Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction | 
 enlarge | Authors: Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. Mckeown, Linda Kucan
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 3836
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 148
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1572307536
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.1071
EAN: 9781572307537
ASIN: 1572307536
Publication Date: March 20, 2002
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Exciting and engaging vocabulary instruction can set students on the path to a lifelong fascination with words. This book provides a research-based framework and practical strategies for vocabulary development with children from the earliest grades through high school. The authors emphasize instruction that offers rich information about words and their uses and enhances students' language comprehension and production. Teachers are guided in selecting words for instruction; developing student-friendly explanations of new words; creating meaningful learning activities; and getting students involved in thinking about, using, and noticing new words both within and outside the classroom. Many concrete examples, sample classroom dialogues, and exercises for teachers bring the material to life. Helpful appendices include suggestions for trade books that help children enlarge their vocabulary and/or have fun with different aspects of words.
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 Effective and Engaging Vocabulary Instruction March 15, 2008
This book is an outstanding resource for any teacher interested in expanding student vocabularies. It clearly details the selection high utility words and includes a table of titles with word lists for each book. Each suggested instructional technique is clearly modeled and all text is written in a narrative style that is easy to understand.
A very good book! February 14, 2008
This is one of the books I bought for my Education (Reading and Writing) class. It's really good, both the theory and examples. A must-buy for K6 teacher ^^
 Bringing Words to Life November 8, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book does a great job of explaining the whys and hows of teaching vocabulary to children. It is a great read for teachers of any grade level or subject area. It is not a very exciting read for those outside of educational professions.
Bringing Words to Life by Isabel Beck October 17, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book on teaching vocabulary to all grade levels. It is check full of ideas you can implement immediately with just enough philosophy to make the strategies understandable. I highly recommend it!!
 Bringing Words to Life July 22, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
While I appreciated the premise of the research outlined in this book, and have no doubt the approach recommended would be effective, I question the practicality for application in a classroom. It seems that it would take a considerable amount of planning and cumbersome documentation particularly with younger children or multiage classes. I plan to try to implement some of the suggestions and like the idea of working to help children establish their own definitions, moving away from traditional dictionary definitions that are only confusing for young students.
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