Shell 50128 Strategies for Building Academic Vocabulary in Language Arts

Boost students' language arts vocabulary with easy-to-implement effective strategies. Sample lessons using each strategy use vocabulary words from standards-based, content-specific units of study. Each strategy also includes suggestions for differentiating instruction. Each notebook includes 25 research-based strategies, differentiation suggestions for each strategy, assessment strategies, sample word lists including both specialized content and general academic words, and parent letters in both English and Spanish. Also included is a Teacher Resource CD with PDFs of resource pages, word lists, assessment pages and parent letters. Resource is designed for children in kindergarten through eighth-grade.