Sampling of selections:

Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Avi)

Hatchet (Paulsen)

Abel's Island (Steig)

Maniac Magee (Spinelli)

A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle)

Ella Enchanted (Carson Levine)

The Family Under the Bridge (Savage)

Call It Courage (Sperry)

Ben and Me (Lawson)

The Great Gilly Hopkins (Paterson)

and many more…

Vocabu-Lit Student Book D

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