101 Strategies to Make Academic Vocabulary Stick

Veteran educator Marilee Sprenger explains how to teach the essential, high-frequency words that appear in academic contexts—and reverse the disadvantages of what she calls "word poverty." 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. You'll find

• An overview of how the brain learns and retains new words, including the three stages of building long-term memories: encoding, storage, and retrieval.
• Encoding strategies to introduce words in novel ways and jump-start the memory process.
• Rehearsal strategies to help students put words into long-term storage.
• Review strategies to help students strengthen their retrieval skills and gain the automaticity needed for reading comprehension.
• Ways to address planning and assessment as crucial, intersecting supports of a robust vocabulary program.

This comprehensive resource has everything you need to help your students profoundly expand their vocabulary, enabling them to speak, read, and write with greater understanding and confidence.

Marilee Sprenger is a highly regarded educator, presenter, and author who has taught students from prekindergarten through graduate school and has been translating neuroscience research into practice for more than 20 years. The author of 11 books and numerous articles, Marilee is a popular keynote speaker who has engaged audiences throughout the United States and internationally. A member of the American Academy of Neurology, she stays abreast of the latest brain research and is passionate about brain research–based teaching strategies that incorporate differentiated instruction, work with the brain's memory systems, and wire the brain for success.