Ad lit.org: Vocabulary

This is a collection of four videos about teaching vocabulary. The first is a principal discussing a school-wide approach to vocabulary improvement; the second is a director of the academic English at the University of California discussing academic vocabulary and strategies to teach it. The third one is a college professor discussing the need for explicit instruction of vocabulary, multiple exposure to the vocabulary, the "bricks" and "mortar" words, and the 3 tiers of vocabulary. The last video is of teachers and their students teaching vocabulary.