Teaching Reading Vocabulary
Teaching Reading Vocabulary by Tom Nicholson, published by NZCER Press on July 3, 2017, is a resource designed to enhance students’ engagement with language. This edition, comprising 143 pages, aims to transform students into enthusiastic word detectives, eager to decipher new vocabulary and apply it in their writing. The book outlines five research-based strategies that empower students to effectively understand and utilize vocabulary, focusing on techniques such as context clues, word structure analysis, and the exploration of figurative language.
Readers will find practical tools and strategies that align with National Reading and Writing Standards, making it a valuable addition to educational settings. The book includes free-to-copy worksheets that facilitate vocabulary practice and reinforce understanding of the English language’s structure. With an emphasis on teaching methods in education and language arts, this resource supports educators in fostering a deeper appreciation for reading and writing among their students.
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Would you like your students to be excited when they read a new word and keen to work out its meaning straight away? This book will turn them into word detectives, ready to tackle any new word they come across. And when writing, would you like them to make sentences that have interesting and descriptive words like shamble, ravenous or meandering?
Teaching Reading Vocabulary presents five research-based vocabulary strategies that every student can use: making use of context clues when reading; breaking words into meaningful parts and understanding the structure of the English language; creating vocabulary concept maps; exploring the multiple meaning of words and figurative language; and searching the dictionary and thesaurus to build knowledge of meanings, synonyms, antonyms and word origins.
This book will be useful for meeting the National Reading and Writing Standards and links to the Literacy Learning Progressions.
There are free-to-copy worksheets that will help students practise their vocabulary skills and also build their knowledge of the structure of the English language.
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