Secondary - Vocabulary Magazine 2021

A selection
of useful
resources
Secondary
Vocabulary

Bringing Words to Life:
Robust Vocabulary Instruction
Beck, McKeown & Kucan (2013)
A very influential and practical book on teaching and developing
vocabulary.
This second edition is even more comprehensive than the first. It
includes - vocabulary and writing; assessment; differentiated
instruction for struggling readers and EAL students; discussions
of content-area vocabulary and multiple meaning words;
additional examples of what robust instruction looks like in
action, and a useful menu of instructional activities.
Beck, McKeown & Kucan are trusted experts and share their
decision making, offer warnings about potential challenges,
encourage thoughtful planning, and insist on follow-through.
2013 – Second Edition
This personal touch is perhaps the most distinctive feature of
this book.

Vocabulary Games for
the Classroom
Carleton & Marzano (2010)
Carleton and Marzano have devised a way to make learning vocabulary
enjoyable and easy for students through a simple, straightforward and
easy to use resource, Vocabulary Games for the Classroom. In this book
they provide a rich variety of vocabulary games aimed at building and
reinforcing students’ academic and general vocabulary.
Tailored for Foundation to Year 12 teachers.
Each activity includes a description of:
• the targeted year levels and content area
• the design
• set-up
• materials
• step-by-step instructions
Extensive appendix with hand picked vocabulary terms

Tools for Teaching
Academic Vocabulary
Allen (2014)
This is a toolkit for teaching vocabulary. It provides strategies that
will help students learn new words, become more conscious of
words, and increase their competence in knowing when and how to
use words.
To help develop effective vocabulary instruction, Allen has divided
the resource into four components:
• Providing rich and varied language experiences, Teaching
individual words, Teaching word-learning strategies and
Fostering word consciousness.
Allen further offers tools to develop effective instruction for each
component. Each activity description includes:
1. What the strategy is?
2. How is could be used in the classroom?
3. When/ why to apply the strategy?

Vocabulary: Integrated Word
Study in the Middle Grades
Overturf (2015)
Vocabularians is an instructional and practical book that guides
teachers to support adolescents to increase knowledge and
competency with word study, and to provoke the love of
words.
A list of strategies and practical examples are presented that
have been crafted by creative teachers.
These strategies and activities include:
• Vocabulary Activities with an Art Focus
• Vocabulary and Dramatic Expression
• Vocabulary Activities Immersed in Music
• Vocabulary Practice with Games
• Vocabulary Activities with Poems, Puzzles and Writing
• Vocabulary with Media and Technology
• Making Words Come Alive

Vocabulary Their Way:
Word Study with Middle and
Secondary Students
This book offers invaluable tools for teachers to use that will
enable their students to learn thousands of words
independently. The emphasis is on building word
consciousness. This new edition addresses three broad aspects
of vocabulary learning and instruction: context-based
instruction, word-specific instruction and generative
morphology instruction, and is available for pre-service,
graduate and experienced teachers of middle primary and high
school students.
Templeton, Bear, Invernizzi, Johnston, Flanigan, Townsend, Helman &
Hayes (2014)

Inside Words:
Tools for Teaching
Academic Vocabulary
This book provides practical strategies and activities for teaching
vocabulary. Allen shows teachers how to help students
understand academic vocabulary found in texts books, texts,
articles and other informational texts. Allen has merged recent
research and key content-area teaching strategies.
These are organised into the following categories:
• Builds background knowledge
• Teaches words that are critical to comprehension
• Provides support during reading and writing
• Develops conceptual framework for themes, topics, and
units of study
• Assesses students understanding of words and concepts
Allen (2007)

Creating Robust Vocabulary
Beck, McKeown & Kucan (2018)
Creating Robust Vocabulary by Beck, McKeown and Kucan
builds onto their ground-breaking work in Bringing Words to
Life.
This volume delivers thoroughly researched, evidence-based
strategies for supporting vocabulary development and
presents them in a way that is accessible to teachers and
engaging to students.
Content includes:
• Practical questions, extended examples, additional
tools and tips, details about effective instruction,
working with EAL students and professional
development.

Teaching Basic, Advanced
and Academic Vocabulary
Marzano (2020)
The resource will help students learn a tiered
vocabulary.
Contents include:
• The Importance of Vocabulary Knowledge
• Teaching and Reinforcing Tier One and Tier
Two Terms as a Schoolwide Effort
• Tier One and Tier Two Terms for Individual
Students
• Teaching Tier Three Terms

Building Academic Vocabulary:
Teacher’s Manual
Marzano & Pickering (2005)
A great resources to give teachers a practical way to
help students master academic vocabulary. Building on
from their previous book, Marzano and Pickering
provide ideas and suggested word lists for
implementing subject specific vocabulary instruction.
With word lists applicable for F-12, educators are
encouraged to use the provided tools and activities to
help their students deepen their own understandings of
academic vocabulary, while helping them master
essential vocabulary and concept areas in each
discipline.

No More “Look Up the List”
Vocabulary Instruction
Cobb & Blachowicz (2014)
This useful and quick read is an efficient guide to engaging
research-proven practices for teaching words effectively.
Cobb & Blachowicz share why old practices don’t work and
how to put research into action. They answer the most
commonly asked questions about vocabulary instruction,
including:
• How many words, and how do I select them?
• How can I foster student independence using
dictionaries and glossaries?
• How do I find time for meaningful vocabulary
instruction?
• How can I assess and hold students accountable?

Teaching Vocabulary in All
Classrooms
The 5th Edition of Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms,
offers teachers ideas for implementing best-practice
vocabulary research and classroom-tested strategies into
their everyday classroom instruction.
A theoretical and practical perspective is presented.
Content areas:
• Learning in context, English focuses, Content area
focuses, Connections to spelling, Assessment,
Instruction for diverse learners and Developing word
consciousness.
Blachowicz & Fisher (2015)

Words Their Way:
Word Study for Phonics,
Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction
Offers a systematic, teacher-directed, childcentered
plan that provides a complete
word study curriculum to motivate and
engage students while helping them to
succeed in literacy learning.
Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton & Johnston (2014)

Vocabulary in a Snap:
100+ Lessons Secondary
Instruction
Vocabulary in a Snap is a teacher’s treasure chest
full of excellent, user-friendly strategies that
replace simply defining words with elevating
practice using rich application and transfer.
Access 100+ effective, practical, and fun vocabulary
exercises that take 20 minutes or less. Peery’s
outstanding SNAP lessons are aimed to help you
increase vocabulary for your high school and
middle school students.
Peery (2018)

Closing the Vocabulary Gap:
Mind the Gap
Quigley explores the increased demands of
an academic curriculum and how closing
the vocabulary gap between ‘word poor’
and ‘word rich’ students could prove the
vital difference between school failure and
success. This book provides practical
solutions for teachers across the
curriculum, incorporating easy-to-use tools,
resources and classroom activities.
Quigley (2018)