Links & Websites
Website with teacher resources for vocabulary and comprehension instruction across content-area classrooms. Includes lesson plans, social studies units, science units, and English learner supports.
Related Resources:
Booklets
Promoting Vocabulary Development: Components of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
Booklet with vocabulary lesson ideas and strategies, including explicit instruction, concept maps, word webs, semantic feature analysis, and advanced word study.
Lessons
Vocabulary Activities for Extended Student Practice
Instructional activities for developing students' vocabulary, concept knowledge, and oral language. Includes ways to use graphic organizers, vocabulary word walls, and word games.
Lessons
Vocabulary Lesson Plan
Calendar for planning vocabulary instruction across a four-week period. Provides example using instructional activities from "Vocabulary Activities for Extended Student Practice."
Instructional Materials
Vocabulary Instruction: Planning & Selecting Vocabulary Words to Preteach Before Reading
Guidelines for selecting and explicitly teaching vocabulary words. Includes an instructional planning chart.
Links & Websites
Effective Social Studies Instruction to Promote Knowledge Acquisition and Vocabulary Learning of English Language Learners in the Middle Grades
Description of specific instructional methods for enhancing social studies lessons to promote comprehension and vocabulary learning for secondary English learners.