SCHOLASTIC W.O.R.D. AND VOCABULARY ACQUISITION Scholastic W.O.R.D. is grounded in research that identified the most important words for students to know and the most effective ways to teach them, while providing important background knowledge on cross-content topics and building a number of word-learning strategies and skills. A FOCUS ON THE CORE VOCABULARY Based on the groundbreaking research of Dr. Elfrieda Hiebert, W.O.R.D. teaches the core vocabulary that makes up 90% of the words in school texts. These high-utility words, grouped into 2,500 morphological word families, informed the development of the 10 themes in W.O.R.D., which cover a range of concepts in social studies, science, and language arts. Students repeat each theme in each grade with new content, allowing them to build valuable background knowledge about the world as they progress through the program. The 10 themes can be reordered and completed to match a classroom’s need:
1. Amazing Animals 2. Science and Technology 3. Blast from the Past (History) 4. It’s My Job 5. People and Places 6. On the Move (Transportation) 7. What Is a Hero? 8. Habitats Close Up 9. The Arts 10. All About Me
For each theme, the two reading passages students read—one fiction and one nonfiction— emphasize a selection of words from the core vocabulary. The words fall into three categories:
• Core Words • Explore Words • More Words
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