Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas ─ Reproducible Collection

Accelerate your student's academic language development with the second edition of the Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas program. This program:

Uses direct, explicit vocabulary instruction, which improves learning outcomes for ELLs and struggling learners.

Helps English learners and struggling learners acquire new content area vocabulary and build word knowledge from incremental, repeated and varied exposures to words.

Has an instructional routine that uses the research-based Gradual Release of Responsibility, Productive Partnering and other models as an efective way of increasing language acquisition.

Is standards based and aligned to the Common Core State Standards and other leading research on what works most efectively.

Uses scaffolded and differentiated instruction to improve vocabulary acquisition for English language learners.

Dorothy Kauffman, Ph.D., is a consultant with the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC, specializing in and an advocating for integrated instruction.

Kate Kinsella, Ed.D., is a teacher educator at San Francisco State University and a consultant to state departments of education and school districts.

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D., is a national expert in the design of assessments for English language learners and the lead developer for the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium.