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 e?ective way of increasing language acquisition.Is standards based and aligned to the Common Core State Standards and other leading research on what works most e?ectively.Uses sca?olded and di?erentiated instruction to improve vocabulary acquisition for English language learners.