Focuses on vocabulary instruction for students, and especially those whose underdeveloped word knowledge negatively impacts their academic performance. This book provides activities to increase word awareness in the language tasks of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

'Word Selection and Definition' provides you, the teacher, with concrete ways to select vocabulary words and plan lessons. 'Take Five' includes presentation techniques so you can make the most of each lesson and provide an atmosphere in which all students will learn. 'Extensive Reading Lessons' focuses on ways for students to improve their vocabulary in a natural way, through reading. 'Vocabulary Instruction Lessons' is dedicated to direct instruction of vocabulary words and contains a multitude of cumulative, sequential activities.These activities should be presented in sequence, as one activity builds on the other. 'Strategy Lessons' provides the 'best kept secrets' of good readers. At-risk learners and struggling readers should be taught these strategies explicitly and in order, with repeated practice. Some of these strategies include using context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and word bases in determining meaning. 'Word Awareness Lessons' focuses on increasing word consciousness. This final chapter provides activities to increase word awareness in all language tasks: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Introduction Put It Into Practice Word Selection and Definition Take Five Extensive Reading Lessons Vocabulary Instruction Lessons Strategy Lessons Word Awareness Lessons References