"Secondary educators face crucial questions when shaping their vocabulary instruction -- what words to target and how to foster self-directed student learning. Vocabulary in a SNAP: 100+ lessons for secondary instruction by Angela B. Peery provides more than one hundred research-based minilessons that help teachers efficiently shape instruction, each taking no more than twenty minutes of instructional time. Grades 6-12 teachers can modify these flexible, effective lessons to fit their curriculum and their students' needs. With these tools, educators can collect data on student learning and refine their instruction to strengthen students' vocabulary, their confidence and interest in reading, and their likelihood of success in the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher.

Minilesson management -- Supportive strategies and technology tools -- Robust roots -- Powerful prefixes -- Super suffixes -- Testing terms -- Varied voice.