WORD KNOWLEDGE

Performance Descriptors for Vocabulary Activities

WORD WALL GRIDS
 Translate-Synonym-Paraphrase Grid (LEGAL SIZE  WORD)
 Translate-Synonym-Paraphrase Grid (LEGAL SIZE  PDF)
 Word-Picture Grid (PDF)
 Word-Picture Grid (WORD)

GEOGRAPHY WORD EXHIBITS
Chicago
Illinois
United States
World


ORGANIZE VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION
Planning Vocabulary Development in Context
5-Week Math Planner with Vocabulary
K-2 Phonics Requirements

VOCABULARY BUILDING ACTIVITIES
Vocabulary Connections
Animal Phonics
Calendar of Topical Learning
Crossword Puzzle Maker
Crossword Puzzle Maker (Spanish)
Dolch Sentence Builder
Final Consonants: Classroom Phonics
Idea and Vocabulary Connections
Idea and Vocabulary Connections (Spanish)
Important Words
Important Words (Spanish)
Math Vocabulary Projects
Poem Builder: Articles, Pronouns, Prepositions
Poem Builder: Flower Adverbs
Primary Vocabulary Assessment
Science Word Bank
Science Word Bank (Spanish)
Season Phonics Word Bank
See Spelling Rules
Spell Well to Know More
Topical Alphabet
Topical Alphabet Chart
Visualize Vocabulary
Visualize Vocabulary (Spanish)
Vocabulary Assessment
Vocabulary Builder
Vocabulary Builder: Questions
Vocabulary Builder: Questions (Spanish)
Vocabulary Builder: Thinking Words
Vocabulary Builder: Thinking Words (Spanish)
Vocabulary Calendar
Vocabulary Calendar: This Week
Vocabulary Partner Projects
Word Bank
Word Builder
Word Detective: Figuring Out Meaning
Word Reader
Word Reader (Spanish)
You're the __________.
You're the __________. (Spanish)
You're the Astronomer
You're the Astronomer (Spanish)
You're the Leader
You're the Leader (Spanish)

MATH AND CONTENT VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT

CONTENT AREA VOCABULARY AND ACTIVITIES

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STRATEGIC READING
Instructional Planners
Strategic Readers
How to Make a Thinking Chart
Afternoon Reading Connections
Plan a Week of Reading/Writing Content
Plan to Make the Reading/Writing/Vocabulary Connection

Activities
Inference Organizer
Get It Clear - Think More
Organize Understanding
Preview Reading
Reading/Thinking Report
Text Connections
I Can Explain an Inference
I Can Locate Important Information
Independent Thinking Activities
Story/History Reader
How to Summarize
Class Log Question Maker
Extended Response Activity

Collect and Organize Important Information
Toolkit to Teach/Assess Content Reading/Writing
Knowledge Collector
Prairie Units
I Can Locate Important Information
I Can Classify and Infer when I Read About Real Things
I Can Classify and Summarize Information
I Can Classify Information
Fact Collector
Goal 5 - Information Collector
Get Information and Think More
 Get the Situation
 Make It Yours: Paraphrase
 Paragraph/Page Reader with Questions
Read to Learn
Get It Together/Show What's Important

Learning Logs
Learning Log: Class Log
Learning Log: Weekly Log
Learning Report Options
Textbook Organizer
What's New, What I Knew

CONTENT AREA READING
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GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

Assess Reading with Graphics
Cause and Effect Diagram
Chart Maker
Compare and Contrast Organizer
Diagram Maker
Graph Maker
Inference Organizer 
List Maker
Story/History Reader
Time-Line Organizer
Web Organizer 

MATH GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

SOCIAL STUDIES GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

SCIENCE GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

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FLUENCY
Content Connections/Plan to Develop Fluent Thinkers Each Week
Listen With Focus
Punctuation Signals (Read With Expression)
Read to Educate
Write to Read
Text to Text
Their Words
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WRITING

Performance Descriptors for Writing Activities

ORGANIZING CLEAR WRITING
Criteria for Clear Communication
Communicate What's Important
Expository Writing Guide: Web and Rays
Expository Writing Guide: List and Organize
Narrative Scaffold
Persuasive Scaffold
My Own Grammar Guide
Use Standards to Help Writers

FUNCTIONAL WRITING
Exemplify Learning
My Family History
Reading Writing Chicago
Sentence Builder
Students Need a Reason to Write
TV Guide: Build Language Skills (English version)
TV Guide: Build Language Skills (Spanish Version)
Write One Topic Three Ways
What's New, What I Knew
Dolch Sentence Builder

ISAT Writing Guides
Expository Writing Guide: Web and Rays
Expository Writing Guide: List and Organize
Narrative Scaffold
Persuasive Scaffold
Criteria for Clear Communication
Use Standards to Help Writers
More Writing Guides
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WRITING IN THE CONTENT AREAS
These guides are designed to be adapted and applied across grades 3-12 and all content areas.

Instructional Planners
Plan a Week of Reading/Writing Content
Plan to Make the Reading/Writing/Vocabulary Connection

Write Math
Math Path Problem Solver
Guide to Writing with Integrated Math
Write Math Context Problems

Report Learning
Learning Log: Class Log
Learning Log: Weekly Log
Learning Report Options
Class Log Question Maker
Reading/Thinking Report

Summary and Synthesis
What's New, What I Knew
How to Summarize
Get It Together/Show What's Important
Get It Together: Writing Organizer
How to Write and Illustrate a Children's Book
Text to Text
Write What's Important
Topic Writer (Spanish)
Textbook Organizer
Write This Week's Topic
Write One Topic Three Ways
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ILLUSTRATE TO ASSESS/EXPAND LEARNING
Active Art Assessments
Art-Text-Idea Connections
Draw What You Hear (2003)
Drawing Science
Get It Together: Show What's Important
Illustrate a Story or History
Infer from Images
Interpret a Painting in Words
My Pictures Show What I Know
Phonics Picture Bank
Picture Meaning
Picture a Paragraph
Picture a Situation
Picture Characters
Picture Culture
Picture Light
Picture Sound
Picture Word Bank
Visualize to Realize
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LEVELS OF QUESTIONS

 
Four Levels of Questions
Get It: Literal Questions
Get It Clear: Analytic Questions
Think More: Inferential Questions
Think It Through: Evaluative Questions
Spanish Edition Levels of Questions
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POEMS AND PROVERBS

POETRY PLANNERS
Poetry Week Planner Elementary
Poetry Week Planner High School
Exemplary Poetry Unit Plan

Poetry in the Content Areas

WRITING POEMS
Dolch 220 Words for Poem Builder
Make a Poet's Grammar Guide
Make a Poet's Punctuation Guide
Poem Builder
Poem Builder - with Flower Words
Poetry Rubric
Song Writer

READING POEMS
Poem Reader
Music Reader
Song Reader
Assess the Main Idea of a Poem
He Had His Dream/El Tenía Su Sueño
Hope is the Thing with Feathers/Esperanza es la Cosa con Plumas
Sound of Rain/El Sonida de la Lluvia
The Spring is a Cat/La Primavera es un Gato
This Little Light of Mine/Este Pequeño Lucero Mío

Proverbs and Sayings
Proverbs and Sayings that Inspire
Illustrate a Proverb or Saying
Proverbs to Inspire Learning and Leadership English/Spanish
Calendar of Hope

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NEXT GRADE PREP
Four Quarter Content Planner
Learning Yearbook--Exhibit Learning in June
Look Forward, Move Ahead--Exhibit Learning, Clarify Progress, Organize the Future
Fourth Quarter Planner--Organize Next Grade Prep
NLC High School Prep: Priorities for K-8 Core Learning
Next Grade Prep: Priorities for Progress, Pre-K to High School

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