101 Strategies to Make Academic Vocabulary Stick

Veteran educator Marilee Sprenger explains how to teach the essential, high-frequency words that appear in academic contexts--and reverse the disadvantages of what she calls "word poverty." Drawing on research and experience, Sprenger provides a rich array of engaging strategies to help educators across all content areas and grade levels not only teach students a large quantity of words but also ensure that they know these words well. You'll find


* An overview of how the brain learns and retains new words, including the three stages of building long-term memories: encoding, storage, and retrieval. 

* Encoding strategies to introduce words in novel ways and jump-start the memory process.

* Rehearsal strategies to help students put words into long-term storage. 

* Review strategies to help students strengthen their retrieval skills and gain the automaticity needed for reading comprehension. 

* Ways to address planning and assessment as crucial, intersecting supports of a robust vocabulary program. 


This comprehensive resource has everything you need to help your students profoundly expand their vocabulary, enabling them to speak, read, and write with greater understanding and confidence.