Janet Allen (1) (1950–)

Excellent book on teaching vocabulary. Includes many practical, usable techniques, in addition to assessment methods. Alternatives to drill and kill methods that have been shown to work only until the test is taken.

This book is wonderful! Allen presents solid research of vocabulary acquisition in reader friendly languate. Her she provides models for the strategies provided in the book. If you are a teacher you need this book, regardless of content area. (Everyone teaches vocabulary.

Flip charts are created to condense teaching or learning ideas quickly on either one or two facing pages. Allen, the widely known reading expert provides both explanation flip chart pages but also reproducible worksheets that provide techniques to build understanding as students read. Among the techniques include: knowledge chat, point-of-view guide, double- and triple-entry journals, PQ4R, Writing to Learn, and reasoning guide. Such guides or teaching tips for reading can be combined with show more the Koeschlin/Zwaan Building Info Smarts from the same publisher to stimulate ideas for attacking various problems that collaborators are trying to solve. As such, they can stimulate creativity. Thus, we recommend such professional tools to be on a handy shelf where teachers and teacher librarians plan. It is essential to have a bag of tested teaching and learning tricks as the basis of a stimulating collaboration. show less

A great resource for teachers who are always in a hurry!