideas to life, and a friendly "What We Know" feature highlights important research that informs the practice.

136 pages, Paperback

Published October 13, 2020

Reviews

[Jill Culmo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read and provides very practical tips. I like how the research that backs up the ideas are included in the margin. Great student work samples.

[Emily L · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good teaching guide to including vocab in the classroom, a little difficult to read, the pages are very busy. Geared to K-3

[Lynn Cutting · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good reminders about teaching vocabulary.

[Annie Petrozzelli Spear · Rating 5 out of 5]

Check out my review from the Michigan Reading Journal: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/mrj/vol...

[Heather Hayen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great research and ideas for how to improve vocabulary.