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Vocabu-Lit®
Grades 2–5
Word study in context
Build word power through high-quality contemporary and classic literature, nonfiction, essays, and primary source texts. Unlock word meaning through context clues and develop mastery using multiple, research-based vocabulary strategies. Each literature-based lesson focuses on eight to ten Master Words with exercises of increasing complexity to extract meaning, apply vocabulary skills and strategies, and assess mastery.
In less than 15 minutes per day, your students develop the word study skills they need to improve reading fluency and comprehension.
Titles in This Program
Program Features & Resources
Features
A full year of vocabulary support.
Each lesson includes
- a high-quality text selection introducing the Master Words.
- one writing activity per lesson to build word power.
- six to seven research-based word study activities per lesson such as
—using a dictionary
—inferring meaning and using context clues
—using synonyms
—recognizing word associations and relationships
—using Master Words in new contexts
—writing
—word games and puzzles
Review & Assessment
- Reproducible chapter tests.
- Unit reviews including context clues, word relationships, synonyms/antonyms, parts of speech, and much more.
- Unit and summative tests.
Teacher Materials
Teacher Editions
Includes a reproduction of the student edition with answers, a Master Word dictionary, and lesson tests.
Test Booklets (grade 5 only)
Includes unit tests and review tests. Sold in sets of 10 with answer key.
Look Inside
Sample Pages
- Grade 2 (Level B)
Student Edition | Teacher Edition - Grade 3 (Level C)
Student Edition | Teacher Edition - Grade 4 (Level D)
Student Edition | Teacher Edition - Grade 5 (Level E)
Student Edition | Teacher Edition
Research/Correlations
Research
Correlations
Common Core State Standards
Georgia
Georgia Performance Standards for Grades K-8 English Language Arts/Reading.
Mississippi
Mississippi Curriculum Frameworks, Language Arts.
Authors/Selections
Grade 2
from Frog and Toad Together, Lobel
from Just Fishing with Grandpa, Mayer & Mayer
from Manners Can Be Fun, Leaf
from Poppleton Everyday, Rylant
from Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Lionni
from The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, Scieszka
from Superfudge, Blume
Grade 3
from The Chocolate Touch, Skene Catling
from Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Cleary
from Sarah, Plain and Tall, MaLachlan
from The Cay, Taylor
from My Life in Dog Years, Paulsen
from The Hundred Dresses, Estes
from The Islander, Rylant
from The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Bellairs
from Captain Grey, Avi
from The Whipping Boy, Fleischman
Grade 4
from Charlotte's Web, White
from The Pinballs, Byars
from Tuck Everlasting, Babbitt
from The View from Saturday, Konigsburg
from James and the Giant Peach, Dahl
from Soccer Scoop, Christopher
from Rivers, Hurwitz
from In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Bao Lord
from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, O'Brien
from Harriet the Spy, Fitzhugh
from The Grey King, Cooper
from You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, Fritz
Grade 5
from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Taylor
from Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi
from Hatchet, Paulsen
from Abel's Island, Steig
from Maniac Magee, Spinelli
from A Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle
from Ella Enchanted, Carson Levine
from Shades of Gray, Reeder
from The Family Under the Bridge, Savage
from "The Speckled Band," Conan Doyle
from From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Konigsburg
from Call It Courage, Sperry
from To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
from Ben and Me, Lawson
from Backwater, Bauer
from The Great Gilly Hopkins, Paterson