All About WordsIncreasing Vocabulary In The

Common Core Classroom, PreK-2

All About Words

This book was mainly about building vocabulary.

The most impactful strategy we found was the use of text sets.

Text Set SampleTopic: Plants

Plants Text setTitles and topic words

Text Set Sample:Topic: Life Cycles

Life Cycle Text SetTitles

Story book:"Katie's Butterfly"

by Jenny Giles"Verdi"

By Janell Cannon

Informational books:"See How it Grows"

By Kimberlee Graves"Whatever will These Become?"

By Peter Garland

Vocabulary Readers:Scholastic Life Cycle

Readers set including:Butterfly life cycle

Sunflower life cycleChick life cycleFrog life cycle

Horse life cycleLadybug life cycle

Life Cycle: topic words

Text Set Sample:Mammals

Mammals Text SetTitles

Story Books:"The Busy Beavers"By Beverly Randell

"Wolf Watch"By Kay Winters

"Knut"By Dr. Gerald R. Uhlich

Informational books:"What is a Mammal?"By Lola M. Schaefer

"Elephants"By Beverly Randell"Marine Mammals"

By JR Hilt"Marvelous Mammals"

By Lydia Carlin

Mammals:Topic words

Carnivore

Claws

Diet

Herbivore

Nurse

Offspring

Omnivore

Warm-blooded

Lung

Female

Animals kingdom

Skeleton

Temperature

Birth

Breath