"Research has shown vocabulary knowledge to be the best support for student comprehension of narrative and information texts. This text from an award-winning authority on teaching vocabulary and texts gives teachers new ways to think about and teach vocabulary by making small changes to their practices. It can be used with any reading program or materials. These adjustments will enhance practices with which teachers are already familiar, like using reading walls, and having conversations with student about words. They will greatly expand students' vocabulary and their ability to figure out on their own the meanings of new words that they encounter. This rich text provides the rationale and research for how to select and teach word families in new ways, and ends each chapter with practical classroom examples that show how teachers have implemented these changes to vocabulary instruction that will help student for the rest of their reading lives. It's like teaching students to fish instead of giving them a fish, giving them clusters of words, and new ways to see, understand, and add new words on their own"-- Provided by publisher.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Learning Words and How Words Work -- Vocabulary and Texts: A Two-Way Relationship -- Vocabulary Instruction: A Focus on Relationships Among Words, Not Individual Words -- How to Implement New Vocabulary Insights: Small Changes = Big Results -- The Last Word -- Chapter 2. Making Small Changes in Vocabulary Instruction -- Small Changes = Big Results: WHY -- Small Changes = Big Results: WHAT -- Small Changes = Big Results: HOW -- The Last Word -- Chapter 3. Why a Small Group of Word Families Is So Important -- The Evidence Small Changes = Big Results -- The Last Word -- Chapter 4. A Short History of English and Why It Matters -- The Evidence -- Small Changes = Big Results -- The Last Word -- Chapter 5. Recycling and Remixing: Multiple Meanings and Uses of Words -- The Evidence -- Small Changes = Big Results -- The Last Word -- Chapter 6. The Vocabulary Networks of Narrative Texts -- The Evidence -- Small Changes = Big Results -- The Last Word -- Chapter 7. The Vocabulary Networks of Informational Texts -- The Evidence -- Small Changes = Big Results -- The Last Word Chapter 8. Vocabulary and Text Complexity Systems -- The Evidence -- Small Changes = Big Results -- The Last Word -- Chapter 9. Different Labels But the Same Concepts: English Learners -- The Evidence -- Small Changes = Big Results -- The Last Word -- Children's Literature and Instructional Texts -- References -- Index -- About the Author