Word Lists: Choices and Uses

    Word Lists: Choices and Uses

    Presentation summary:

    Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and facilitator of the California Vocabulary Forum, will lead this interactive online presentation on the role of word lists in vocabulary instruction. The uses of particular word lists in the design and implementation of vocabulary programs that seek to close the gap between high- and low-achieving students will be the focus of the presentation.

    Clips from an audiotaped interview with Robert J. Marzano, author of Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement (ASCD, 2004) and Building Academic Vocabulary (with D.J. Pickering, ASCD, 2005), will be included in the webcast.

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    Author: Elfrieda H. Hiebert, TextProject, University of California, Santa Cruz

    Citation:

    Webinar presented on May 24, 2007.  Hosted by SchoolsMovingUp.