Teaching Academic Vocabulary Effectively: PART 1

Do you struggle in determining the type of vocabulary to teach in your content area class? Do you find the "unique" words that are highlighted by the publisher to be useless in terms of teaching overall text comprehension? This workbook does all of the work for you by providing nine comprehensive units that focus on essential academic terms that are encountered in content area readings. The teaching of these high-utility words, in the manner provided, will increase student comprehension of non-fiction reading and improve student understanding of standardized tests. This is how vocabulary should be taught!