Vocabulary Instruction: Research to Practice

This highly regarded work brings together prominent authorities on vocabulary teaching and learning to provide a comprehensive yet concise guide to effective instruction. The book showcases practical ways to teach specific vocabulary words and word-learning strategies and create engaging, word-rich classrooms. Instructional activities and games for diverse learners are brought to life with detailed examples. Drawing on the most rigourous research available, the editors and contributors distil what PreK–8 teachers need to know and do to support all students' ongoing vocabulary growth and enjoyment of reading.

New to This Edition:

• Reflects the latest research and instructional practices.
• New section (five chapters) on pressing current issues in the field: assessment, authentic reading experiences, English language learners, uses of multimedia tools, and the vocabularies of narrative and informational texts.
• Contributor panel expanded with additional leading researchers.

Key Points:

• A successful volume brought fully up to date, and featuring five new chapters on important topics.
• Practical: provides concrete examples and step-by-step guidance for implementing the best research-based strategies.
• Thorough and carefully crafted: concisely addresses all components of effective vocabulary instruction.
• Accomplished contributor panel includes the most prominent researchers in the field.

Appropriate for classroom teachers in grades PreK–8; reading specialists, curriculum development specialists, and professional development providers; literacy researchers; teacher educators and students.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Context for Vocabulary Instruction, Edward J. Kame’enui and James F. Baumann

I. Teaching Specific Vocabulary

• 2. Direct and Rich Vocabulary Instruction Needs to Start Early, Margaret G. McKeown, Isabel L. Beck, and Cheryl Sandora
• 3. Teaching Vocabulary in the Primary Grades: Vocabulary Instruction Needed, Andrew Biemiller
• 4. Vocabulary Instruction for Young Children at Risk of Reading Difficulties: Teaching Word Meanings during Shared Storybook Readings, Michael D. Coyne, Ashley Capozzoli-Oldham, and Deborah C. Simmons
• 5. Young Word Wizards!: Fostering Vocabulary Development in Preschool and Primary Education, Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl and Steven A. Stahl

II. Teaching Vocabulary-Learning Strategies

• 6. Teaching Prefixes: Making Strong Instruction Even Stronger, Michael F. Graves, Melanie Ruda, Gregory C. Sales, and James F. Baumann
• 7. The Vocabulary–Spelling Connection and Generative Instruction: Morphological Knowledge at the Intermediate Grades and Beyond, Shane Templeton
• 8. Teaching Word-Learning Strategies, James F. Baumann, Elizabeth Carr Edwards, Eileen Boland, and George Font

III. Teaching Vocabulary through Word Consciousness and Language Play

• 9. Developing Word Consciousness: Lessons from Highly Diverse Fourth-Grade Classrooms, Judith A. Scott, Tatiana F. Miller, and Susan Leigh Flinspach
• 10. Keep the “Fun” in Fundamental: Encouraging Word Consciousness and Incidental Word Learning in the Classroom through Word Play, Camille L. Z. Blachowicz and Peter Fisher
• 11. Language Play: Essential for Literacy, Dale D. Johnson, Bonnie Johnson, and Kathleen Schlichting

IV. Special Topics in Vocabulary Instruction

• 12. Vocabulary Assessment: Making Do with What We Have While We Create the Tools We Need, P. David Pearson, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, and Michael L. Kamil
• 13. Reading and Vocabulary Growth, Anne E. Cunningham and Colleen Ryan O’Donnell
• 14. Powerful Vocabulary Instruction for English Learners, Patrick C. Manyak
• 15. Using Multimedia to Support Generative Vocabulary Learning, Jill Castek, Bridget Dalton, and Dana L. Grisham
• 16. What Differences in Narrative and Informational Texts Mean for the Learning and Instruction of Vocabulary, Elfrieda H. Hiebert and Gina N. Cervetti