Camille Blachowicz, Peter J. Fisher

Broschiertes Buch

Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms

Beschreibung

A wealth of ideas to help K-12 teachers improve students' vocabularies across all disciplines by implementing best-practice research in their classroom.

The Fifth Edition of Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms, 5/e helps both pre- and in-service teachers across all grade levels and all content areas to seamlessly and effectively incorporate vocabulary development into their everyday classroom instruction. With fresh and current ideas for implementing best-practice research, this text outlines classroom-tested strategies for beginning as well as experienced teachers who want to revitalize their curriculum. Literacy experts Camille Blachowicz and Peter Fisher provide a wealth of information about new teaching suggestions and methods including independent, metacognitive strategies for learning vocabulary, teaching academic vocabulary, resources for ELL and struggling readers and the older learner, and more. It's a must-have resource for any classroom teacher.

Autor

Camille Blachowicz is Professor of Education at the National College of Education of National-Louis University, where she is Director of the Reading Center and Reading Program. In her long career as an educator, Dr. Blachowicz has been a classroom teacher, team leader, and reading specialist as well as a university educator and staff developer. Her research has been supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation, the Fulbright Council and the International Reading Association. Dr. Blachowicz's many articles have been published in journals ranging from Educational Leadership and Reading Teacher to Reading Research Quarterly. She is also co-author of the books Reading Diagnosis: An Instructional Approach, Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms, Reading Comprehension: Strategies for Independent Learners, Reading Street, Fluency Development: From Research to Practice, and the chapter on vocabulary research for the third Handbook of Reading Research along with numerous book chapters and monographs. She also co-edits the series of staff development and in-service books Tools for Teaching Literacy along with Donna Ogle. As a staff developer, Dr. Blachowicz is a frequent speaker at national, local, and international conferences and at meetings of the International Reading Association, where she is a member of the publication committee. Dr. Blachowicz has also been named to the roster of Outstanding Teacher Educators in Reading by the International Reading Association. Currently, along with her teaching and writing, Dr. Blachowicz is co-directing two projects in urban and suburban schools: Literacy Partners, and the Everybody Reads Fluency Project. Peter Fisher is a professor of education at National College of Education of National-Louis University where he teaches graduate classes in literacy education. Peter taught in elementary and high schools in England prior to coming to the USA to complete his doctoral studies at SUNY at Buffalo. Peter’s research interests include vocabulary development and the teaching of storytelling. In 1997 he was inducted into the Illinois Reading Hall of Fame.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson
• 5. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 215mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780132837781
• ISBN-10: 0132837781
• Artikelnr.: 40478930