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Secondary - Vocabulary Magazine 2021

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Inside Words:<br />

Tools for Teaching<br />

Academic <strong>Vocabulary</strong><br />

This book provides practical strategies and activities for teaching<br />

vocabulary. Allen shows teachers how to help students<br />

understand academic vocabulary found in texts books, texts,<br />

articles and other informational texts. Allen has merged recent<br />

research and key content-area teaching strategies.<br />

These are organised into the following categories:<br />

• Builds background knowledge<br />

• Teaches words that are critical to comprehension<br />

• Provides support during reading and writing<br />

• Develops conceptual framework for themes, topics, and<br />

units of study<br />

• Assesses students understanding of words and concepts<br />

Allen (2007)

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