Easy Mini-Lessons for Building Vocabulary: Practical Strategies That Boost Word Knowledge and Reading Comprehension

by Laura Robb

There's not a more potent medicine for correcting reading problems and boosting test scores than effective vocabulary-building. This book shows you how to dynamically teach vocabulary before, during, and after reading--in every subject area. Easy mini-lessons on tackling key concept words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes, using context clues, and more. Lots of fun word games, including idiom sleuthing, word history maps, vocabulary quilting, synonym...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590264664
• ISBN13: 9780590264662
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Teaching Resources
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8

Customer Reviews

A Plethora of Ideas

Laura Robb's guide to teaching vocabulary minilessons is terrific. I have been using it since it arrived and do not know how I managed before I bought it. I find the strategies helpful as I struggle to provide the kind of vocabulary instruction the children need while using the Teacher's College model of reading and writing instruction. I had been frustrated with the lack of time to teach vocabulary and find that her suggestions weave the instruction into the reading program smoothly.