Primary - Vocabulary Magazine 2021
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Inside Words:<br />
Tools for Teaching Academic<br />
<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)