Word Wise and Content Rich, Grades 7-12: Five Essential Steps to Teaching Academic Vocabulary

Binghamton University, SUNY

 

How do you teach students the words that are crucial to unlocking the concepts in your content area? Until now “assign, define, test” has been the default strategy. But with Word Wise and Content Rich, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey bring vocabulary in out of the cold and into the heart of daily classroom practice in English, math, science, and history.

 

Word Wise and Content Rich offers a five-part framework for teaching vocabulary that's tailored to the needs of adolescent learners yet mindful of the demands on content-area teachers. Grounded in current research, this framework gives students the multiple encounters necessary to lock in the meaning of new words forever. Fisher and Frey's five-step modelshows you how to:

Use Word Wise and Content Rich, and close the word gap between low-achieving and high-achieving students. With its strategies, every student in your class - in your school - can access the textbook and develop the vocabulary needed for success in content-area reading.

 

Read Word Wise and Content Rich and get the last word on great vocabulary teaching.