Merging recent research and content-area teaching strategies to show teachers how to help students use and understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks, tests, articles, and other informational texts. Each tool fulfills a specific instructional purpose:

• building background knowledge
• teaching words that are critical to comprehension
• providing support during reading and writing exercises
• developing a conceptual framework
• assessing students' understanding of words and concepts

Inside Words builds on Janet's previous work to provide a much-needed resource for teaching vocabulary across the content areas. Online video and resources complement this invaluable guide.