All About WordsIncreasing Vocabulary In The
Common Core Classroom, PreK-2
All About Words
This book was mainly about building vocabulary.
The most impactful strategy we found was the use of text sets.
Text Set SampleTopic: Plants
Plants Text setTitles and topic words
Text Set Sample:Topic: Life Cycles
Life Cycle Text SetTitles
Story book:"Katie's Butterfly"
by Jenny Giles"Verdi"
By Janell Cannon
Informational books:"See How it Grows"
By Kimberlee Graves"Whatever will These Become?"
By Peter Garland
Vocabulary Readers:Scholastic Life Cycle
Readers set including:Butterfly life cycle
Sunflower life cycleChick life cycleFrog life cycle
Horse life cycleLadybug life cycle
Life Cycle: topic words
Text Set Sample:Mammals
Mammals Text SetTitles
Story Books:"The Busy Beavers"By Beverly Randell
"Wolf Watch"By Kay Winters
"Knut"By Dr. Gerald R. Uhlich
Informational books:"What is a Mammal?"By Lola M. Schaefer
"Elephants"By Beverly Randell"Marine Mammals"
By JR Hilt"Marvelous Mammals"
By Lydia Carlin
Mammals:Topic words
Carnivore
Claws
Diet
Herbivore
Nurse
Offspring
Omnivore
Warm-blooded
Lung
Female
Animals kingdom
Skeleton
Temperature
Birth
Breath