Description:
Based on the Gradual Release of Responsibility instructional model,
Vocabulary for Success is designed to help students learn words in stages
using print and online technology.
- Start each Lesson with a high-interest, nonfiction passage that introduces
- 10 new words in context and develops students’ content-area knowledge.
- Provide student-friendly explanations and reinforce them in print, audio, and video.
- Engage students’ social nature by encouraging discussion of the
- topic and vocabulary and empower them with independent practice.
- Assess with writing, testing students’ new knowledge of all word meanings beyond definitions.
- Offer Word-Solving Strategies with instruction and practice to unlock unfamiliar words.
- Support learning with end-of-unit enrichment and word study.