Vocabulary Instruction in Secondary Schools
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AN: ED459456
AU: Carnicelli,-Thomas-A.
TI: Words Work: Activities for Developing Vocabulary, Style, and Critical Thinking.
PY: 2001
AV: Heinemann, 88 Post Road West, P.O. Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881 ($23). Tel: 800-793-2154 (Toll Free); Fax: 800-847-0938 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.heinemann.com.
NT: Foreword by Jim Burke.
PR: Document Not Available from EDRS.
DEM: *Integrated-Activities; *Language-Arts; *Thinking-Skills; *Vocabulary-Development
DER: Class-Activities; Learning-Activities; Secondary-Education
AB: This book offers integrated activities in which students explore words and, at the same time, develop their language arts and thinking skills. The book states that this way teachers can pay more attention to word study, without sacrificing other parts of the English curriculum and without resorting to word lists and memorization. In the first section, "Verbal Charades," students play a verbal version of charades, using all the language arts in the process, while "Verbal Clusters" is a weeklong set of writing and reading tasks involving a group of related words. To help teachers use the activities, the second section of the book--a brief, nontechnical history of the English vocabulary--discusses the differences between native words and borrowed words. A third section on writing style offers activities in which students analyze the kind of words used by often-studied writers. Students also explore writing in different styles themselves, as they learn the special advantages of combining the best features of native and borrowed words. The final section, "Word Study and Cultural Values," makes students aware of the cultural values of the words they encounter. In an activity based on "Bartlett's Quotations" they explore certain key cultural concepts such as courage, patriotism, and non-violence. Contains 21 figures that can be duplicated as handouts, along with additional teaching suggestions and samples of student work. (Contains 41 references.) (NKA)
AN: ED458595
AU: Michaels,-Judith-Rowe
TI: Dancing with Words: Helping Students Love Language through Authentic Vocabulary Instruction.
CS: National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL.
PY: 2001
AV: National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No. 10517-3050: $14.95, members; $19.95, nonmembers). Tel: 800-369-6283 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.ncte.org.
NT: Foreword by Richard Lederer.
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC07 Plus Postage.
DL: http://www.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED458595
DEM: *Classroom-Environment; *Language-Usage; *Vocabulary-; *Vocabulary-Development; *Vocabulary-Skills
DER: Class-Activities; Instructional-Effectiveness; Learning-Activities; Secondary-Education
AB: This book argues for a deeper, richer view of vocabulary than the standard images conjured up by that word--worksheets, weekly quizzes, and anxieties about standardized test scores. The book invites teachers and students to experience "the music of words," words in isolation and in juxtapositions, and urges them to bring their own life experiences to language, showing in turn how language can help them know that experience more fully. It demonstrates how to build a community in the classroom where curiosity about language is the norm. It states that, within this community, students and teacher not only take time to test out shades of connotation and learn about how words and syntax create voice, they also: engage in personal and philosophical discussions that grow from seemingly simple words such as "solitude," "self," and "phony"; participate in dance and theater games as ways of mastering language; keep individual word lists which they share with the class through a variety of exercises; free-associate through discussion and freewrites on key words from literature; write their own dictionary definitions of familiar words; experiment with the rhythms and sounds of words through poetry writing; and explore the different vocabularies used in a big city newspaper--in sportswriting, book and TV reviews, news reporting, editorials, and science writing. (Each chapter contains notes, and a 17-item annotated bibliography of books for further reading is attached.) (NKA)
AN: ED454532
AU: Yinger,-Lisa
TI: Stand Together or Apart: A Thematic Unit for "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier and "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
PY: 2001
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC02 Plus Postage.
DL: http://www.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED454532
DEM: *Adolescent-Literature; *Critical-Reading; *Literary-Criticism; *Novels-; *Thematic-Approach
DER: Class-Activities; Comparative-Analysis; Learning-Activities; Lesson-Plans; Secondary-Education; Units-of-Study; Vocabulary-
AB: This thematic unit is all about what a classic novel about race relations in the 1930s American South, "To Kill a Mockingbird," and a frequently banned contemporary teen story about a candy sale, "The Chocolate War," have in common. The unit considers what people have in common, what it means to stand apart, and what individuals do when forced to choose. It takes student readers day-by-day and chapter-by-chapter first through "The Chocolate War" (39 chapters) and then through "To Kill a Mockingbird" (31 chapters). The unit gives vocabulary for each chapter, offers suggested activities following readings, presents post-reading questions for students, and lists topics for discussion or final essays. (NKA)
AN: EJ622800
AU: Shafer,-Gregory; Gray,-Loretta-S.; House,-Nicole-E.; Zaininger,-Gayle
TI: What Is Your Favorite Activity for Teaching about Language?
PY: 2001
SO: English-Journal; v90 n4 p27-29 Mar 2001
NT: Theme: And Language for All.
DEM: *English-Instruction; *Language-Arts
DER: Class-Activities; Secondary-Education; Standard-Spoken-Usage; Vocabulary-Development; Writing-Improvement; Writing-Instruction
AB: Offers brief descriptions from four English teachers of activities they have successfully used with high school English students, dealing with Standard English, cliches and word choice, group vocabulary work, and the love of words. (SR)
AN: EJ619428
AU: Hennings,-Dorothy-Grant
TI: Contextually Relevant Word Study: Adolescent Vocabulary Development across the Curriculum.
PY: 2000
SO: Journal-of-Adolescent-and-Adult-Literacy; v44 n3 p268-79 Nov 2000
DEM: *Vocabulary-Development; *Vocabulary-Skills; *Word-Study-Skills
DER: Class-Activities; Content-Area-Reading; Content-Area-Writing; Higher-Education; Secondary-Education
AB: Argues the importance of contextually relevant word study across the curriculum of upper levels of schooling. Outlines and describes seven general principles for making word study strategies a natural part of ongoing studies in the subject areas, and describes their application in class. (SR)
AN: EJ573367
AU: Johnson,-Andrew-P.; Rasmussen,-Jay-B.
TI: Classifying and Super Word Web: Two Strategies to Improve Productive Vocabulary.
PY: 1998
SO: Journal-of-Adolescent-and-Adult-Literacy; v42 n3 p204-07 Nov 1998
DEM: *Vocabulary-Development
DER: Class-Activities; Classification-; Lesson-Plans; Secondary-Education
AB: Describes two class activities for moving new words into students' productive vocabulary. (RS)
AN: EJ515890
AU: Kibby,-Michael-W.
TI: The Organization and Teaching of Things and the Words That Signify Them.
PY: 1995
SO: Journal-of-Adolescent-and-Adult-Literacy; v39 n3 p208-23 Nov 1995
DEM: *Concept-Formation; *Vocabulary-Development; *Vocabulary-Skills
DER: Higher-Education; Models-; Secondary-Education
AB: Presents a model of the hierarchy or gradations of a student's knowledge of things and the words that signify them, ordering these variations in terms of difficulty. Offers strategies for matching vocabulary instruction to student's prior knowledge, promoting natural growth in meaning vocabulary, lifelong vocabulary learning, and teaching specific words. (SR)
AN: ED337762
TI: Reading: Middle and Secondary. Special Collection Number 7.
CS: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Bloomington, IN.
PY: 1991
AV: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Indiana University, 2805 E. 10th St., Suite 150, Bloomington, IN 47408-2698 ($5.95 plus $2.00 postage and handling).
NT: Published in cooperation with EDINFO Press.
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC04 Plus Postage.
DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED337762
DEM: *Content-Area-Reading; *Family-Involvement
DER: Computer-Uses-in-Education; Cooperative-Learning; Intermediate-Grades; Middle-Schools; Reading-Aloud-to-Others; Reading-Comprehension; Reading-Diagnosis; Reading-Improvement; Reading-Material-Selection; Reading-Writing-Relationship; Secondary-Education; Two-Year-Colleges; Vocabulary-Development
AB: This ERIC/RCS Special Collection contains 10 or more Digests (brief syntheses of the research on a specific topic in contemporary education) and FAST Bibs (Focused Access to Selected Topics--annotated bibliographies with selected entries from the ERIC database), providing up-to-date information in an accessible format. The collection focuses on reading in the middle and high school, and includes material on reading aloud to students, reading-writing relationships, reading across the curriculum, improving reading comprehension, computers and reading instruction, selecting reading materials, family involvement, and reading assessment. The collection also includes information on content area reading, cooperative learning and reading, trade books in the classroom, administrators and the reading program, and vocabulary instruction. The material in the special collection is designed for use by teachers, students, administrators, researchers, policy makers, and parents. A profile of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills (ERIC/RCS), an order form, and information on a computerized search service, on searching ERIC in print, on submitting material to ERIC/RCS, and on books available from ERIC/RCS are attached. (RS)
AN: EJ413003
AU: Rinehart,-Marilyn
TI: Vocabulary Roulette (Open to Suggestion).
PY: 1990
SO: Journal-of-Reading; v34 n1 p67-69 Sep 1990
DER: Class-Activities; Learning-Activities; Secondary-Education
AB: Describes an activity in which students learn new words by guessing the meaning in isolation, in context, and then by looking in a dictionary. Notes that the pressure on students to be correct is removed by having different students guess the meaning at each stage of the activity. (RS)
AN: EJ405051
AU: Memory,-David-M.
TI: Teaching Technical Vocabulary: Before, during, or after the Reading Assignment?
PY: 1990
SO: Journal-of-Reading-Behavior; v22 n1 p39-53 Mar 1990
DEM: *Content-Area-Reading; *Instructional-Effectiveness; *Teacher-Role; *Vocabulary-Development
DER: Analysis-of-Variance; Secondary-Education; Teaching-Methods
AB: Investigates the effectiveness of technical vocabulary instruction before, during, and after reading content area materials in biology, government, and economics. Finds no significant differences attributable to the time of instruction. Finds a strong teacher effect. Concludes that the manner in which vocabulary is taught is more important than when it is taught. (RS)
AN: ED316854
AU: Lansberry,-Richard
TI: Vocabulary Instruction in Secondary Education. Focused Access to Selected Topics (FAST) Bibliography No. 41.
CS: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Bloomington, IN.
PY: 1990
AV: ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Indiana University, Smith Research Center, Suite 150, 2805 E. 10th St., Blooomington, IN 47408-2698 (free, $2.00 postage and handling for up to 10 free items).
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
DEM: *Secondary-Education; *Vocabulary-Skills
DER: Annotated-Bibliographies; Content-Area-Reading; Literature-Reviews; Reading-Research; Reading-Strategies; Teaching-Methods
AB: This 37-item annotated bibliography is a review of literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database from 1976-1989 related to vocabulary instruction in secondary education. The majority of citations in the bibliography provide articles with specific strategies for teaching vocabulary in content classrooms. The remainder of the sources in the bibliography focus on the theoretical framework, recent research, and an overview of the rationale for vocabulary instruction in secondary content areas. (RS)
AN: EJ386969
AU: Thomson,-Lynn-M.
TI: Mythomanics: A Painless Dictionary and Vocabulary Skills Builder.
PY: 1989
SO: Exercise-Exchange; v34 n2 p36-38 Spr 1989
DEM: *Dictionaries-; *Vocabulary-Skills
DER: Class-Activities; Definitions-; Educational-Games; Secondary-Education; Vocabulary-Development
AB: Describes a dictionary game, adapted from the game "Balderdash," which builds skills in vocabulary and dictionary use, creative writing, and impromptu speaking, and simultaneously develops the ability to evaluate definitions critically. (MM)
AN: EJ383773
AU: Edwards,-Audrey-T.; Dermott,-R.-Allen
TI: A New Way with Vocabulary.
PY: 1989
SO: Journal-of-Reading; v32 n6 p559-61 Mar 1989
DEM: *Context-Clues; *Vocabulary-Skills
DER: Reading-Skills; Secondary-Education; Teaching-Methods; Vocabulary-; Vocabulary-Development
AB: Presents examples of a method that teaches vocabulary as a prereading activity using selected quotes so that students can use word parts and context clues such as transitions, connotation, and parallel syntactic structure. (RS)
AN: EJ381855
AU: Polette,-Keith
TI: Using ABC Books for Vocabulary Development in the Secondary School (Instructional Materials).
PY: 1989
SO: English-Journal; v78 n1 p78-80 Jan 1989
DEM: *Instructional-Materials; *Picture-Books; *Teaching-Methods; *Vocabulary-Development
DER: Secondary-Education
AB: Argues that teachers can capture the minds of students in vocabulary development by regularly using ABC picture books in the secondary English classroom. Reports that teachers using these books have considerable success with low ability students and college-bound seniors alike. Describes the use of four ABC books. (RS)
AN: EJ381826
TI: Teaching Vocabulary in Content Areas.
PY: 1989
SO: Journal-of-Reading; v32 n4 p368-69 Jan 1989
DEM: *Vocabulary-
DER: Secondary-Education; Teaching-Methods
AB: Presents six ideas for teaching vocabulary including using firsthand experiences as illustrations, concrete items and visuals, comparisons of related words, variations or transformations of words, figurative meanings, and context to make intelligent guesses. (RS)
AN: EJ381709
AU: Riddell,-Carol-Bartlett
TI: Towards a More Active Vocabulary.
PY: 1988
SO: English-Journal; v77 n8 p50-51 Dec 1988
DEM: *Vocabulary-; *Vocabulary-Skills
DER: Class-Activities; Discussion-Teaching-Technique; English-Instruction; Secondary-Education; Student-Participation; Teacher-Student-Relationship; Vocabulary-Development
AB: Offers strategies to make vocabulary study relevant to students. (MS)
AN: EJ331220
AU: Stahl,-Steven-A.
TI: Three Principles of Effective Vocabulary Instruction.
PY: 1986
SO: Journal-of-Reading; v29 n7 p662-68 Apr 1986
NT: Special Issue: Vocabulary.
DEM: *Cognitive-Processes; *Educational-Principles; *Reading-Comprehension; *Teacher-Effectiveness; *Vocabulary-Development
DER: Educational-Improvement; Reading-Instruction; Secondary-Education; Teaching-Methods; Word-Study-Skills
AB: Discusses three principles that characterize effective vocabulary instruction (contextual and definitional information, active processing, and multiple exposures) and describes how these principles can be used to modify and improve existing methods of teaching word meanings. (HOD)
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Title: Vocabulary instruction in secondary education
Author:Lansberry, Richard.
Year: 1990
Publisher: Bloomington, IN] : ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills
Title: Learning from text across conceptual domains
Author: Hynd, Cynthia
Year: 1998
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates
ISBN:080582183X
Title: Handbook of reading research
Authors:Barr, Rebecca.
Year: 1996
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates
ISBN: 0805824162
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