Vocabulary Their Way ─ Word Study With Middle and Secondary Students

In this new edition of the most comprehensive vocabulary text available, pre-service, novice, and experienced middle and high school teachers get invaluable tools to share with their students that will enable them to learn thousands of words independently. With an emphasis on developing students’ word consciousness–the knowledge and predisposition to learn, appreciate, and effectively use words–the book addresses three broad aspects of vocabulary learning and instruction: context-based instruction, word-specific instruction, and generative morphology instruction, as a means to enabling teachers to teach vocabulary their way.

The new edition features an expanded author team; separate chapter for the major disciplines/subjects, including a separate chapter on Art, Music, Physical Education, and Career and Technical Education; a new, easily-accessible format presenting the strategies, activities, and assessments; chapter notes directing readers to the PDToolkit online resource, new Activity Selection Charts in each chapter; referencing to the Common Core Standards in each activity and strategy; updated research throughout; a new look at Academic Language; and a revised ESL chapter with a strong new multilingual focus.

Shane Templeton is Foundation Professor Emeritus of Literacy Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. A former classroom teacher at the primary and secondary levels, his research has focused on developmental word knowledge in elementary, middle, and high school students, focusing primarily on the relationships between spelling, morphology, and vocabulary. He is widely published in a number of research and practitioner journals, and is co-author of Words Their Way, Words Their Way with Struggling Readers, 4-12, Words Their Way with English Learners, and, with Kristin Gehsmann, Teaching Reading and Writing: The Developmental Approach. Shane’s other books include Teaching the Integrated Language Arts and Children's Literacy. With Darrell Morris, he co-authored the chapter on “Spelling” in the Handbook of Reading Research, Volume 3; he is author of the entry on “Spelling Instruction” in the Encyclopedia of Education (2^nd ed., 2003), and the chapter on Spelling in the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts (3rd ed., 2011). Since 1987, Shane has been a member of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary.

Donald Bear is a professor in literacy education at Iowa State University where he teaches doctoral, master’s, and preservice teachers, and directs the Duffelmeyer Reading Clinic. He is also professor emeritus from the University of Nevada, Reno. Donald is involved in studies that examine literacy learning, particularly studies of orthographic development in different and second languages. His research explores the specific sequence students follow across the synchrony of literacy learning from beginning concept of word in prekindergarten to how morphology underlies academic vocabulary learning. He is an author and co-author of numerous articles, book chapters, and 12 books, including Words Their Way, 5^th edition, Words Their Way with English Learners, and Words Their Way with Struggling Readers, 4 – 12. He is an author on several instructional programs used throughout the United States. Donald is also involved in innovative professional development grants, and his work in assessment and word study is used widely. He has received several awards for teaching and service, and is currently a board member of the International Reading Association.

Marcia Invernizzi holds the Henderson Professorship in Reading Education at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education where she is also the Executive Director of the McGuffey Reading Center. She advises masters and doctoral students and teaches reading courses in the Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education. Her research on the subject of word study, reading disabilities, assessment, reading development, and intervention, has been published in journals including Reading Research Quarterly, The Journal of Literacy Research, The Reading Teacher, The Elementary School Journal, The Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Services, The Journal for the Education of Students Placed At Risk, Scientific Studies of Reading, Applied Psycholinguistics, and Early Childhood Research Quarterly. She is the primary author of Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS), a literacy assessment used widely across the nation. She is the co-founder of Book Buddies, a tutoring framework for struggling readers, and coauthor of Words Their Way. A former English and reading teacher, Marcia continues to work with teachers and their students at the McGuffey Reading Center.