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1. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension
   Nagy describes the three methods of vocabulary instruction that most effectively improve comprehension and the teaching methods that employ them.
2. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Flip-A-Chip to Build Vocabulary
   This word-game strategy builds vocabulary and comprehension while motivating students.
3. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Overlapping Vocabulary and Comprehension: Context Clues Complement Semantic Gradients
   This teaching technique combines two strategies, context clues and semantic gradients, to help students make vocabulary-to-comprehension connections.
4. Professional Development | Professional Library  |  Journal
   Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and Spelling!)
   Argues that regular homophone practice enhances vocabulary knowledge, spelling skills, pronunciation ability, and overall reading proficiency. Describes how card games played with decks of homophones helped to accomplish these things. Notes particular benefits of homophone games to ESL students, and outlines key advantages of using the games.
5. Professional Development | Grades   1 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   eVoc Strategies: 10 Ways to Use Technology to Build Vocabulary
   Drawing on research-based principles of vocabulary instruction and multimedia learning, this article presents 10 eVoc strategies that use free digital tools and Internet resources to evoke students' engaged vocabulary learning.
6. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Words Are Wonderful: Interactive, Time-Efficient Strategies to Teach Meaning Vocabulary
   Help students enjoy success and enjoyment in learning vocabulary.
7. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Creating Strategic Readers: Techniques for Developing Competency in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
   Organized around the five essential components of reading instruction, this text lays the groundwork for a comprehensive literacy classroom.
8. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
   This popular collection provides literacy skill-building strategies for helping students learn in all curricular areas.
9. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Stop Pretending and Think about Plot
   Jago offers a review of Freytag’s Pyramid and an example of how work with the concept of plot structure positively affected student understanding and writing.
10. Professional Development | Grades   K – 3  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Small-Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching Model for Beginning and Struggling Readers
    Easy-to-use lesson plans and activities are included in this book to support five stages of reading development, from emergent to beginning, fledgling, transitional, and finally independent.

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