Our first Vocabulary Builders packet was given out this week. These packets were designed to help students develop their vocabulary decoding skills, add new words into their personal word banks, and introduce the idea of using morphology (word parts such as Greek and Latin roots).
Words students will work with in this first packet include: tyrant, blunder, brutal, waiver, feline, annual, and several more. The words are a mix of new words and words that students may already know. Since I've been teaching from these lists, I can't help but notice how often I come across many of these words in my own reading and students often point them out in their reading as well.
Throughout the school year, we will try to complete twelve of these packets (approximately 2 each block). Additionally, we will pull vocabulary words from the different stories and novels we read and do similar work.
As we work on vocabulary building this school year, my emphasize is mostly on the decoding skills (use of context clues, examples within the sentence, and morphology) more than definition memorization.
Here are some resources related to our vocabulary work:
List One Vocabulary Packet
Root Word List A (meant as review)
Root Word List B (will be emphasized in 7th grade)
Root Word List C (will be emphasized in 8th grade)
