Academic Language Mastery: Vocabulary in Context

✍ Scribed by Margarita Espino Calderon, Ivannia Soto

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 97
• Series: Academic Language Mastery
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

By now it’s a given: if we’re to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today’s content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher’s need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language. The subject of this volume is vocabulary. Here, Margarita Calderon reveals how vocabulary is best taught as a tool for completing and constructing more complex messages.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction to the Book Series
2. Connecting the Research on Academic Vocabulary and Discourse
3. Practical Application in the Classroom: Selecting Words to Teach
4. Fostering Literacy With Vocabulary: Teaching Words
5. Vocabulary Instruction During Reading
6. Vocabulary Assessment and Teaching Vocabulary After Reading
7. Conclusions, Challenges, and Connections
Epilogue: The Vision
References
Index