Academic Vocabulary Development
Curriculum and Instruction
Featuring
Close Reading and Essay Writing Vocabulary
for Grades 6-12
with Technology Integration when Available

This curriculum is designed to incorporate vocabulary development into your instruction easily and for use with many different standards, goals and objectives in your school district. There are several different lessons that vary from independent and small group work to full class discussion. While this curriculum features close reading and essay writing academic vocabulary words, you can easily use the vocabulary lessons incorporated into this curriculum on any group of words you are trying to teach to adolescents and teens.

*List of Academic Words Students need to close read and write expository text
*5 Complete lessons using the academic vocabulary words listed
*2 practice sheets with answers
*Hyperlink to video to use for teaching

If you’re looking for a great way to integrate vocabulary into teaching expository text, this is it.  Students will better understand reading and writing text, and locating textual evidence to  make their learning real to them.