Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas: Unlock the Door to Content Area Literacy Through Explicit Vocabulary Instruction

Accelerate your student's academic language development with the second edition of the Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas program. This program:

Uses direct, explicit vocabulary instruction, which improves learning outcomes for ELLs and struggling learners.

Helps English learners and struggling learners acquire new content area vocabulary and build word knowledge from incremental, repeated and varied exposures to words.

Has an instructional routine that uses the research-based Gradual Release of Responsibility, Productive Partnering and other models as an efective way of increasing language acquisition.

Is standards based and aligned to the Common Core State Standards and other leading research on what works most efectively.

Uses sca?olded and di?erentiated instruction to improve vocabulary acquisition for English language learners.

Author: Dorothy Kauffman,Gary Apple
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01/25/2010
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780194525008
ISBN10: 0194525007
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Language Study | English as a Second Language

About the Author
Dorothy Kauffman, Ph.D., is a consultant with the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC, specializing in and advocating for integrated instruction.

Kate Kinsella, Ed.D., is a teacher educator at San Francisco State University and a consultant to state departments of education and school districts.