Give your students the important vocabulary they need to perform well in the classroom and on assessments!
Explain, create, solve, imagine, improve—these are powerful words. Your students encounter these words in textbooks, in worksheets, in assessments, and in real-world situations. But do they really understand them?
Daily Academic Vocabulary is the first product to provide students in grades 2–6+ with targeted daily instruction and practice using academic vocabulary words. Each book in Daily Academic Vocabulary provides 36 weeks of instruction and practice on the critical words that students encounter frequently in their coursework and on assessments.
You'll love Daily Academic Vocabulary because it:
- comes with 32 ready-to-use transparencies. Introducing new words and guiding group lessons is easy with 32 transparencies that present each week's words, definitions, and sample sentences.
- is based on current research and best practices. It's research-proven that a solid knowledge of academic vocabulary words enhances students' success in all subject areas. Read the white paper.
- is easy to integrate into any classroom. Each lesson can be taught in 10–15 minutes, which fits easily into teachers' lesson plans.
- serves as a valuable test-prep tool. As students become more familiar with and comfortable using these important words, they'll have the knowledge they need to perform successfully on state assessments.
- provides students with an "academic toolkit." By mastering these critical words, students are better able to understand the academic language they encounter in diverse materials across all subject areas and grade levels.
- is correlated to state standards.
What is academic vocabulary?
Academic vocabulary is the language of learning. The high-use, widely applicable words presented in Daily Academic Vocabulary, such as compare, occurrence, structure, sequential, symbolize, and inference, are words your students will encounter time and time again throughout their coursework and assessments.
Daily Academic Vocabulary helps students develop a solid knowledge and understanding of the language used in assessment. However, Daily Academic Vocabulary isn't just for test-prep. It makes mastering larger concepts in all academic contexts and content areas easier, as well.
Each book, grades 2–6+, in the series contains:
- Transparencies that display each week's words, definitions, and sample sentences.
- Weekly teacher lesson plan pages that include the definitions and sample sentences for each week's words, ideas for how to introduce the words, and scripting suggestions that build on students' previous knowledge and personal connections to the words.
- Reproducible student practice pages:
- Days 1–4 of each week present three or four questions that focus on using the words in a scholastic or personal context.
- Day 5 is a review that features four multiple-choice questions as well as an opened-ended writing activity that requires students to apply the words to their own experiences.
- Reproducible review weeks that give students additional practice on the words introduced in the prior eight weeks. Practice formats are fun and engaging for students and include cloze paragraphs, crosswords, and crack-the-code puzzles.
View the weekly walk through.
In the classroom, on the test, or in the real world—open the doors to success for your students. Use Daily Academic Vocabulary in your class today!