Building Academic Vocabulary: Teacher’s Manual (Professional Development)

The teacher’s helper is precisely what this item means to me. This book helped me plan engaging lessons that increased my students' vocabulary. I could enhance the lessons to fit the standards my students must master for their grade level. The contents of this book gave me wonderful ideas on how to make my classroom more rigorous.

Good for the price. I bought this for a grad school class. Gives actual vocabulary activities and an approach to teaching vocab. I will be using to supplement my teaching at the high school level, but it can also be used at any other level. Easy read.

Excellent condition and perfect price. Arrived quickly, clean, and no smells. I’m glad to add this to my teaching texts.

Great book

Marzano has a lot of great ideas and good points to make in this book. It is written in a way that is accessible to a regular practitioner -- you don't have to be a PhD to understand it! The area of content vocabulary instruction is so important -- and this book helps make it happen. I especially appreciated the sections on teaching ELLs.

I bought this to use with my older speech therapy kids who struggle with vocabulary (primarily ages 11-15) after it was referenced at an ASHA schools conference. It's a good resource, though it seems better suited for a full classroom with a set curriculum than a one-on-one set-up. I was surprised and slightly disappointed by how thin it was and expected more solid vocabulary lists and teaching strategies than I felt were provided. There are a lot of good reproducibles and start-up ideas, but I didn't find it to be a go to for finding words and ways to link known to new vocabulary without having to teach a full course of background subject knowledge.

I bought this for use in my teaching. Great resource.

This book addresses specific content area vocabulary and K-12 grade levels. In addition, the book instructs teachers how to design a vocabulary program, create useful vocabulary lists, activities, and games. it is well worth buying.