Sentences with phrase «words across content areas»

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Colleges, universities, and employers want students to be able to acquire, evaluate, synthesize, and apply their skills and knowledge across content areas to solve real - word problems.

The Vocab Rehab model in this book offers teachers easy - to - implement, 10 - minute instructional strategies that can help time - strapped teachers ensure that their students have a sound grasp of both general and content - specific words across grade levels and subject areas.

Arena Press: Teaching Reading Sourcebook, Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures, and Word ID: Assessment Across the Content Areas

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.

The authors describe Word Generation, a whole - school vocabulary program that introduces students to academic words that commonly occur across content areas.

These are words that commonly appear across genres and content areas and that are essential for understanding most informational text (for example, ignite, commit, and dedicate).

Participants engaged with materials and activities in whole group and small groups that demonstrate that science lessons can be richer, deeper learning experiences when we, 1) slow down the process and provide repeated experience over time with key concepts (e.g., observing and exploring ingredients one day; making play dough another day), 2) incorporate language and literacy into science explorations intentionally (e.g., using informational texts; using visual aids and key words in DLL children's home language), and 3) connect science to other content areas and provide extension activities that continue conceptual learning across time and across the classroom (e.g., measurement with ingredients; discussing other types of mixtures during snack time).