The New York Times – Rebekah O’Dell
“To help us celebrate Vocabulary Week here on The Learning Network, we asked the English teacher and writer Rebekah O’Dell to share an idea that has transformed instruction for her middle school students at St. Michael’s Episcopal School in Richmond, Va. She writes that creating what she calls language field guides has made her students into “explorers, mining words for nuanced meaning” instead of passive recipients taking in basic definitions.” (more)