Learn to assess and enhance your vocabulary skills!

 

Finally teachers have access to a professional development series, Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading, written specifically to guide them in sharpening their understanding of the five key components to Reading First--phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. This book focuses on vocabulary, but each volume in the five-part series addresses one key component and presents friendly tips and strategies that teachers can take right into the classroom.

 

How to make Vocabulary work for you!

• Each chapter offers recommendations for incorporating appropriate reading materials, fostering productive home-school connections, and promoting students' desire to learn to read and write.
• Read current key research studies and findings and learn about their implications for classroom practice.
• Discover how to evaluate your current practices and create concrete plans for change.
• Start a learning community or book club and share your knowledge with colleagues.
• Access useful resources and links to extend and enrich your own learning beyond the classroom.

 

Teachers rave about A Professional Development Guide to Vocabulary!

"This book is one that will be used from cover to cover.  [T]he book is a wealth of actual activities to use for vocabulary growth.  What teacher or staff development instructor wouldn't want all this information at their fingertips?"

 --Cathy Taylor, Reading First literacy coach, Stewart County Elementary School, Lumpkin, GA

 

 

Also available in the Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading Series:

A Professional Development Guide to Phonemic Awareness

©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45628-6

A Professional Development Guide to Phonics

©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45630-8

A Professional Development Guide to Fluency

©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45629-4

A Professional Development Guide to Comprehension

©2008 ISBN: 0-205-45627-8