Teaching Individual Words : One Size Does Not

Helping students master a broad range of individual words is a vital part of effective vocabulary instruction. Building on his bestselling resource The Vocabulary Book, Michael Graves's new book describes a practical program for teaching individual words in the K-8 classroom. Designed to foster effective, efficient, and engaging differentiated instruction, Teaching Individual Words combines the latest research with vivid illustrations from real classrooms. Get ready to bridge the vocabulary gap with this user-friendly teaching tool

Michael F. Graves is Professor Emeritus of Literacy Education at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Importance of Vocabulary	p. 2
The Vocabularies of Linguistically Less Advantaged Children	p. 3
A Comprehensive Four-Part Vocabulary Program	p. 5
The Focus of This Book	p. 8
Crucial Facts About Words and Word Learning	p. 10
How Many Vocabularies Do We Have?	p. 11
What Is a Word?	p. 11
What Does It Mean To "Know" a Word?	p. 12
How Many Words Are There?	p. 13
How Many Words Do Students Learn?	p. 14
How Do Word-Learning Tasks Differ?	p. 15
Summing Up	p. 18
Common Considerations for Vocabulary Instruction	p. 19
The Frequency Distribution of English Words	p. 20
Selecting Vocabulary to Teach	p. 23
Principles of Effective Vocabulary Instruction	p. 27
The Importance of Student-Friendly Definitions	p. 29
Special Consideration for English Learners	p. 30
Summing Up	p. 32
Building Students' Oral Vocabularies	p. 33
Approaches for All Students	p. 34
An Approach for Students with Small Vocabularies	p. 37
Summing Up	p. 45
Rich and Powerful Instruction	p. 46
Semantic Mapping	p. 47
Semantic Feature Analysis	p. 48
Four Squares	p. 51
Venn Diagrams	p. 52
Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy	p. 55
Possible Sentences	p. 56
Focused Discussion	p. 57
Vocabulary Visits	p. 58
Robust Instruction	p. 60
Knowledge as Design	p. 62
Frayer Method	p. 63
Expressive Vocabulary Instruction	p. 66
Summing Up	p. 68
Introductory Instruction	p. 69
Teaching Students to Read Known Words	p. 70
Providing Glossaries	p. 70
Context-Dictionary-Discussion	p. 72
Definition Plus Rich Context	p. 72
Definition, Rich Context, and a Picture	p. 73
Context-Relationship	p. 74
Teaching New Meanings for Known Words	p. 75
Summing Up	p. 77
Repetition, Assessment, and Differences Across Grade Levels	p. 79
The Importance of Repetition	p. 80
Assessing Word Knowledge	p. 85
Differences Across Grade Levels	p. 90
Final Comments	p. 92
References and Children's Literature	p. 93
Index	p. 101
About the Author	p. 107
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