Brassell (teacher education, California State U., Dominguez Hills) supplies K-6 teachers with 25 research-based strategies for helping students develop vocabulary. A variety of strategies are presented, including analogies, concept ladders, exclusion brainstorming, idioms, interactive word walls, journals, read-alouds, scavenger hunts, vocabulary cards, and word riddles, with procedures, adaptation and differentiation ideas, examples by teachers who have used them, curricular goals, and work samples. This edition has new games and classroom activities, reproducible worksheets, and updated and expanded online resources. The previous edition was published by Academic Professional Development. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)