A01=Dianna Townsend
adolescent students and academic language
and social studies
Author_Dianna Townsend
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culturally sustaining pedagogiies
culturally sustaining teacher practice and vocabulary
disciplinary learning goals in science
diverse students and adolescent Literacy
ELA
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instructional routines
math
metalinguistic awareness and adolescent students
metalinguistic maps
middle school reading instruction
morphology
orthography
phonology
pragmatics
secondary school disciplinary literacy
semantics
sorts and matching tasks
syntax
teaching high school reading and vocabulary
vocabulary journals
vocabulary walls
Product details
- ISBN 9780807767634
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2022
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Help adolescents learn and use the academic words that will assist them in school and beyond. The author argues that "words worth using" must matter to adolescents' authentic work in the disciplines and connect to their lived experiences. Rather than using a model of vocabulary instruction that positions students as passive recipients who must simply memorize definitions, Townsend outlines a metalinguistic approach that shows students how to learn words by using them in ways that are meaningful to their identity, language background, and individual interests. The book provides research-based instructional routines to support adolescents as they learn and use new words in their disciplinary learning. It explores how academic vocabulary can position students as "insiders" or "outsiders," and how culturally sustaining instruction can welcome all students into discovering and using language. Words Worth Using will be a popular resource for teachers who feel stymied by the sheer volume of words they are expected to teach.
Book Features:
- An engaging exploration of adolescents and the kinds of powerful word learning that endure.
- Metalinguistic awareness as an underleveraged approach to helping adolescents develop word knowledge in engaging ways.
- A culturally sustaining pedagogy framework with specific attention to emergent bilinguals.
- "Words Worth Using" boxes that share the etymology and morphology of many important words throughout the text.
- A careful review and explanation of research accompanied by classroom anecdotes, real-world examples, and templates for teachers and instructional leaders to use in their own contexts.
Dianna Townsend is a professor of literacy studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.
