# Language-focused learning activities

### At-a-glance

##### Topics
Literacy & reading

##### Resource Types
Excerpts

##### Author
Jennifer Wells Greene Ph.D., Averil Coxhead Ph.D.

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Read the excerpt from Academic Vocabulary for Middle School Students and view a sample language-focused learning activity. This activity explains and utilizes the Frayer Model to assist students in learning the spelling, grammatical, and morphological features of academic words in addition to their meanings.

[Read the excerpt](/content/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Greene-language-focused-learning-activities-1.pdf)