Academic Vocabulary Toolkit Grade 4: Student Text (Summer School) - Softcover

Kinsella, Dr. Kate; Hancock, Theresa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1305079337 ISBN 13: 9781305079335

Publisher: National Geographic School Pub, 2014

Synopsis

Dr. Kate Kinsella's NEW Academic Vocabulary Toolkit for Elementary grades is designed to prepare students in grades 3, 4, and 5 for the lexical demands of academic speaking, reading and writing in a Common Core State Standards era. The program ensures students have daily explicit, interactive, and carefully monitored academic language instruction. Students are provided the opportunity to not only learn high-use academic words, but also correctly employ these words in speaking and writing exercises. Using Dr. Kate Kinsella's unique vocabulary teaching process, students will receive the tools needed to master key academic vocabulary, re-engage in school settings, and increase scores on state assessments.

About this title

About the Author:

Kate Kinsella, Ed.D., is a teacher educator at San Francisco State University and a highly sought after speaker and consultant to school districts throughout the United States regarding development of academic language and literacy across the K-12 subject areas. Her 25-year teaching career focus has been equipping children from diverse backgrounds with the communication, reading, and writing skills to be career and college ready. Dr. Kinsella remains active in K-12 classrooms by providing in-class coaching and by teaching an academic literacy class for adolescent English Learners. Her extensive publishing career includes articles, chapters, English Learners' dictionaries, and reading intervention programs. A former Fulbright TESOL lecturer, Dr. Kinsella was co-editor of the CATESOL Journal from 2000-2005 and served on the editorial board of the TESOL Journal from 1999-2003. Dr. Kinsella lives in California with her family, including two young adopted children, Jane Dzung from Vietnam and John Carlos from Guatemala.

Theresa has worked side-by-side with Dr. Kinsella in several districts writing and piloting lessons, and successfully training and coaching teachers. She is an informed and engaging trainer who will ensure that you leave inspired and ready to bring this explicit and interactive instruction to life in your own classrooms.

About this edition

• Publisher: National Geographic School Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1305079337
• ISBN 13: 9781305079335
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1