Description of Materials
*Education.com worksheets for fourth-grade writing on homophones and morphemes.
*Scholastic’s Daily Word Ladder worksheets by Timothy Rasinkski (2005) for grades 4-6, designed to build reading, vocabulary, spelling, and phonics skills.
*Vocabulary Games for the Classroom by Carleton and Marzano (2010), which includes vocabulary lists and games for language arts, math, science, and social studies designed to build skills in categorizing words and understanding of the content areas.
*Scholastic’s Instant Word Lists for Teaching Reading and Writing by Thompson and Panhorst (2008), which contains over 150 word lists categorized by chapter, including words that give students difficulty such as homophones, homographs, silent e words, words from other languages, wordplay, and jargon, plus several more categories important in learning about words, word origins, and their use.
*Scholastic’s Fill-in Flip Books for Grammar, Vocabulary, and More by Michael Gravois (2009), provides 25 interactive reproducible study aids for learning new vocabulary and adjectives.
*EDL Core Vocabularies in Reading, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies (1989) includes subsections by Taylor, Frackenpohl, and White, entitled A Revised Core Vocabulary; by Nieroroda and Browning entitled Core Vocabulary for Mathematics, Grades 1-6; and by Birsner, entitled Core Vocabularies for Science and Social Studies. This collection of vocabularies includes graded and cumulative word lists, which are commonly used in basal reading series and found on frequency lists. Teachers can use these lists to perform vocabulary improvement exercises, and to ascertain levels of readability of instructional materials and teacher-made lessons. These lists also are intended for use by writers of children’s stories, instructional materials, or trade books in order to ensure readability by the target population.
*Elementary Spelling Inventory (ESI) and Upper-Level Spelling Inventory (USI), (Bear, Invernizzi, Templeton, & Johnson, 2008.
*Word Map. (2004) retrieved from http://www.readwritethink.org on January 8, 2012
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson307/wordmap.pdf
*Word Collector; Writing conference form, (Boushey & Moser, 2009).
