Professional Books

• Bringing Words to Life
• Vocabulary for the Common Core
• Building Academic Vocabulary Teacher’s Manual
• Teaching Academic Vocabulary K-8:  Effective Practices across the Curriculum
• Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms (Fifth Edition) 

A Look at the Academic Vocabulary Shift in Schools/District

• Berkley, CA School District 87
• Bethalto, IL School District 8

Critical Directions

• International Reading Association Guidelines

• Common Core State Standards – Appendix A, pages 32—35

PowerPoints

• Professional Development:  Illinois State Board of Education
  • Facilitator’s Guide K-12
  • PowerPoint with Notes
  • Handouts: Building Academic Vocabulary
  • Handouts: Building an Academic Vocabulary
• Professional Development:  Oregon Department of Education K-5
  • Facilitator’s Guide K-5
  • PowerPoint with Notes
  • Handouts: Standards 
  • Handouts: Text Exemplar 
  • Handouts: Reflections
• Professional Development:  Oregon Department of Education 6-12
  • Facilitator’s Guide 6-12
  • PowerPoint with Notes
  • Handouts: Text Exemplar
  • Handouts: Text Standards
  • Handouts: Reflections
• Professional Development: Rhode Island Department of Education Academic Vocabulary
• Facilitator’s Guide
• PowerPoint 
• Handouts: Text Example: Volcanoes
• Handouts: Text Example: Freedom Walkers
• Handouts: Three Tiers of Words
• Handouts: Instructional Guide for General Academic Vocabulary
• Handouts: Freedom Walkers
• Handouts: Gettysburg Address

• "Power Up What Works" Context Clue Resources
  • Introductory Presentation on Context Clues
  • Context Clues Strategy Guide
  • Professional Development Materials (on right side)

Research/ Articles

• Bintz, William. (2011). Teaching vocabulary across the curriculum.  Middle School Journal, 42(4), 44-53.
• Bromley, K. (2007).Nine things every teacher should know about words and vocabulary instruction. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 50(7), 528-537.
• Feezell, G. (2012).  Robust vocabulary instruction in a readers' workshop .  The Reading Teacher ,  66 ( 3 ), 233–237.
• Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2011).  Academic language in the secondary classroom. Principal Leadership, 11(6), 64-66.
• Wasik, B.A. & Iannone-Campbell, C. (2012/2013). Developing vocabulary through purposeful, strategic conversations. The Reading Teacher, 66(4), 321–332.

• Reading Rockets Article on Context Clues
• Melanie R Kuhn and Steven A. Stahl. Teaching Children to Learn Word Meanings from Context: A Synthesis and Some Questions.  Journal of Literacy Research  
• Engage NY: Context Clues Guide
• Vocabulary Acquisition Through Written Input (ELL)

Handouts

• Arechiga, D. (2012).  Four key ways to help English language learners improve their academic vocabulary.  Larchmont, NY:  Eye On Education. 
• Blachowicz, C., Fisher, P. & Watts-Taffe, S. (2005). Integrated vocabulary instruction:  Meeting the needs of diverse learners in grade k-5.Naperville, IL: Learning Point Associates.
• Stone, B., & Urquhart, V. (2008). Remove limits to learning with systematic vocabulary instruction.  Denver: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning.

Academic Vocabulary Flipchart A flip chart containing Marzano’s 6 Steps.

 Videos

• Dr. Doug Bears discusses vocabulary and deep spelling instruction in this two part series
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• ASCD video – Robert Marzano’s Six Steps to Teaching Academic Vocabulary

PBS Learning Academic Vocabulary Videos 

• YouTube Videos on Context Clues
  • How to Use context to Determine the Meaning of Words - Student Friendly
  • The Night of the Context Clues - Student Friendly
  • Context Clues Mini Lesson from a Teacher

 Podcast/Webinars

Academic Language and English Language Learners:  An overview to academic language instruction for English language learners, as well as teaching strategies, activity ideas, and recommended resources.

 Websites

• Oklahoma's Department of Education
• West Virginia Department of Education Graphic organizers, vocabulary strategies, words play as well as vocabulary tips and hints.  This website gives additional websites to check out.
• Voki is a free service that lets you create customized avatars, add voice to your Voki avatars, post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile and have access to Voki’s learning resources.

• Tennessee’s Academic Vocabulary Project has several games that are available to play based on common terms and phrases to their district and schools.
• New York Learns: New York's Curriculum Vocabulary Lists: Scroll to bottom to find the Lists.
• 3 Free tools for Vocabulary Learning - Context Clues