Description & Features

Authored by field expert and vocabulary specialist Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Teaching Basic and Advanced Vocabulary provides strategies to help build general background knowledge of instrumental vocabulary by introducing terms in semantic clusters. This innovative approach is designed to maximize students' understanding of new words by creating a framework of meaning through context.

• More than 8,000 basic and advanced vocabulary terms
• Semantic clusters that group related words together
• Comparison, classification, analogy and metaphor activities to strengthen comprehension skills
• Snapshot assessment for comprehension evaluation