Sampling of selections:

Frog and Toad Together (Lobel)

Just Fishing with Grandpa (Mayer & Mayer)

Manners Can Be Fun (Leaf)

Poppleton Everyday (Rylant)

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse (Lionni)

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Scieszka)

Superfudge (Blume)

and many more…

Vocabu-Lit Student Book B

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

STEP 3