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Vocabularians: Integrated Word Study in the Middle Grades
Brenda J. Overturf
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Description for Vocabularians: Integrated Word Study in the Middle Grades
Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JNFD; JNLB; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
Building on the ideas developed in Word Nerds: Teaching All Students to Learn and Love Vocabulary, Brenda J. Overturf has updated and energized the recommended practices for middle grades students. Vocabularians is for any educator who wants to help young adolescents increase knowledge and competency with word study while bringing interest, motivation, and even joy to their learning.Brenda takes teachers and administrators inside three middle-level schools where educators are integrating vocabulary instruction across the curriculum. In rural, urban, and suburban settings, she highlights effective ways to develop students' vocabulary skills using art, music, games, technology, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and critical thinking. Vocabularians shows teachers of all content areas how to build word networks, flood the classroom environment with academic vocabulary, and incorporate the three word-solving strategies that researchers have found to be the most important-teaching students how to use context; deciphering words by breaking down prefixes, suffixes, and root words; and using reference materials in authentic ways.By blending current research with real classroom experience and application, Brenda builds on her work with Margot Holmes Smith and Leslie Montgomery and offers an easy-to-implement, customized-to-middle-school resource that will improve instruction and assessment. As one featured seventh grader shared: Vocabulary helps you because the more you know words, the more fluent you can be in reading, the better you can read and write, and the better your writing sounds. There's always going to be a time when you have to sound professional, whether you're applying for a job or anything else. You're just going to have to know how to use a good vocabulary.
Product Details
Publisher
Stenhouse Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
462g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
York, Maine, United States
ISBN
9781625310163
SKU
V9781625310163
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Ref
99-40
About Brenda J. Overturf
Brenda J. Overturf began her career as a classroom teacher, working for eighteen years at the elementary and middle school levels, before she coordinated K-12 reading for Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky. She also served as chair of the M.Ed. in Reading program at the University of Louisville and is a former member of the International Reading Association Board of Directors.While at IRA, she chaired a Common Core State Standards Task Force and continues as chair of the IRA Common Core Standards Committee.Brenda holds an Ed.D. degree with specialty in literacy education from the University of Louisville, and is currently a literacy consultant providing professional development and assistance to schools and districts nationwide. Leslie Montgomery is an intermediate-grades teacher at Atkinson Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Louisville, Kentucky. After beginning her undergraduate degree in California and working for the Homes for the Homeless Residential Camping Program in New York City, Leslie returned to Louisville and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in teaching from the University of Louisville.Leslie is a National Board Certified Teacher in literacy and an alumna of the Kentucky Reading Project and the Louisville Writing Project. She was a recipient of the 2010-2011 Gheens Innovation Award for strategic vocabulary instruction.Leslie has presented with her colleagues on vocabulary instruction at the International Reading Association conference, the Kentucky Reading Association conference, the Kentucky Reading Project, the Louisville Writing Project, and other professional development venues throughout the district. Margot Holmes Smith is a reading and math intervention teacher for fourth and fifth grades at Atkinson Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to becoming an intervention teacher, she taught third and fourth grades at Atkinson.Margot earned a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in teaching from the University of Louisville. Throughout her teaching career, Margot has had the opportunity to participate in the Kentucky Reading Project and the Louisville Writing Project. She has presented with her colleagues at the International Reading Association conference, the Kentucky Reading Association conference, the Kentucky Reading Project, the Louisville Writing Project, and several other schools in the district.She was a recipient of the 2010-2011 Gheens Innovation Award for strategic vocabulary instruction. Margot is currently completing her M.Ed. in reading at the University of Louisville.
Reviews for Vocabularians: Integrated Word Study in the Middle Grades
I started reading Vocabularians and could not put it down! Readers are given a glimpse into middle-level classrooms where the best of collaborative, classroom-based research unfolds to reveal what can happen when teachers across disciplines work together to help students increase their word knowledge. Filled with resources, tools, strategies, students samples, assessments, and examples of inter-disciplinary planning, this is a book that needs to be a part of every PLC.
Janet Allen, author of Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary I started reading Vocabularians and could not put it down!Readers are given a glimpse into middle-level classrooms where the best ofcollaborative, classroom-based research unfolds to reveal what can happen when teachers across disciplines work together to help students increase their word knowledge. Filled with resources, tools, strategies, students samples, assessments, and examples of inter-disciplinary planning, this is a book that needs to be a part of every PLC. Janet Allen, author of Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary I started reading Vocabularians and could not put it down!Readers are given a glimpse into middle-level classrooms where the best ofcollaborative, classroom-based research unfolds to reveal what can happen when teachers across disciplines work together to help students increase their word knowledge. Filled with resources, tools, strategies, students samples, assessments, and examples of inter-disciplinary planning, this is a book that needs to be a part of every PLC. Janet Allen, author of Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary
Janet Allen, author of Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary I started reading Vocabularians and could not put it down!Readers are given a glimpse into middle-level classrooms where the best ofcollaborative, classroom-based research unfolds to reveal what can happen when teachers across disciplines work together to help students increase their word knowledge. Filled with resources, tools, strategies, students samples, assessments, and examples of inter-disciplinary planning, this is a book that needs to be a part of every PLC. Janet Allen, author of Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary I started reading Vocabularians and could not put it down!Readers are given a glimpse into middle-level classrooms where the best ofcollaborative, classroom-based research unfolds to reveal what can happen when teachers across disciplines work together to help students increase their word knowledge. Filled with resources, tools, strategies, students samples, assessments, and examples of inter-disciplinary planning, this is a book that needs to be a part of every PLC. Janet Allen, author of Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary