Theseactivity books contain ready-to-use activities that make it easy to put McEwan's highly-successful strategies into practice. The strategies and activities will support struggling readers and enhance existing skill to encourage improvement in all students' reading skills.
Vocabulary, Grades 4-8
Because vocabulary has been identified by the National Reading Panel (2000) as one of the critical areas of reading instruction, this book focuses on vocabulary instruction for all students, and especially those whose underdeveloped word knowledge negatively impacts their academic performance. This underperformance is characterized by a partial knowledge of word meanings, confusion of words of similar sound, and limited knowledge of how and when words are typically used. To help at-risk students, several essential instructional factors must be consciously addressed.
This book has been designed to put theory and research into practice and provide students with the targeted and direct vocabulary instruction that they need.
"Word Selection and Definition" provides you, the teacher, with concrete ways to select vocabulary words and plan lessons.
"Take Five" includes presentation techniques so you can make the most of each lesson and provide an atmosphere in which all students will learn.
"Extensive Reading Lessons" focuses on ways for students to improve their vocabulary in a natural way, through reading.
"Vocabulary Instruction Lessons" is dedicated to direct instruction of vocabulary words and contains a multitude of cumulative, sequential activities. These activities should be presented in sequence, as one activity builds on the other.
"Strategy Lessons" provides the "best kept secrets" of good readers. At-risk learners and struggling readers should be taught these strategies explicitly and in order, with repeated practice. Some of these strategies include using context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and word bases in determining meaning.
"Word Awareness Lessons" focuses on increasing word consciousness. This final chapter provides activities to increase word awareness in all language tasks: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Introduction Put It Into Practice Word Selection and Definition Take Five Extensive Reading Lessons Vocabulary Instruction Lessons Strategy Lessons Word Awareness Lessons References
Overview
In her best-selling book Teach Them All To Read, Elaine McEwan provides a great discussion of the most current reading research regarding how students learn to read so educators can make informed decisions about instruction. Research about reading has given us insight into the skills on which we need to focus our efforts to improve reading and comprehension. Now we can identify the skills that require ...