WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN VOCABULARY - RESEARCH-BASED PRACTICES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

By clearly explaining that vocabulary isn't just a predictor for comprehension, Pat reminds teachers how much meaning vocabulary matters, how complex teaching meaning is, and how critical reading is to building word banks. Her experience as a classroom teacher, researcher, scholar, and innovator gives readers a unique opportunity to learn from the best as Pat provides a practical classroom model to help all students including English language learners and diverse readers develop broad, nuanced vocabularies. Her strategies directly address learning words in the content areas as well as teaching vocabulary at all stages of a reading lesson. It’s vocabulary brought to life!
In their well-known and much welcomed thought-provoking style, Pat Cunningham and Dick Allington bring you the best research-based instructional advice available. Each of the brief and inexpensive books in the What Really Matters series features what Pat and Dick know about one aspect of teaching and learning to read independently with understanding. To learn more about the series see the inside front cover.
The material is excellent and the research is evident. Teachers can feel [Pat’s] enthusiasm for words!Tensil Clayton, retired curriculum supervisor, North Carolina
This latest work by Pat Cunningham will fill a gap in the current spate of vocabulary books on the market. She speaks to teachers in a way they understand andappreciate. Sharon Arthur Moore, staff developer, Arizona
[Pat’s] knowledge of words and classroom practice make a powerful combination and teachers will readily jump in and try the strategies she has proposed in this text. Any practicing teacher will appreciate the thoroughness of explanation and the variety of strategies offered.