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Word nerds : teaching all students to learn and love vocabulary
Title:
Word nerds : teaching all students to learn and love vocabulary
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Summary:
Word Nerds takes you inside classrooms at a high-poverty urban school and shows how two teachers implement creative, flexible vocabulary instruction that improves their students' word knowledge and confidence, enhances classroom community, and increases achievement.
Year Published:
2013
Physical Description:
vii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
What's the big deal about vocabulary instruction? -- Classrooms that foster word confidence -- Making introductions -- Squeezing the juicy words: adding synonyms and antonyms -- Active vocabulary practice -- Celebrating to validate -- Spreading vocabulary wings -- Learning through assessment.
ISBN:
9781571109545
Publisher:
Portland, Me. : Stenhouse Publishers, [2013]