Word of the Week Academic Vocabulary Yearly Program Curriculum

Perfect for Tier 2 Vocabulary Building. These no-prep vocabulary activities and vocabulary worksheets focus on the most often used Tier II words used in texts and high stakes tests. The program provides scaffolded instruction for your General Education, ESL, and special education students.

Couple this program with Context Clues PowerPoint and Academic Vocabulary Task Cards and help your students become successful.

Upper Elementary and Secondary Level

This packet includes an entire curriculum’s worth of activities for 32 words. They are designed to be used in a “word of the week format.” There are enough words for 32 weeks of school.

The 32 words are:

accept, affect, analyze, anecdote, appropriate, brief, cause, classify, consistent, crucial, depict, describe, determine, develop, devise, differentiate, distinguish, effect, essential, evaluate, excerpt, explain, formulate, identify, incorporate, infer, interpret, issue, outcome, perspective, relevant, specific

The words are comprised of tier 2 cross content academic vocabulary. I carefully chose these words from lists of most commonly used academic words in texts and on high stakes tests.

I use these worksheets and vocabulary routine with my students. I know these are successful because my students consistently score an average of 95% on the post assessment. They also continue to have high retention of the words.

Included in the bundle: (total of 61 pages)

Teachers guide (12 pages)

- 12 step vocabulary routine

- complete activity instructions (for practice and retention)

Full Page 12 Step Vocabulary Routine for easier filing (1 page)

32 main vocabulary worksheets with 4 word set assessments (40 pages)

- (one main worksheet for each word, one assessment for each 4 word set)

Full Page Assessment Instructions (1 page)

Vocabulary Teaching Matrix (4 pages)

3 Bingo Cards (3X4, 4X4, 5X5) – (3 pages)

“Vocabulary Shine” Graphic Organizer

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