Vocabulary

Vocabulary Resources

Wide pleasure and academic reading, including read alouds, contributes to a great deal of incidental vocabulary growth, which in turn helps with reading comprehension and other literacy skills.

Add in some explicit vocabulary instruction to boost learning even more. Select words from your student's existing materials, or use one or more specialized resources such as the ones below.

General Vocabulary Workbooks

• Evan Moor: Daily Academic Vocabulary - Grades 2-6. Focuses on academic vocabulary

• Wordly Wise 3000 - Grades K-12. Also produced in a digital format which is not available using student allocations

Roots, Prefixes & Suffixes

Vocabulary from Classical Roots - Grades 3-11. Students learn vocabulary through the study of Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes. There is one workbook per grade level with a separate answer key.

SocraTeaser - Grades 4-12. A game similar to rummy, but using Greek roots

CaesarPleaser - Grades 4-12. A card games based on Latin root, prefixes, and suffixes

Word Relationships

• Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Word Nuances - Grades 2-6. Leveled workbooks.

• Classwords: The Vocabulary Game - Grades 2-4. Available in three versions:

1. Classwords Grade 2

2. Classwords Grade 3

3. Classwords Grade 4

More Resources

• Blurt! - In this game, players hear definitions and race to respond with the correct word

• Helping Your Kid With . . . Building Academic Vocabulary - A video for parents produced by the Meadows Center, University of Texas at Austin. The video explains how to select vocabulary words and provides a routine to use with your student.

• Core Vocabulary Word Maps - Grades K-12. A comprehensive resource based on the word families which make up the words in more than 90 percent of texts from grade one and above. The words are grouped by meaning and by word family within each grade band: K-1, 2-3, 4-6, 6 & above.

• Some books to inspire learning about words:

  1. EHK12 Library: The Word Collector - A children's picture book about a child who loves words

  2. EHK12 Library: Frindle by Andrew Clements - A fiction book about a fifth grader who creates a new word

  3. Vocabulary cartoons - There are a variety of published resources available