Example of a Content Vocabulary Word Wall PDF
Word Wall Grid
Translate-Synonym-Paraphrase Grid Legal Size PDF / Legal Size Word
Word-Picture Grid PDF / Word
Geography Word Exhibits
Chicago (Expand Vocabulary)
Illinois (Expand Vocabulary)
United States (Expand Vocabulary)
World (Expand Vocabulary)
Organize Vocabulary Instruction
Planning Vocabulary Development in Context
5-Week Math Planner with Vocabulary
K-2 Phonics Requirements
Vocabulary Building Activities
Animal Phonics (Decode words using phonics and context clues)
Calendar of Topical Learning
Community Places Word Builder English / Spanish (Identify and use adjectives)
Community Words Word Builder English / Spanish (Define important words)
Content Vocabulary Bank English / Spanish (Identify words that are important to a topic)
Crossword Puzzle Maker English / Spanish (Make meaning with context clues)
Discover Spelling Rules (Identify spelling rules)
Dolch Sentence Builder (Classify and use new words)
Draw What You Learned (Take new information and connect it to what I knew)
Final Consonants: Classroom Phonics (Classify and use new words)
Flowers Poem Builder (Write a poem about a topic)
Hear the Parts (Identify syllables)
I Can Infer the Meaning of a Multi-Meaning Word in Context
Idea and Vocabulary Connections English / Spanish (Use words to explain an idea)
Important Words English / Spanish (Identify words related to a topic)
Important Words Learning Log (Identify important terms and ideas)
Make Up Vocabulary Multiple Choice Questions (Make up vocabulary questions)
Picture Meaning English / Spanish (Illustrate a text)
Picture Topical Vocabulary (Identify and explain words important to a topic)
Prefixes and Suffixes Change Meaning (Analyze how prefixes and suffixes change meaning)
Primary Vocabulary Assessment (Analyze words and clarify their meaning with context clues)
Science Word Bank (Classify parts of speech in science)
Season Phonics Word Bank (Use context clues and prior knowledge to understand new words)
See Spelling Rules (Use word analysis skills to make meaning)
Sounds the Same, Spelled Differently (Classify words based on sounds)
Spell Well to Know More (Make an exhibit to explain a topic)
Spelling Pattern Word Chart (Identify spelling patterns)
Surprising Spelling (Identify spelling "exceptions")
Synonyms and Antonyms (Identify synonyms and antonyms)
Word Analyzer (Identify and use prefixes and suffixes)
Word Bank English / Spanish (Explain and use vocabulary about a topic)
Word Bank My Community (Explain and use vocabulary about a topic)
Write Clearly (Use words appropriately to communicate about a topic)
Writing Connections (Use new vocabulary in sentences)
You're the Leader English / Spanish (Use word origins and derivations to understand content area words)
Online Vocabulary Development Activity
Content Area Vocabulary and Activities
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
Guide and Assess Learning with Graphic Organizers
Preview Reading (Set a purpose and preview a passage)
Make It Yours: Paraphrase English / Spanish (Paraphrase what I read)
Locate and Paraphrase Important Information English / Spanish (Paraphrase)
I Can Locate Important Information
Share Knowledge Fact Bank English / Spanish (Locate and evaluate information)
List to Learn English / Spanish (Locate and evaluate information)
Goal 5 - Information Collector (Locate, collect, organize, synthesize information from different sources)
I Can Locate and Classify Information
I Can Locate and Classify Information about a Topic
Collect and Combine Information about a Topic (Take new information and connect it to what I knew)
Chart Maker English / Spanish (Summarize information in charts and other graphics)
k plus English / Spanish (Evaluate information)
Get it Clear English / Spanish (Locate and collect information to respond to a question)
Classify to Clarify English / Spanish (Classify information)
Read to Learn (Organize information I find about a topic)
I Can Classify and Infer when I Read About Real Things
I Can Infer the Meaning of a Word in Context
I Can Identify and Infer Character Traits
Show That You Can Identify and Infer Character Traits
Compare and Contrast (Venn Diagram) English / Spanish (Compare and contrast)
I Can Classify Facts and Opinions
I Can Identify, Analyze, and Infer Motive
I Can Identify/Infer Trait, Motive and Draw Conclusions
Diagram Maker English / Spanish (Identify relationships)
I Can Identify and Infer Relationships
I Can Analyze a Problem and Solution
Expand Thinking with Drama English / Spanish (Dramatize a situation)
Collect Evidence to Support an Idea English / Spanish (Locate, collect, and organize information to support an idea)
I Can Classify and Summarize Information
How to Summarize English / Spanish (Summarize a nonfiction text)
This Week's Science (Identify words and information important to a topic and use them to write about it)
Words Make Meaning English / Spanish (Identify important words when I read)
Show That You Can Infer the Main Idea
What's Important? English / Spanish (Identify the main idea and supporting information)
Get It Together: Show What's Important - Main Idea English / Spanish (Identify and support a main idea)
Story/History Reader English / Spanish (Identify important elements in a story or history)
Timeline Maker English / Spanish (Sequence and evaluate events)
Timeline: What Happened? English / Spanish (Sequence and evaluate events)
Extended Response Organizer: The Reading/Writing Connection English / Spanish
Extended Response Activity (Identify the main idea)
Read-Think-Write English / Spanish (Restate a situation presented in text or illustration)
Inference Organizer English / Spanish (Make and support inferences)
Paragraph Reader (Identify important parts of a paragraph and use them to identify the main idea)
I Can Analyze Author's Techniques
I Can Identify, Analyze, and Infer Author's Purpose
My Important Learning English / Spanish (Identify important content)
Make Your Own Multiple Choice Question English / Spanish (I can ask and answer questions about a topic)
Learning Logs
Learning Report Options
Textbook Organizer
What's New, What I Knew
Content Area Reading
Question Cards for Learning Centers
I can analyze an author's purpose
I can analyze an author's techniques
I can analyze and infer causes and effects
I can classify facts and opinions
I can compare and contrast
I can identify and classify sequence
I can identify and infer relationships
I can identify and infer traits
I can identify and support the main idea in nonfiction
I can identify plot, setting, characters
I can identify, analyze, and evaluate problems and solutions
I can infer the meaning of a word from context
I can infer motive
I can infer predictions
I can infer the main idea in a story
I can locate and classify facts (nonfiction)
I can locate and classify information about a story
I can summarize a story or event
I can summarize a story
I can summarize history
I can summarize science
See the Guides for Strategic Reading/Learning
Graphic Organizer Assessment Rubric
Cause and Effect Diagram English / Spanish (Summarize information in charts and other graphics)
Show and Tell Organizers
Chart (Classify information)
Main Idea Diagram (Identify and support a main idea)
Relationships Diagram (Show relationships)
Sequence Diagram (Sequence events)
Venn Diagram (Compare and contrast)
Web Diagram (Organize information)
Math Graphic Organizers
Social Studies Graphic Organizers
Content Connections/Plan to Develop Fluent Thinkers Each Week
Listen With Focus
Punctuation Signals English / Spanish (Read with expression)
Read to Educate (Identify and analyze factors that affect fluency)
Write to Read (Identify and analyze factors that impact a message I hear)
Text to Text (Present information on a single topic)
Their Words English / Spanish (Infer)
Organize Clear Writing
Criteria for Clear Communication (Use stages of the writing process to develop my writing)
Expository Communicator English / Spanish (Prepare a presentation)
Expository Writing Guide: List and Organize (Use prewriting strategies to generate ideas and organize my writing)
Focus, Support, Organize Writing English / Spanish (Write with clarity)
Meaningful Words English / Spanish (Identify words important to a topic and use them to write about it)
Narrative Writer English / Spanish (Write a narrative)
Paragraph Writer English / Spanish (Collect information and write to communicate an idea)
Persuasive Writer English / Spanish (Write a persuasive text)
My Own Grammar Guide English / Spanish (Explain and give examples of grammar rules)
Thematic History Writer
Write Clearly (Use words appropriately to communicate about a topic)
Functional Writing
Reading Writing Chicago
Sentence Builder English / Spanish (Write complete sentences to tell about a topic)
Sentence Expander English / Spanish (Use nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs to build and expand sentences)
Students Need a Reason to Write
Knowledge Connector (Combine information and write to explain)
ISAT Writing Guides
Expository Communicator English / Spanish (Prepare a presentation)
Expository Writing Guide: List and Organize
Narrative Writer English / Spanish (Write a narrative)
Persuasive Writer English / Spanish (Write a persuasive text)
Criteria for Clear Communication (Use stages of the writing process to develop my writing)
Use Standards to Help Writers
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 (Solve math problems)
Guide to Writing with Integrated Math
Write Math Context Problems (Write a story with numerical information; construct a problem based on that information)
Report Learning
Learning Log: Weekly Log English / Spanish
Learning Report Options
Summary and Synthesis
Knowledge Connector (Combine information and write to explain)
How to Summarize English / Spanish (Summarize information)
Get It Together/Show What's Important (Identify and support a main idea)
Get It Together Write English / Spanish (Write to explain a topic to an audience)
Book Maker English / Spanish (Organize and communicate information about a topic)
Text to Text
ILLUSTRATE TO ASSESS/EXPAND LEARNING
Active Art Assessments
Analyze an Artist's Technique English / Spanish (Interpret artist's use of technique)
Analyze and INFER (Interpret a variety of works)
Connect Portraits to People and Places and Time (Synthesize information and ideas from different sources)
CONNECTIONS Art-Text-Ideas (Synthesize information and ideas from different sources)
Get It Together: Show What's Important (Identify and support a main idea)
Idea Interpreter (Interpret a situation presented in a text or painting)
Infer from Images (Infer from images)
Inference Organizer, from Texts and Paintings (Make and support references)
Interpret a Painting in Words English / Spanish (Identify and explain words that are important to interpreting a painting)
Interpret a Painting (Identify and explain words that are important to interpreting a painting)
Interpret a Portrait in Words (Identify and explain words that are important to interpreting a portrait)
Make Interesting Idea-Example Connections (Locate and collect examples related to an idea)
Model How to Map a Story or a History English / Spanish (Identify parts of a situation and make predictions based on those parts)
My Pictures Show My Community (Communicate information in a variety of ways)
Paraphrase a Painting (Explain/write to communicate ideas)
Picture Meaning English / Spanish (Illustrate a text)
Picture a Situation English / Spanish (Identify relationships)
Picture the Main Idea English / Spanish (Identify and support a main idea)
Picture Word Bank English / Spanish (Identify words that are important to a topic)
Portrait Reader (Make inferences from information)
Portray History Using Portraits (Interpret a situation)
Question Builders to Use with Paintings and Stories
Show and Tell Community History (Organize information to explain a topic)
Show to Tell English / Spanish (Identify and communicate important information)
Show Inferential Thinking (Infer meaning based on a text or painting)
Show What Happened English / Spanish (Identify parts of a situation and make predictions based on those parts)
Summarize an Exhibit (Explain/write to communicate ideas)
Take Show and Tell into Representing Reading English / Spanish (Picture meaning)
Their Words-Interpret a Painting (Infer)
Their Words-Interpret Exhibits or Texts (Infer)
Use Pictures As Pre-Writers English / Spanish (Picture meaning)
US History Painting Reader (Synthesize information and ideas from different sources)
What's the Main Idea for Painting (Identify and explain parts that are important to interpreting a situation)
Visualize to Realize (Identify and explain parts that are important in interpreting a situation)
Get It Clear: Analytic Questions
Think More: Inferential Questions
Think It Through: Evaluative Questions
Songs and Spirituals with Guided Interpretation
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'roun
Free at Last
Got My Letter
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
His Eye is on the Sparrow
How I Got Over
I'm a-going to Join the Band
I've Got Peace Like a River
In the Upper Room
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Just a Little While to Stay Here
Lift Every Voice and Sing
No More Auction Block for Me
Shout for Joy
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Stand By Me
The Gospel Train
This Little Light of Mine
Trouble of the World
We Shall Overcome
We'll Understand it By and By
Penguin Tanka
The Seahorse
Ode to the Prairie Dog
Light: An Autobiography
A Sound Vocabulary Lesson
Technology Haiku
A City of Many Shoulders
Poetry Planners
Poetry Week Planner Elementary
Poetry Week Planner High School
Exemplary Poetry Unit Plan
Writing Poems and Songs
Community Song or Poem (Write a poem/song)
Dolch 220 Words for Poem Builder
My Chicago Poem English / Spanish (Write a poem to communicate an idea)
Poem Builder English / Spanish (Communicate about a topic in a poem)
Poem Builder Based on a Painting (Interpret a text painting; communicate about a topic in a poem)
Poetry Rubric
Topical Song Writer English / Spanish (Write to communicate)
Reading Poems and Songs
Poem Reader English / Spanish (Interpret a writer's use of words)
Song Reader: This Little Light of Mine (Interpret a song)
Paraphrase a Song English / Spanish (Explain/add to a song)
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
Illustrate a Proverb or Saying (Interpret figurative language)
Proverbs to Inspire Learning and Leadership English/Spanish
Calendar of Hope
Four Quarter Content Planner
Learning Yearbook--Exhibit Learning in June
Look Forward, Move Ahead--Exhibit Learning, Clarify Progress, Organize the Future
Fourth Quarter Planner--rganize Next Grade Prep
NLC High School Prep: Priorities for K-8 Core Learning
Next Grade Prep: Priorities for Progress, Pre-K to High School