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Quite often these people have never actually used the book with students. It is generally a bad sign when the positive reviews on the back cover of the book are from PhDs. I think the ideas here are sound, but as I read I imagine a team of writers working together and spending many hours devising lessons. Working teachers don't have that much time.
A variety of strategies are provided to address the needs of readers across grade levels (sorry, but I disagree with those who believe that books, such as this one, should only address the needs of students at particular grade levels), that will prove useful to all teachers. . I would recommend this to anyone involved in teaching reading to children. Although this is a fairly short book (about 130 pages), it provides a lot of useful material. should certainly be a central goal for all reading teachers to transmit to their students. "Bring Words to Life" serves as an excellent reference for doing just that.
A must-buy for K6 teacher ^^ This is one of the books I bought for my Education (Reading and Writing) class. It's really good, both the theory and examples.
It is not a very exciting read for those outside of educational professions. This book does a great job of explaining the whys and hows of teaching vocabulary to children. It is a great read for teachers of any grade level or subject area.
I highly recommend it. This is an excellent book on teaching vocabulary to all grade levels. It is check full of ideas you can implement immediately with just enough philosophy to make the strategies understandable.
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