Reading A-Z resources organized into weekly content-based units and differentiated instruction options.
Enrich students' vocabulary by providing visual tools as a valuable resource for anchoring vocabulary instruction. Give students a mental image of a word's meaning through placing a new word such as the name of an animal in the center of a concept web and identifying types or traits of the animal in the areas connected to the center of the web.
Though no particular method for teaching vocabulary has been identified as best (Beck & McKeown, 1991), a number of instructional strategies such as identifying synonyms and antonyms, providing examples and nonexamples, and relating words to one's own life, have yielded growth in students' vocabulary. Reading A-Z offers many printable or projectable graphic organizers that are appropriate tools in vocabulary instruction.
Review each student's Vocabulary Graphic Organizer carefully. Common traits will be seen when students fill out their graphic organizers, but no two graphic organizers will be exactly alike.
