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Informationen zum Autor Janet Allen is one of the most prominent and outspoken literacy advocates in the country. A former elementary school teacher and university instructor, hundreds of teachers attend her seminars each year. Her books Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 and Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading have been praised by elementary and secondary school teachers, education professors, adult literacy advocates, and ESL instructors. Dr. Allen lives in Orlando, Florida. Klappentext Merges recent research and key content-area teaching strategies to show teachers how to help students understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks, tests, articles, and other informational texts. Each instructional tool is listed alphabetically along with its purpose: building background knowledge; teaching words that are critical to comprehension; providing support during reading and writing; developing a conceptual framework; and assessing students' understanding of words and concepts. Zusammenfassung In Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Grades 4-12, author Janet Allen merges research and content-area teaching strategies to help teachers show students how to understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks and build comprehension of these texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Concept Circles; Concept Ladder; Concepts and Vocabulary: Categories and Labels; Contextual Redefinition; Dictoglos; Focused Cloze; Frayer Model; Frequent Contact; "I'm Thinking of a Word . . ."; I Spy: A Word Scavenger Hunt; Lead; List-Group-Label; Possible Questions; Possible Sentences; Previewing Content Vocabulary; Semantic Feature Analysis; Semantic Mapping; Survival of the Fittest; Think-Pair-Share: Collaborate for Understanding; Vocab-O-Gram; Word Sort; Word Walls