100% Curriculum Vocabulary Grades 6-12 Lynn Eggleston, Laura Larson

Description

Ages: 11-18
Grades: 6-12

Align vocabulary instruction with the curriculum and give at-risk students the vocabulary they need for success in the classroom. These lessons progress systematically and give plenty of practice opportunities.

The 100% Series boost language performance with:

• a broad scope of skills
• hierarchy of activities
• hefty amounts of practice

100% Curriculum Vocabulary is divided into 43 six-page lessons that are appropriate for individual instruction, small groups, or entire classrooms. Each lesson presents a group of ten words and uses this progression of activities:

• word definitions
• fill-in-the-blanks using words in the word bank
• word associations using words in the word bank
• write a sentence using each word
• crossword puzzle
• word search puzzle

The lessons are grouped by subject areas that are further divided into related topics. The subject areas and examples of the vocabulary words are:

• Art- casting, collage, contour, pigment
• Biology- aorta, heredity, herbivore, embryo
• Consumer- balance, expenditure, mortgage, residential
• Earth Science- atmosphere, deciduous, delta, epicenter, condensation
• English- apostrophe, metaphor, plagiarism, their/they're
• Government- economy, monarchy, majority, veto
• Health- introvert, dehydration, emphysema, bulimia
• History- secede, ration, colonies, loyalists
• Keyboarding- directory, header/footer, cursor
• Math- angle, denominator, integer, volume.

287 pages • 8.5 x 11 • softcover • ©2002