Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas English Dictionary

by Dorothy Kauffman, Gary Apple, Kate Kinsella (With)

Overview

Accelerate your student's academic language development with the second edition of the Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas program. This program:

Uses direct, explicit vocabulary instruction, which improves learning outcomes for ELLs and struggling learners.

Helps English learners and struggling learners acquire new content area vocabulary and build word knowledge from incremental, repeated and varied exposures to words.

Has an instructional routine that uses the research-based Gradual Release of Responsibility, Productive Partnering and other models as an efective way of increasing language acquisition.

Is standards based and aligned to the Common Core State Standards and other leading research on what works most efectively.

Uses scaolded and dierentiated instruction to improve vocabulary acquisition for English language learners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780194525008
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/25/2010
Series:	Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas 2e
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	129,622
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Dorothy Kauffman, Ph.D., is a consultant with the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC, specializing in and advocating for integrated instruction.

Kate Kinsella, Ed.D., is a teacher educator at San Francisco State University and a consultant to state departments of education and school districts.