Word Wise and Content Rich: Five Essential Steps to Teaching Academic Vocabulary
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, 2008. Portsmouth, Heinemann.
Word Wise and Content Rich offers a five-part framework for teaching vocabulary that’s tailored to the needs of adolescent learners yet mindful of the demands on content-area teachers. Grounded in current research, this framework gives students the multiple encounters necessary to lock in the meaning of new words forever.
Fisher and Frey’s five-step model shows you how to:
• Make it intentional: select words for instruction and use word lists and up-to-date website
lists wisely
• Make it transparent: model word-solving and word-learning strategies for students
• Make it useable: offer learners the collaborative work and oral practice essential to
understanding concepts
• Make it personal: give and monitor independent practice so students take ownership of
words
• Make it a priority: create a schoolwide program for word learning.
Heinemann provides online resources for teachers to make the most of Word Wise and Content Rich, including chapter-by-chapter study guides, audio podcasts, and video podcasts.
Word Wise and Content Rich - PowerPoint
Learning Words Inside and Out: Creating a School-Wide Vocabulary Initiative - PowerPoint
Word Wise and Content Rich offers a five-part framework for teaching vocabulary that’s tailored to the needs of adolescent learners yet mindful of the demands on content-area teachers. Grounded in current research, this framework gives students the multiple encounters necessary to lock in the meaning of new words forever.
Fisher and Frey’s five-step model shows you how to:
• Make it intentional: select words for instruction and use word lists and up-to-date website
lists wisely
• Make it transparent: model word-solving and word-learning strategies for students
• Make it useable: offer learners the collaborative work and oral practice essential to
understanding concepts
• Make it personal: give and monitor independent practice so students take ownership of
words
• Make it a priority: create a schoolwide program for word learning.
Heinemann provides online resources for teachers to make the most of Word Wise and Content Rich, including chapter-by-chapter study guides, audio podcasts, and video podcasts.
Word Wise and Content Rich - PowerPoint
Learning Words Inside and Out: Creating a School-Wide Vocabulary Initiative - PowerPoint