Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas: Workbook

by Gary Apple (Joint Author), Dorothy Bukantz, Dorothy Kauffman

Overview

The Workbook provides practice and reinforcement of the vocabulary presented in each Dictionary page. Clear and simple instructions make it an invaluable tool for independent use in the classroom or at home. Fun and engaging activities include categorizing, labeling, matching, unscrambling, and puzzle solving. A separate Workbook Answer Key found in the Teacher's Book provides the answers to the activities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780194343374
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	01/28/2000
Series:	Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas Series
Edition description:	Workbook
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.18(d)
Age Range:	3 Years

About the Author

Dorothy Kauffman, (Ph.D.), author of The Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas, is a consultant with the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC. Through CAL, she advocates for instruction that integrates the teaching of language and content and conducts professional development workshops at both the elementary and secondary levels. A former classroom teacher, she has served as a K-8 reading consultant and taught speech, reading, and English composition courses at the community college level. At the university level, she has taught reading methods, language arts methods, childrens literature, and supervised student teachers. The author of a supplementary reading series for grades 1-6 and a set of content-based ESL literature units for grades K-1, she helped to develop a social studies curriculum and textbooks for primary grade students of Belize. She also wrote a series of English language arts workbooks for students in grades K-5. Most recently, she revised the first edition of a staff development program, Whats Different about Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?