Camille Blachowicz

Areas of Expertise o Vocabulary Instruction o Professional Development in Literacy o Assessment and Diagnosis of Reading Development o Comprehension

Education o B.S. Loyola University, Chicago, English o M.Ed. Northeastern Illinois University, Reading and Language o Ph.D. Northwestern University, Reading Education

Career o Classroom Teacher and Reading Specialist o Professor Emeritus at the National College of Education of National Louis University o Co-editor of the Journal of Reading Behavior o Board member of the Literacy Research Association o Director of Reading Center and Reading Program o Co-Director of The Reading Leadership Institute o Co-Principal Investigator of the Multifaceted Comprehensive Vocabulary Instruction Program

Publications o Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms o Teaching Academic Vocabulary K-8: Effective Practices Across the Curriculum o Reading Diagnosis for Teachers: An Instructional Approach o Fluency Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices o Effective Literacy Coaching: Building Expertise and Culture of Literacy

Principles of Vocabulary Instruction o Develop word awareness and love of words through word play o Deliver explicit, rich instruction to develop important vocabulary o Build strategies for independence o Engage students actively with a wide range of books

Vocabulary Visits o Virtual field trips that use books to develop content vocabulary o Key components: read-aloud and active learning o Consists of: pre-writing assignment, group discussion with visual representation, read-aloud and thumbs-up, final writing assignment

Lesson Plan o Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Moon Trip o Prewrite: draw/write a list of words that relate to the moon o Group Discussion: suggesting, explaining, and questioning with the visual representation o Read-aloud and Thumbs-Up: If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty o Final Write: write a list of words that relate to the moon