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The Vocabulary Playbook
By: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Students develop vocabulary when teachers make it a priority—it’s that simple. This resource abounds with dynamic word-learning activities for any content area.
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781071894309
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2023
- Page Count: 184
- Publication date: April 18, 2023
Price: $39.95
For Instructors
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- Companion Website
- A framework for vocabulary instruction
- An Introduction on how to use The Vocabulary Playbook
- Engaged: Teaching Students to Drive Their Learning webinar
- Teaching Vocabulary webinar
- Vocabulary: How to Use Direct Instruction and Model Word Solving
- What Students Need From Us to Fight Fake News webinar
Description
Concepts, conversation, collaboration—vocabulary instruction is so much more than lists of words.
More is more when it comes to students’ vocabulary knowledge, and in The Vocabulary Playbook, educators in K-12 get ideas for transforming all children into curious, capable word learners. The key? Put away the word-list mindset, and embrace active modeling, peer work, and independent practice.
Five modules offer direct instruction and effective routines that show how to:
- Select and teach only the most high-utility, transferable words that are ripe for discussion
- Use direct instruction to model word-solving in each content area
- Teach morphology in ways that invite students to apply understandings in reading, writing, talk, and listening
- Turn academic word-learning into a relevant experience with peer collaboration activities
- Create a culture of word consciousness by emphasizing concepts, modeling curiosity, and offering “low-risk” routines that make it okay to not yet know
Intentional vocabulary instruction is critical in every grade, and in every content area. With The Vocabulary Playbook, your approach is now tactical, transparent, and fun. Whether you are an administrator executing a school-wide plan or a teacher eager for practical strategies, this is the book that will help students build academic success—word by word.
Author(s)
Douglas Fisher
Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association William S. Grey citation of merit and an Exemplary Leader award from the Conference on English Leadership of NCTE. He has published numerous articles on teaching and learning as well as books such as The Teacher Clarity Playbook, PLC+, Visible Learning for Literacy, Comprehension: The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading, How Tutoring Works, and How Learning Works. Doug loves being an educator and hopes to share that passion with others.
Nancy Frey
Table of Contents
Introduction
Module 1: Make It Intentional: A Framework for Vocabulary Instruction
Module 2: Make It Transparent: How to Use Direct Instruction and Model Word Solving
Module 3 Make It Transferrable: How to Harness the Power of Morphology
Module 4: Make It Useable: How to Build Academic Vocabulary Through Peer Collaboration
Module 5: Make It Personal: How to Promote Independence and Word Consciousness Among Students
Module 6: Make Sure They Know: Assessing Word Knowledge
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“The Vocabulary Playbook raises the bar. The authors have captured why word learning is an inescapable part of every educator’s professional work. This indispensable book belongs on the desk of every teacher educator, classroom teacher, and in the collection of every preservice teacher. I absolutely love this book!”Patricia A. Edwards, Ph.D.
Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
“With a focus on vocabulary instruction that incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, The Vocabulary Playbook shares tried-and-true strategies that will improve student vocabulary while embedding instruction into the fabric of a classroom and school-wide culture.”Andy Schoenborn
co-author of Creating Confident Writers