Rationale for Robust Vocabulary Instruction. Choosing Words to Teach. Introducing Vocabulary. Developing Vocabulary in the Earliest Grades. Developing Vocabulary in the Later Grades. Making the Most of Natural Contexts. Enriching the Verbal Environment. Appendices: A. Text Talk Books and Vocabulary Words. B. Books for a Lively Verbal Environment.
Isabel L. Beck, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Education in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She has conducted research and published widely in the areas of decoding, vocabulary, and comprehension. Her contributions have been acknowledged by awards from the International Reading Association, the National Reading Conference, and the American Federation of Teachers, and she is an elected member of the National Academy of Education. Margaret G. McKeown, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh. Her research on reading comprehension and vocabulary has been published extensively in outlets for both researcher and practitioner audiences. Dr. McKeown is a recipient of the Dissertation of the Year Award from the International Reading Association and a National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship. Before her career in research, she taught elementary school. Linda Kucan, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Instruction and Learning at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. In addition to vocabulary instruction, her research interests include classroom talk about texts and the design of meaningful and motivating tasks to support comprehension of text.
'This little book is a gem. It shows how teachers can teach word
meanings so powerfully that students of all ages will be able to
grasp an author's meaning or communicate their own more
effectively. The book offers a well-organized and first-rate plan
for teaching vocabulary, presented by a team of researchers with a
genuine grasp for the practical.' - Timothy Shanahan, Center for
Literacy, University of Illinois at Chicago
'This book succinctly addresses the challenges of teaching and
developing vocabulary, providing research-bases,
clearly-spelled-out strategies and many, many rich examples. It
gives teachers the tools they need to effectively increase
students' vocabularies. Reflecting the author's own expertise with
words, the book is written clearly enough for undergraduates, yet
has a level of depth that will lend new insights to even the most
advanced student of language and literacy. This book should be
required reading in teacher and reading specialist preparation
programs and should be used in in-service programs with reading,
language arts, and English teachers as well as with content area
teachers. If the strategies and suggestions offered in this book
were widely and intensely implemented, we would see significant
increases in student's verbal abilities and reading comprehension
scores.' - John J. Pikulski, School of Education, University of
Delaware
'Bringing Words to Life lives up to its title. It made me want to
gather a group of kids immediately, so I could start putting these
sensible, practical, novel, and intriguing ideas about building
vocabulary into practice. Beck, McKeown, and Kucan show how much
fun learning words and teaching words can be. Every early childhood
and elementary teacher should have this book on their bedside table
for inspirational reading.' - Catherine E. Snow, Graduate School of
Education, Harvard University
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