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.

This new edition, which is part of the Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas Program, contains
over 1,600 words presented with clear, vibrant illustrations to meet the needs of today's language learners.
- Unit Expansion pages develop academic reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills using content-area vocabulary
- Exercises in every topic combine content-area vocabulary with the academic language learners need to be successful
- Additional social studies, science, and math topics support the vocabulary learners encounter in their content-area classes
- Teacher Web site provides extra resources and reference material