# Academic Vocabulary for Middle School Students

Research-Based Lists and Strategies for Key Content Areas

**Jennifer Wells Greene, Ph.D., Averil Coxhead, Ph.D.**

Teach middle school students the academic vocabulary words they need to know to master the content in their textbooks. This book gives educators five extensive, research-based lists of vocabulary words frequently used in textbooks, plus guidance and activities to help them teach the words.

**HELP MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS:**

- Strengthen academic vocabulary knowledge in five key school subjects
- Master the content they need to know under the Common Core State Standards
- Understand _why_ the words they encounter in textbooks are important
- Improve comprehension and eliminate roadblocks to understanding what they read
- Increase school success (for _all_ students, including English language learners and those with disabilities)

**PRACTICAL MATERIALS:** Five research-based lists of hundreds of academic vocabulary words, each one devoted to a key content area. Plus helpful discussion questions and 15 detailed vocabulary instruction activities, including "fix-ups" for struggling readers and English language learners and extensions that build on the activities.

## Reviews

1. **Deborah Reed, Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University - December 1, 2014**  
   "A practical but theoretically-motivated approach to the difficult task of improving middle school students’ academic vocabulary … provides the clear guidance that teachers crave for determining what and how vocabulary instruction should be happening in the key content areas."

2. **Nancy Frey, San Diego State University - December 1, 2014**  
   "What an invaluable resource! Busy educators will love the methods for integrating vocabulary lists into meaningful content instruction. This is a must on any teacher’s bookshelf."

3. **Joseph Dimino, Senior Research Associate, Instructional Research Group, Los Alamitos, California - November 25, 2014**  
   "An invaluable resource that should be in every middle school teacher’s professional library … will help educators increase students’ knowledge of the vocabulary they need to know to comprehend text well."

Authors: **[Jennifer Wells Greene Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=30821&Name=Jennifer+Wells+Greene+Ph.D.), [Averil Coxhead Ph.D.](https://products.brookespublishing.com/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=30820&Name=Averil+Coxhead+Ph.D.)**

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- 100-question vocabulary size test

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| STOCK NUMBER | ISBN |
| 73053 | 978-1-59857-305-3 |
| COPYRIGHT | PAGES |
| 2015 | 192 |
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