Word of the Week Middle School Tier 2 Academic Vocabulary Practice Activities
- Zip
- Google Apps™
What educators are saying
Description
Limited vocabulary, especially academic vocabulary, can be a huge barrier to student success in seventh and eighth grades. In just 10 minutes per day, you can effectively build your middle schoolers' academic language skills with activities that focus on building a strong foundation word knowledge.
These simple, targeted vocabulary activities focus on Tier 2 vocabulary to help transition students from basic word recognition to application.
QUICK, EFFECTIVE DAILY PRACTICE DESIGNED WITH MASTERY IN MIND
When used as a daily warm-up, it gives your students a chance to discuss and utilize academic language through the research-based format identified by Marzano and colleagues.
Easy-to-follow Daily Routine:
- Monday: Introduction & part of speech
- Tuesday: Define the word & create a non-linguistic representation (visualize)
- Wednesday: Identify synonyms & antonyms
- Thursday: Apply your knowledge through writing
- Friday: Assess understanding & apply in context
DIG DEEP INTO COMMONLY USED (AND ASSESSED) ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
This bundle includes 36 purposefully selected vocabulary words commonly seen on 7th and 8th-grade assessments and academic tasks, and daily practice scaffolds from identification to application and analysis as students build a deeper understanding.
Perfect for classroom use, intervention groups, or tutoring.
In this download, you'll receive:
❏ Instructional guide with implementation suggestions and wordlist
❏ Word cards for word walls or personal dictionaries
❏ 36 weeks of daily vocabulary warm-ups
❏ 4 Quarterly review quizzes to monitor retention
❏ Answer keys for review quizzes
❏ Digital student workbook formatted for Google Classroom
NOTE: This is a zipped file. You will need to extract the PDFs before use. The digital workbook is linked within the files. This is in Google Slides.
This product is also available for the following grade levels:
✔ 2nd Grade Daily Academic Vocabulary
✔ 3rd Grade Daily Academic Vocabulary
✔ 4th Grade Daily Academic Vocabulary
✔ 5th Grade Daily Academic Vocabulary
✔ 6th Grade Daily Academic Vocabulary
Want to learn more? Check out this blog post about Daily Academic Vocabulary.
*****************************************************************************
Terms of Use:
© Rebecca Davies. All rights reserved by author. These materials are intended for personal use by a single classroom only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. For use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. See product file for clip art and font credits.
Questions?
Click here to contact me directly via email.
