Vocabu-Lit

Building Vocabulary Through Literature

Fourth Edition

Grades 2 - 12
Product Code SERIES ( MR #059029 )

* Regional restriction: This item is only available for sale within Canada.

Research/Literature-based vocabulary instruction.

This best-selling series teaches vocabulary words and strategies through selections from outstanding grade-level appropriate fiction and nonfiction. Many of the excerpts are from literature commonly read in the classroom, so vocabulary-building instruction can be integrated into your curriculum.

Research-based

selection of master words and instructional pedagogy grounded in scientific studies of the most effective strategies to learn vocabulary

Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and others

Literature-based context

words are introduced in the rich context of selections commonly used in the classroom

classic and contemporary literary passages and multicultural authors
Exemplar and Exemplar Author texts
50 percent of each book is informational selections from three categories of informational texts
English Language Arts; History/Social Studies; and Science, Mathematics, and Technical subjects

In-depth exposure

300 master words in each Student Edition

10 words per lesson with six activities for each provide multiple exposures and deepen learning
six review sections focus on general and domain-specific use of master words

A three-step learning process provides multiple exposures to the targeted words. As students work through each lesson, they are actively engaged in learning.

STEP 1

Ten targeted words are introduced in the context of an excerpt from a fiction or nonfiction book, short story, essay, or poem. Students practice:
using prior knowledge
determining meaning from context

STEP 2

Students complete several exercises that teach strategies and reinforce word meanings. Activities include:
finding correct dictionary definitions
inferring meaning
recognizing word associations and relationships
using targeted words in new contexts
word play