Word wise and content rich, grades 7-12
Subtitle: five essential steps to teaching academic vocabulary
By: Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey.
Contributors: Frey, Nancy, 1959-
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780325013824
Subjects: Vocabulary -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Language arts -- Correlation with content subjects
Description: "How do you teach students the words that are crucial to unlocking the concepts in your content area? Until now "assign, define, test" has been the default strategy. But with Word Wise and Content Rich, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey bring vocabulary in out of the cold and into the heart of daily classroom practice in English, math, science, and history." "Word Wise and Content Rich offers a five-part framework for teaching vocabulary that's tailored to the needs of adolescent learners yet mindful of the demands on content-area teachers. Grounded in current research, this framework gives students the multiple encounters necessary to lock in the meaning of new words forever."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.