Elementary educators face crucial questions when shaping their vocabulary teaching methods--what vocabulary words to target and how to foster self-directed learning. SNAP (Seeing/Saying, Naming, Acting, and Producing) can help increase student confidence and interest in reading and improve 21st century skills.

This innovative book provides more than 100 research-based mini-lessons with vocabulary exercises to help teachers efficiently shape instruction, each taking no more than 20 minutes of instructional time. Teachers can modify these flexible, effective templates to fit their curriculum and their students' needs.

Learn how to refine your teaching methods to increase students' vocabularies:

• Explore more than 100 short vocabulary lessons that can be adapted to fit diverse curricula.
• Obtain scaffolding and acceleration suggestions to meet students' individual needs.
• Target the most crucial root words, prefixes, and suffixes in English vocabulary to best employ instructional time.
• Find helpful technology resources for vocabulary instruction, such as websites and applications.
• Peruse an alphabetized vocabulary list of all the words featured in the lessons.

"What students do during the entire SNAP mini-lesson is formative practice designed not only to enhance vocabulary but to increase student enjoyment of learning about words."