<div><em>This book is a natural for a teacher study group. It is well worth the time spent reading and discussing with colleagues because the ideas it holds are basic to rethinking and transforming vocabulary teaching.</em></div> <div style="text-align: right;"><strong>-Karen Bromley</strong></div> <div style="text-align: right;">Binghamton University, SUNY</div> <br /> <div>How do you teach students the words that are crucial to unlocking the concepts in your content area? Until now "assign, define, test" has been the default strategy. But with <em>Word Wise and Content Rich</em>, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey bring vocabulary in out of the cold and into the heart of daily classroom practice in English, math, science, and history. </div> <div><em>Word Wise and Content Rich</em> offers a five-part framework for teaching vocabulary that's tailored to the needs of adolescent learners yet mindful of the demands on content-area teachers. Grounded in current research, this framework gives students the multiple encounters necessary to lock in the meaning of new words forever. <span>Fisher and Frey's five-step modelshows you how to:</span></div> <ul> <li><strong>Make it intentional</strong>: select words for instruction and use word lists and up-to-date website lists wisely </li> <li><strong>Make it transparent</strong>: model word-solving and word-learning strategies for students </li> <li><strong>Make it useable</strong>: offer learners the collaborative work and oral practice essential to understanding concepts </li> <li><strong>Make it personal</strong>: give and monitor independent practice so students own words </li> <li><strong>Make it a priority</strong>: create a schoolwide program for word learning. </li> </ul> <div>Use <em>Word Wise and Content Rich</em>, and close the word gap between low-achieving and high-achieving students. With its strategies, every student in your class-in your school-can access the textbook and develop the vocabulary needed for success in content-area reading.</div> <div>Read <em>Word Wise and Content Rich </em>and get the last word on great vocabulary teaching.</div>