Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction

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Summary: Bringing Words to Life
Review: Bringing Words ot Life is a great resource book for teachers. It is packed with great ideas, researched based instructional strategies, and even a few games. The most important point, I felt was your love for language is contagious. Your students will see how much you love words and through modeling and having a word enriched environment they will also have a love of language.

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Summary: Bringing Words to Life
Review: Bringing Words to Life was a great resource in teaching vocabulary development to school age children. The most important item that was helpful to me was identifying the vocabulary tiers. It was very helpful in developing vocabulary lessons.

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Summary: Bringing Words to Life
Review: Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction is a good book to use for resource of ways to teach vocabulary. I found Chapter 4: Developing Vocabulary in the Earliest Grades to be the most helpful for finding ideas on how to teach vocabulary to my reading groups. All though, at times I did think some of the chapters were quite lengthy and even sometimes hard to understand. I will be using this book for ideas in the future.


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Summary: Vocabulary Venture
Review: Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction was a wonderful book that provided several helpful and useful ideas. It expanded on ideas I have already been using with my children and outlined reasons why some of my ideas may not have been successful in the past. The only complaint that I had was that some of the chapters tended to be a little lengthy and made reading somewhat difficult at times. But overall I enjoyed the book and the discussions it provoked in our book study group.I would recommend it to teachers and others involved in the vocabulary development of children.

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Summary: Good Resource
Review: I thought this book was informative and loaded with ideas. I teach First Grade and I would reccommend it to other teachers, although I felt it was geared for upper grades.

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Summary: Outstanding resource!
Review: This book is by far the best resource on vocabulary instruction available today. In my work with teachers, this book has had the best reception with practicing teachers of any book I have used. I has been a very popular selection for professional book clubs.

The authors use common-sense language to explain how to make vocabulary instruction meaningful--and why many commonly used techniques are ineffective. Of the essential elements of reading instruction, vocabulary has easily been the most neglected, despite its clear connection with reading comprehensioin. This book provides teachers with real, usable methods that have been proven effective.

Every teacher should read this book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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Summary: Vocabulary Instruction
Review: This book is very helpful in planning vocabulary instruction in the classroom. Not only is it packed with ideas, it constantly refers to research to back up strategies.

Teachers should read it! It will help them if they need ideas and boost their confidence if they are already using some of the strategies found in the book.

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Summary: Bringing Words to Life really BRINGS WORDS TO LIFE
Review: Truly Enlightening!!! Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction is THE resource book for all educators. This book is soundly researched and gives teachers practical new ideas and techninques to teach Vocabulary Instruction. "Exciting and engaging vocabulary instruction can set students on the path to a lifelong fascination with words.(Back of Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction)"