In this month's issue of The Reading Teacher, there's an excellent article, "The Vocabulary-Rich Classroom: Modeling Sophisticated Word Use to Promote Word Consciousness and Vocabulary Growth,"  which deals with ways teachers can broaden students' vocabularies.  Holly B. Lane and Stephanie Arriaza Allen, the article's authors, provide concrete examples from a kindergarten and a 4th grade… Continue reading Building Bigger Vocabularies Through Books: Part 1 of 2