Access 100+ effective, practical, and fun vocabulary exercises that take 20 minutes or less. Designed specifically for middle school and high school teachers of grades 6-12, each minilesson can be easily modified to fit your curriculum and your students'' needs. Rely on this resource to help refine your instruction and strengthen students'' vocabulary, their interest in reading, and their likelihood of success in the 21st century.

Learn how to increase vocabulary for high school and middle school students:

• Explore more than 100 short, memorable minilessons for teaching vocabulary that can be adapted to fit diverse curricula.
• Obtain suggestions for scaffolding and accelerating each short vocabulary activity to meet students'' individual needs.
• Target vocabulary words with the most crucial root words, prefixes, and suffixes in the English language to best employ instructional time.
• Find helpful resources on how to teach vocabulary, such as websites and applications.
• Gain research-based vocabulary learning strategies used in the minilessons.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Minilesson Management
Chapter 2: Supportive Strategies and Technology Tools
Chapter 3: Robust Roots
Chapter 4: Powerful Prefixes
Chapter 5: Super Suffixes
Chapter 6: Testing Terms
Chapter 7: Varied Voice
Appendix: Index of All Vocabulary Words Appearing in the Book
References and Resources
Index

Also see Vocabulary in a SNAP: 100+ Lessons for Elementary Instruction.