Have you ever forgotten what someone just told you? Have your students ever forgotten to take their books and assignments home with them? Then this book is for you Memory expert Marilee Sprenger uses the latest research on learning, memory, and the brain to weave a storyteller's spell using two parallel parables: one is a tale of adult educators in a Memory 101 workshop, and the other is a story for the child within us all that includes magical talking elephants, lions, and jungle creatures.

The updated edition of Sprenger's bestseller demonstrates how to optimize achievement by using brain-based strategies that address students' social/emotional, cognitive, and physical learning preferences.

The 55 critical words students need to know and understand to be successful with Common Core State Standards.

Find out how to make time every day to teach vocabulary through direct, explicit instruction that is also creative, interesting, and fun for students. Teacher and author Marilee Sprenger explains a new and effective approach to teaching vocabulary that calls for exploration, discovery, and playing with words--all in just 10 minutes per class. She offers Advice on how to focus short lessons so that students are fully engaged. Teaching tips that help ensure new words stick. A varied selection of novel strategies for teaching new words to students. Here's a way to jump-start your vocabulary...

100] strategies any teacher can use to help students build a robust academic vocabulary that will empower them to succeed in school and in life.