101 Strategies to Make Academic Vocabulary Stick

ISBN-13: 9781416623106 Publisher: ASCD Publication date: 01/17/2017 Pages: 106 Sales rank: 360,251 Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d) Veteran educator Marilee Sprenger explains how to teach the essential, high-frequency words that appear in academic contexts—and reverse the disadvantages of what she calls "word poverty." Drawing on research and experience, Sprenger provides a rich array of engaging strategies to help educators across all content areas and grade levels not only teach students a large quantity of words but also ensure that they know these words well. You'll findAn overview of how the brain learns and retains new words, including the three stages of building long-term memories: encoding, storage, and retrieval.Encoding strategies to introduce words in novel ways and jump-start the memory process.Rehearsal strategies to help students put words into long-term storage.Review strategies to help students strengthen their retrieval skills and gain the automaticity