-- "Disciplinary Voice" made at Wordle.com

academic vocabulary enhancement:

• Vocabulary: critical component to comprehension - (Joshi, 2005, Reading and Writing Quarterly)
• Teaching Literacy Across the Curriculum - NCLE featured resources on developing academic vocabulary (chapters and webinars) from Heather Lattimer's book Reading for Learning: Using Discipline-Based texts to Build Content Knowledge  
• Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary (5:30) - describes CCSS shift to a 3-tiered focus on academic vocabulary
  
• 8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Language -- (January, 2014) Todd Finley Blog post at Edutopia

academic language:

• They Say/I Say: The moves that matter in academic writing 3rd Edition (2014) -- includes chapters on writing in science, social sciences and literary criticism
• Closing the Vocabulary Gap: What Research Says - EdLeadership brief (2010)
• 8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Language - Ted Finley at edutopia (2014)

technology tools for teaching vocabulary:

• 10 eVoc strategies (using technology to teach vocabulary) -- Reading Rockets (see especially caption writing activity)
• 21 digital tools for vocabulary building --
  
• Wordle and Wordsift to visually represent concepts through word mapping
• Academic Vocab Highlighter - cut and paste software that highlights academic words
• Phrasr by Pimpampum - pairs words with images, creating visual phrases
  
• Free Rice - vocabulary quizzes. Every right answer = 10 grains of rice donated to world hunger program
• Visual Thesaurus - word mapping software