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Building Vocabulary

Grades K–8

Build academic vocabulary across the content areas in as little as 20 minutes a day with this systematic approach to teaching vocabulary. This flexible series focuses on vocabulary acquisition using Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and bases which account for 90% of English words with two or more syllables.

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Series Highlights

  • Minimize prep time with short, daily lessons and flexible pacing plans

  • Digital games provide fun, interactive, and meaningful practice and application

  • Reinforce and extend knowledge with practice activities that offer students opportunities to deeply understand words and their meanings

  • Gauge students' knowledge and retention with weekly assessments and pre- and post-tests

  • Support teacher capacity with targeted instruction on common spelling errors and issues

  • Cognate Connections supports Spanish speakers by making Spanish-English connections
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Explore the Series

  • Student Materials

    Student Guided Practice Book

    Empower students to unlock the magic and meaning of academic vocabulary with daily lessons and activities that make word play exciting, through the full-color Student Guided Practice Book, available in print and digital formats.
    • Workbooks and practice pages designed to build independence through word building games.
    • Dedicated, direct instruction lessons for students to build word confidence. Meets the developmental needs of most children as lessons are presented in a variety of ways to meet objectives.
    • Focused lists to reinforce Greek and Latin roots which builds students' spelling competence.
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    Student Engagement

    Daily reinforcement to support mastery and application in cross-curricular connections.
    • Strong vocabulary skills increase reading comprehension, word attack skills, and communication skills.
    • Multi-sensory approach to engage and captivate each student. Builds students' spelling mastery as they apply knowledge of roots and common patterns.
    • Workbook pages can be completed independently, partnered or whole group to encourage higher achievement which leads to higher self-esteem.
    • Enables students to unlock the meaning of cross-curricular vocabulary words.
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  • Teacher Materials

    Teacher's Guide

    Building Vocabulary, 2nd Edition Teacher’s Guide includes instruction for teaching the lessons that go along with the Student Guided Practice Book.
    • Short, scripted lessons that require minimal teacher prep but maximum benefit to student.
    • Differentiation strategies for scaffolding to meet all students' needs.
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    Assessments

    The Assessment section of the Teacher's Guide contains diagnostic pre- and post-tests, and unit quizzes that gauge student performance and drive instructional decisions.
    • Contains pre- and post-tests and lesson quizzes to assess prior knowledge, plan for instruction, and measure growth.
    • Aligns with WIDA, McREL, TESOL, and CCSS standards.
    • Easy to use program that offers a systematic and balanced literacy approach to teaching vocabulary.
    • Includes lesson suggestions for multi-sensory options and pacing guides and curricular connections for quick plug in to teacher's capacity.
    assessments-bv

    Program Guide

    Dive into the research that drives the use of roots and linguistic patterns to teach English vocabulary and see how students grow across the levels of instruction. Quick overview explaining how to use the Digital Games. Provides pacing options and tips for implementation.
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  • Digital Resources

    Digital Games

    Ready-to-use digital games and presentations that offer multi-media approaches to keep students interested.
    • Perfect program to use for in-person or distance learning options.
    • Strengthens student engagement in the learning process.
    • Offers a library of reproducible practice pages to reinforce concepts and extend learning.
    digital-games-bv

    Digital Resources and Slides

    • NEW! Student Reproducibles are now fillable PDF forms, allowing students to type in answers and annotate each page.
    • Assessments, reproducibles, bonus student pages and a comprehensive Word Families and Word Roots list.
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  • Unboxing Video

    Unboxing Video

     

Student Guided Practice Book

Empower students to unlock the magic and meaning of academic vocabulary with daily lessons and activities that make word play exciting, through the full-color Student Guided Practice Book, available in print and digital formats.
  • Workbooks and practice pages designed to build independence through word building games.
  • Dedicated, direct instruction lessons for students to build word confidence. Meets the developmental needs of most children as lessons are presented in a variety of ways to meet objectives.
  • Focused lists to reinforce Greek and Latin roots which builds students' spelling competence.
student-guided-practice-book-bv

Student Engagement

Daily reinforcement to support mastery and application in cross-curricular connections.
  • Strong vocabulary skills increase reading comprehension, word attack skills, and communication skills.
  • Multi-sensory approach to engage and captivate each student. Builds students' spelling mastery as they apply knowledge of roots and common patterns.
  • Workbook pages can be completed independently, partnered or whole group to encourage higher achievement which leads to higher self-esteem.
  • Enables students to unlock the meaning of cross-curricular vocabulary words.
student-engagement-bv

Teacher's Guide

Building Vocabulary, 2nd Edition Teacher’s Guide includes instruction for teaching the lessons that go along with the Student Guided Practice Book.
  • Short, scripted lessons that require minimal teacher prep but maximum benefit to student.
  • Differentiation strategies for scaffolding to meet all students' needs.
teachers-guide_bv

Assessments

The Assessment section of the Teacher's Guide contains diagnostic pre- and post-tests, and unit quizzes that gauge student performance and drive instructional decisions.
  • Contains pre- and post-tests and lesson quizzes to assess prior knowledge, plan for instruction, and measure growth.
  • Aligns with WIDA, McREL, TESOL, and CCSS standards.
  • Easy to use program that offers a systematic and balanced literacy approach to teaching vocabulary.
  • Includes lesson suggestions for multi-sensory options and pacing guides and curricular connections for quick plug in to teacher's capacity.
assessments-bv

Program Guide

Dive into the research that drives the use of roots and linguistic patterns to teach English vocabulary and see how students grow across the levels of instruction. Quick overview explaining how to use the Digital Games. Provides pacing options and tips for implementation.
program-guide-bv

Digital Games

Ready-to-use digital games and presentations that offer multi-media approaches to keep students interested.
  • Perfect program to use for in-person or distance learning options.
  • Strengthens student engagement in the learning process.
  • Offers a library of reproducible practice pages to reinforce concepts and extend learning.
digital-games-bv

Digital Resources and Slides

  • NEW! Student Reproducibles are now fillable PDF forms, allowing students to type in answers and annotate each page.
  • Assessments, reproducibles, bonus student pages and a comprehensive Word Families and Word Roots list.
digital-resources-and-slides-bv

Unboxing Video

 

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    Root Lists for Building Vocabulary, Levels 1-11

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Testimonials

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I have been so encouraged by this resource and the intentionality behind the program. Previously, I was putting together my own morphology units of study and was truly overwhelmed never knowing exactly which roots to choose. We love the systematic approach, and I feel much more confident in my delivery now.

Ellie Lee

ELA Educator, Nashville, TN
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE the TCM Building Vocabulary curriculum. I have been looking for a systematic instructional system for years to teach vocabulary and this was great! The students learned a lot and most of the information was retained and transferred.

Summer School Instructor, School District of Palm Beach County
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I love how Building Vocabulary gives engaging practice using affixes and Greek and Latin roots. Morphological analysis is the only vocabulary strategy that the students can transfer independently yet it is difficult to find materials that are colorful, engaging, and rich instructionally. We are using Building Vocabulary for small groups to sharpen students' ability to use morphological analysis to construct meaning of unknown words, which we know will build their reading comprehension. This is especially great for grades 3-5! Thank you for the creative, variety of activities to engage all students! Love it!

Virginia Taylor

Reading Coach, Hillsborough County, FL