Pump Up the Volume: Making the Oral Vocabulary Connection

Filled with practical strategies, easy-to-implement activities, and time-saving reproducibles, this research-based book will help you build your students oral, or listening and speaking, vocabulary words they understand when heard and use when they speak. Drawing from years of experience in the classroom, Laureen has created a handy resource that shows you how to:

* boost your students vocabulary with effective brainstorming
* improve their listening comprehension
* develop their abilities to engage in high-quality conversation
* help them untangle the mystery of multiple-meaning words
* build a foundation for improved writing acumen and reading comprehension later on

As students develop their oral vocabularies, they aren t limited by their ability to read or write. If they can say a word and understand it, they can use it every day. Make them aware of how fabulous words can be. Choose the words carefully, shed light upon them frequently, and say them often. Make magic with words! (Grades K-3)