Teaching Tip Tuesday: 8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Language from @edutopia #BISDwired

Looking for ways to teach academic vocabulary to your regular and ELL students?  Check out Edutopia's article "8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Language."  Here's a sneak peak at one of the strategies:
5. Dynamically Introduce Academic Vocabulary
Repeated encounters with a word in various authentic contexts can help students internalize the definition. They also benefit when teachers make their first encounters with vocabulary sticky. Use the word in a funny or personal story. Show a short video from VocabAhead that features 300 SAT words and categorizes vocabulary by grade level.
VocabAhead is a wonderful resource that could easily be used in conjunction with the strategies shared to BISD in our Vocabulary Magic training with Joanne Billingsley!

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