Provide effective academic vocabulary instruction for your students with short daily vocabulary lessons!
Use these 15-minute lessons to teach your students95 key academic vocabulary wordsthat they are likely to encounter in their daily lessons.
These are a few examples of the words presented in this book:
- approach, consider, feature
- arrangement, consist, generalize
- assist, effect, inquire
- claim, expect, productive
The top 2 reasons to make academic vocabulary one of the cornerstones of your literacy program:- Vocabulary knowledge is one of the most reliable predictors of academic success. Studies show a major difference over time between the achievement levels of children who enter school with a strong oral vocabulary and those who begin their schooling with a limited vocabulary.
- Knowing academic vocabularythe vocabulary of learningis essential for students to understand concepts presented in school.
Each week ofDaily Academic Vocabularyfollows the same five-day format, making the content more accessible for both students and teachers.
Each lesson beginsby introducing the words to students, having students pronounce the words, reading the definition, reading an example sentence, and then elaborating on the meaning of the words using the suggestions on the teacher lesson plan page.
Days 1-4activities are used to assess students understanding of the word(s) with engaging reproducible worksheets.
Day 5activities are used to review and assess mastery of all the words from the week. The review contains four multiple-choice items and a writing activity that provides opportunities for students to use one or more of the weeks words.
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