Targeted Vocabulary Strategies for Secondary Social Studies

Providing tools and techniques for getting students not just to memorize vocabulary terms but to really understand them, this innovative guide shows teachers how to implement concept-based, context-driven social studies vocabulary instruction. Outlining a method that employs five simple strategies-comparing and contrasting, mapping and visualizing, grouping and organizing, defining and associating, and reviewing and playing-the authors explain how to teach vocabulary not as isolated terms but as an integral part of curriculum content. Includes sample lessons and reproducible handouts. Bibliography. Web resources. Illustrated. 8½'' x 11'' (Z102)