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Vocabulary Development Across In-Person & Remote School Days

Stacey Shubitz
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I felt myself smiling as I read chapter one of A Teacher’s Guide to Vocabulary Development Across the Day by Tanya S. Wright Tanya started off the book with a story about one of her daughter’s earliest mispronunciations. Her story made me remember the time my daughter referred to a caterpillar as a “killer-patter.” Isabelle had been learning about the butterfly life cycle and was trying to show off her newfound knowledge by using the word caterpillar in conversation. I was able to help her pronounce caterpillar correctly and she used it properly in a sentence. However, we still laugh about this mispronunciation to this day.

A Teacher’s Guide to Vocabulary Development Across the Day is part of the Classroom Essentials series, which means it focuses on an essential practice providing you with the fundamental information needed to try or refine a given classroom practice. You’ll want to check out this book if you’ve been providing explicit vocabulary instruction to your students or you want to get away from rote memorization of vocabulary lists. Tanya’s book is highly visual, which means it includes lots of sidebars, figures, and student work examples. Also, there are seven videos, so you can learn how to support young students’ vocabulary development across a school day. 

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Speaking of videos, last month I chatted with Tanya about her book and the way teachers can keep robust vocabulary instruction going in a remote teaching setting. If you haven’t read Tanya’s book yet, our conversation will give you a sense of her expertise in vocabulary instruction. If you have read it, then I hope you’ll enjoy learning more about her ideas for remote instruction if you are not teaching in-person with your students right now.

Our conversation begins at 0:48.

GIVEAWAY INFORMATION

  • This giveaway is for a copy of A Teacher’s Guide to Vocabulary Development Across the Day by Tanya S. Wright. Many thanks to Heinemann Publishing for donating a copy for one reader.
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Published by Stacey Shubitz

I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island. I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010). I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.

23 thoughts on “Vocabulary Development Across In-Person & Remote School Days”

  1. I am thinking of how to give parents ideas to enrich vocabulary at home and I’m intending to ramp up my interactive read alouds especially if remote in Jan. Handing out $100 words in a folder to students is agreeably ineffective. Thank you for this!

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  13. I adore this whole series of books because they are clear and concise! They are easy to share with teaching you are coaching because they’re not overwhelming and you know the information is solid. This would be a great vocabulary resource to add to my toolkit!

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  15. This book will help while I coach my teachers! We coaches are always in the look out for new, fresh ideas to support our schools. This one looks like a most for every coach and teacher!

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  20. I have been eyeing this book since it came out. I’d love to learn more ways to build vocabulary in an authentic and meaningful way.

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