Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: High-priority words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-minute. daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten through Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8). Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content, as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas.
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the following list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Teachers should make this list available to students through the Assessed Vocabulary Study Guide. (Words appear on two Assessed Vocabulary Study Guides for those grades that provide a mid- and end-of-module Vocabulary Assessment.)
You will note that indirect assessments are not specified in Module 1 of Kindergarten; rather, there are reminders about referencing the Word Wall and bringing previously studied vocabulary into the lessons when appropriate. This is an instructional decision to reduce the cognitive load required of beginning kindergartners, allowing them to focus on acclimating to classroom procedures and expectations. Indirect assessments will begin in Module 2.
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
Grade K Module 2: Once Upon a Farm
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
In order to achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: High-priority words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Grades K–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
The Year at Maple Hill Farm, Alice and Martin Provensen
Three Little Pigs, adaptation, Raina Moore; illustrations, Thea Kliros
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
Farm Animals, Wade Cooper
ewe (9)
ram (9)
shear (9)
herd (10)
snout (12)
perch (15)
plows (18)
waterproof (21)
woolly (22)
pounce (25)
boss (26)
The Year at Maple Hill Farm, Alice and Martin Provensen
covered (2)
marshy (5)
eaves (9)
overflowing (12)
pasture (13)
drowsy (19)
splendid (24)
harvest (24)
frost (24)
insects (24)
restless (25)
flock (25)
rattle (27)
settles (27)
Three Little Pigs, adaptation, Raina Moore; illustrations, Thea Kliros
cozy (2)
straw (4)
advice (6)
trembling (12)
snarled (16)
chimney (16)
crackling (17)
scorched (18)
The Little Red Hen, Jerry Pinkney
cheery (2)
scooped (4)
wheat (6)
fond (8)
seedlings (11)
ripe (11)
harvesting (11)
stalks (16)
grain (16, 17)
mill (17, 19)
steady (18)
fetched (19)
shawl (19)
trudged (19)
flour (19)
trek (19)
effort (21)
delighted (21)
aroma (23)
clucked (29)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Paul Galdone
rushing (9, 28)
troll (9)
gobble (11, 16)
ramping (21)
hooves (25, 26)
butted (26)
trampled (26)
Grade K Module 3: America, Then and Now
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: High-priority words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-minute daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the following list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (The list of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
When I Was Young in the Mountains, Cynthia Rylant
Now
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/wordsmyth) to generate glossaries for students.
When I Was Young in the Mountains, Cynthia Rylant
pinto beans (3)
okra (3)
pasture (7, 16)
shivering (13)
congregation (16)
baptisms (16)
dusk (20)
threaten (20)
draped (21)
School Then and Now, Robin Nelson
miles (4)
slates (12)
chalk (14)
science (17)
social studies (17)
Home Then and Now, Robin Nelson
oil (4)
stoves (8, 9)
chores (16)
The Little House, Virginia Lee Burton
distance (4)
curious (4, 40)
wondered (4)
brook (6)
frost (10)
surveyors (14)
surveyed (14)
automobiles (16)
divided (18)
tenement (18, 28)
subway (26)
stories (28)
crookedly (31)
shabby (31, 32)
jacked (34)
cellar (37)
foundation (38)
Transportation Then and Now, Robin Nelson
country (4)
tracks (10)
dreamed (16)
Communication Then and Now, Robin Nelson
copied (6)
printing press (7)
messages (8)
newspapers (12, 13)
pony express (16)
Internet (17)
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin, Gene Barretta
originated (2)
future (3)
cartoon (6)
bifocals (7, 8)
lens (7)
electricity (9, 10)
lightning (9, 10, 11, 12)
discovered (10)
prevents (12)
gadget (13)
device (14)
flippers (15)
advantage (15)
benefits (15)
measured (16, 26)
charted (16)
publicized (16)
promoter (16)
armonica (18)
composed (18)
efficient (19)
primitive (20)
combination (22)
distance (25)
postal routes (26)
library (27)
hospital (27)
post office (27)
fire department (27)
sanitation (27)
establishments (28)
organize (28)
accomplishments (29)
documents (29)
pivotal (30)
remarkable (30)
contributions (31)
GREAT MINDS® WIT & WISDOM
Grade K Module 4: The Continents
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content-Specific Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic).
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at-hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (K–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the following list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the End-of-Module Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
MODULE WORD LIST
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
World Atlas, Nick Crane; Illustrations, David Dean
The Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf; Illustrations, Robert Lawson
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale, Verna Aardema; illustrations, Leo and Diane Dillon
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex texts.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
Asia, Rebecca Hirsch
countries (5)
cities (9)
factories (11)
villages (13)
The Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf; illustrations, Robert Lawson
butt (3, 7, 10, 14, 18, 27)
lonesome (6, 8)
roughest (13)
snorting (14, 18)
fierce (14, 19, 26, 27, 29)
pawing (18)
parade (22)
Bandarilleros (22, 29)
Picadores (23, 29)
spears (23)
Matador (24, 29)
proudest (24)
handsome (24)
Europe, Rebecca Hirsch
countries (7)
festival (9)
royal (11)
cities (15)
museums (17)
castles (19)
range (25)
visitors (27)
travel (27)
Africa, Rebecca Hirsch
countries (5)
cities (9)
crops (11)
villages (13)
popular (13)
Antarctica, Rebecca Hirsch
countries (5)
scientists (9)
visitors (11)
adventurers (13)
famous (15)
icebergs (23)
climate (25)
protect (27)
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale, Verna Aardema; illustrations, Leo and Diane Dillon
grumpily (2)
reeds (2)
duty (5)
alarm (5)
warn (6)
hunted (8)
dawn (8)
council (9)
worried (9)
gathered (9)
nervously (12)
fault (12)
reason (14)
trembling (17)
summons (19)
satisfied (23)
whining (25)
honest (25)
South America, Rebecca Hirsch
countries (5)
medicine (9)
snouts (21)
cities (27)
Australia, Rebecca Hirsch
country (5, 11)
cities (9)
monorail (9)
ranches (11)
traditions (13)
outback (19)
Moon Rope, Lois Ehlert
digging (1)
tickled (5)
loop (5)
blinked (7)
crescent (10)
twirled (10)
waited (15)
eager (17)
followed (17)
glancing (20)
creatures (23)
purpose (23)
fuss (25)
avoiding (27)
Introducing North America, Chris Oxlade
stretches (4)
equator (4)
connected (5)
narrow (5)
landmarks (6)
popular (6)
famous (7)
pyramids (7)
buildings (7)
plains (9)
prairie (9)
border (10)
freshwater (10)
extreme (13)
hurricanes (13)
variety (14)
swamps (15)
hundreds (15)
cactus (16)
vast (17)
settled (18)
industry (21, 27)
business (24)
thousands (25)
towns (25)
cattle (25)
Grade 1 Module 1: A World of Books
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic).
Academic Vocabulary: High-priority words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-minute daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Grades K—2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8). Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas.
Indirect Assessment*: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the following list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
* You will note that indirect assessments are not specified in Module 1; rather, there are reminders about referencing the Word Wall and bringing previously studied vocabulary into the lessons when appropriate. This is an instructional decision to reduce the cognitive load required of students, allowing them to focus on acclimating to classroom procedures and expectations. Indirect assessments will begin in Module 2.
Direct Assessment: Teachers should make this list available to students through the Assessed Vocabulary Study Guide. (Words appear on two Assessed Vocabulary Study Guides for those grades that provide a mid- and end-of-module Vocabulary Assessment.)
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Tomás and the Library Lady
WORDS TO KNOW
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
Tomás and the Library Lady, Pat Mora; Illustrations, Raul Colón
migrant
eager
borrow
dump
valued
Waiting for the Biblioburro, Monica Brown; Illustrations, John Parra
collects
village
market
creatures
My Librarian Is a Camel, Margriet Ruurs
remote
mobile
contact
inspire
That Book Woman, Heather Henson; Illustrations, David Small
fancy
scholar
britches
reckon
yearn
Grade 1 Module 2:
Creature Features
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
In order to achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advance students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?
Teacher-provided definition, Apply Understanding
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth http://witeng.link/wordsmyth to generate glossaries for students.
“The Ants and the Grasshopper,” Aesop’s Fables
starving
disgust
“The Hare and the Tortoise,” Aesop’s Fables
ridiculous
swiftest
Me … Jane, Patrick McDonell
chimpanzee (1)
coop (10)
straw (12)
miracle (14)
sap (18)
Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea, Chris Butterworth
snapper (10)
cruises (10)
clever (10)
camouflage (10)
current (19)
peer (20)
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
pesky (13)
capture (26)
sift (27)
relatives (29)
Never Smile at a Monkey, Steve Jenkins
predators (2)
venom (2)
threat (6)
aggressive (10)
unpredictable (16)
inflict (17)
riled (19)
GREAT MINDS® WIT & WISDOM
Grade 1 Module 3: Powerful Forces
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advance students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth http://witeng.link/glossary to generate glossaries for students.
Feel the Wind, Arthur Dorros
chinook (26)
equator (10)
forecasters (25)
sirocco (27)
windmills (22)
Feelings, Aliki
crocus (6)
spiteful (9)
petrified (10)
guilty (12)
humiliated (12)
sundial (26)
embarrassed (27)
insulted (31)
impatient (31)
Gilberto and the Wind, Marie Hall Ets
jerk (2)
apron (4)
meadow (10)
ripe (16)
sailors (19)
scatters (25)
howling (27)
Owl at Home, “The Guest,” Arnold Lobel
thumping (7)
whirled (13)
whooshed (13)
Brave Irene, William Steig
aristocrat (25)
burrows (14)
errand (6)
furrows (14)
heed (8)
knobby (6)
mansion (16)
meddling (21)
palace (2)
radiant (24)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
maize (6)
starve (7)
lantern (9)
electricity (11)
pump (11)
bearings (15)
tinkered (18)
doubters (26)
GREAT MINDS® WIT & WISDOM
Grade 1 Module 4:
Cinderella Stories
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
In order to achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content-Specific Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic).
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advance students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the End-of-Module Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text Critical
1, 1DD admire ü ü Apply Understanding, Categorization
1 versions ü
28 selfish
28DD slippers ü ü Categorization
28DD anklets ü ü Categorization
28DD sandals ü ü Categorization
28DD robe ü ü Categorization
28DD sarong ü ü Categorization
28DD cloak ü ü Categorization
28DD kimono ü ü Categorization
29 island ü ü Apply Understanding
Cinderella
Direct Vocabulary Assessment
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text Critical Strategy Assessment
2 elements ü Apply Understanding
2, 5DD scoured ü ü Outside-In, Categorization Direct Vocabulary Assessment
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of a complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
Gold Slipper Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella, Paul Fleishman; illustrations, Julie Paschkis
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hearth (4)
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lentils (9)
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adoring (27)
Cinderella, Marcia Brown
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Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella, Robert D. San Souci; illustrations, Brian Pinkney
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The Rough-Face Girl, Rafe Martin; illustrations, David Shannon
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Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella, Tony Johnston; illustrations, James Warhola
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Adelita, Tomie dePaola
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embarrassed (13)
The Korean Cinderella, Shirley Climo; illustrations, Ruth Heller
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stubborn (11)
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glimpse (36)
Grade 2 Module 1: A Season of Change
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
In order to achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic).
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at-hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Grades K–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
You will note that indirect assessments in Module 1 of Grade 2 do not include specific word banks; rather, there are reminders about using previously studied vocabulary in conversations and writing when appropriate. This is an instructional decision to reduce the cognitive load required of beginning Grade 2 students, allowing them to focus on acclimating to academic procedures and expectations. Indirect assessments will begin in Module 2.
MODULE WORD LIST
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
Teacher-provided definition; Interactive Word Wall; Deep Dive
Indirect assessment in FQT Lesson 8; Socratic Seminar in Lesson 9; Direct assessment in Deep Dives 30, 32
Direct assessment in Deep Dives 30, 32 TDQ 3 knowledge
Teacher-provided definition; Interactive Word Wall
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How Do You Know It’s Fall?
The Little Yellow Leaf
A Color of His Own
Why Do Leaves Change Color?
WORDS TO KNOW
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
“Weather,” Eve Merriam
flick
galosh
slosh
rumble
bumbershoot
clatter
How Do You Know It’s Fall?, Lisa M. Herrington
migrate
journal
direct
observe
The Little Yellow Leaf, Carin Berger
clung
lone
bare
scarlet
flurried
flocks
A Color of His Own, Leo Lionni
remain
Why Do Leaves Change Color?, Betsy Maestro
uncurl
absorb
separate
survive
usual
changing
chlorophyll
Sky Tree, Thomas Locker
open
drift
flutter
huddle
GREAT MINDS® WIT & WISDOM
Grade 2 Module 2: The American West Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic).
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-Min. Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Grades Kindergarten–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the Module Word List into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller Word Banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
The Buffalo Are Back
The Story of Johnny Appleseed
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
The Buffalo Are Back, Jean Craighead George; Illustrations, Wendell Minor
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Plains Indians, Andrew Santella
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Journey of a Pioneer, Patricia Murphy
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The Legend of the Bluebonnet, Tomie dePaola
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Johnny Appleseed, Aliki
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Johnny Appleseed, Steven Kellogg
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penetrate (26)
pouch (6)
recollections (24)
replenish (16)
routes (17)
sawdust (15)
suggested (12)
survival (28)
tranquil (5)
westward (16)
John Henry: An American Legend, Ezra Jack Keats
boiler (20)
dynamite (13)
echoed (2)
foreman (11)
fuse (14)
hoarse (18)
locomotive (12, 27)
plowed (7)
riverboat (5)
seized (7)
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John Henry, Julius Lester ; Illustrations, Jerry Pinkney
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commotion (14)
ferret (7)
flabbergasted (30)
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sledgehammer (11)
steam drill (21)
Grade 2 Module 3: Civil Rights Heroes
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
In order to achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic).
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated. Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. In Wit & Wisdom, students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, Frances E. Ruffin
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I Have a Dream, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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“America (My Country Tis of Thee),” Stephen Griffith
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Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story, Ruby Bridges
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The Story of Ruby Bridges, Robert Coles
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Separate Is Never Equal, Duncan Tonatiuh
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Grade 2 Module 4: Good Eating
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content-Specific Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic).
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-minute daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advance students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the following list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars), and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
MODULE WORD LIST
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated. The Digestive System, Christine Taylor-Butler; The Digestive System, Jennifer Prior
4 headings
4 subheadings
4 captions
5, 5 DD absorb
5 stomach
Teacherprovided definition
Teacherprovided definition
Teacherprovided definition
Deep Dive; teacherprovided definition; graphic organizer
TDQ; Response Cards
Direct Assessment in Deep Dives 30 and 31
5 small intestine
5 mouth
5 large intestine
5 rectum
TDQ; Response Cards
TDQ; Response Cards
TDQ; Response Cards
TDQ; Response Cards
7 belch Deep Dive; context clues
7 bacteria
7 saliva
Deep Dive; context clues
Deep Dive; context clues
Direct Assessment in Deep Dives 30 and 31
The Vegetables We Eat, Gail Gibbons
Good Enough to
, Lizzy Rockwell
WORDS TO KNOW
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
The Digestive System, Christine Taylor-Butler
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The Digestive System, Jennifer Prior
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Stone Soup, Marcia Brown
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Bone Button Borscht, Aubrey Davis
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The Vegetables We Eat, Gail Gibbons
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Good Enough to Eat, Lizzy Rockwell
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GREAT MINDS® WIT & WISDOMTM
Grade 3 Module 1: The Sea
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Great Minds English will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application and directly through two-question assessments (Grades K–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated. “The
Under the Wave off Kanagawa
2 objects
Teacher-provided glossary Lesson 8 Socratic Seminar
Indirect assessment in Lessons 9, 32
2 figures P Teacher-provided glossary Lesson 8, Socratic Seminar, indirect assessment in Lessons 9, 32
2 composition P Teacher-provided glossary Lesson 8 Socratic Seminar
Indirect assessment in Lessons 9, 32
2 color P Teacher-provided glossary Lesson 8 Socratic Seminar
Indirect assessment in Lessons 9, 32
2 focal point P Teacher-provided glossary Lesson 8 Socratic Seminar
Indirect assessment in Lessons 9, 32
6 gazing
6 vast P Use context to infer word meanings, and verify with dictionary
6 rage P Use context to infer word meanings, and verify with dictionary
Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
Stately (line 3)
Shoon (line 4)
Rippling (line 4)
Weaves (line 7)
Amos & Boris, William Steig
navigate (2)
sextant (3)
telescope (3)
savage (4)
seasickness (5)
marveled (7)
phosphorescent (7)
thoroughly (7)
evaded (8)
loneliness (10)
loomed (11)
mammal (11)
dreadful (11)
privilege (13)
frazzle (14)
friendliness (16)
daintiness (16)
fascinated (17)
ambitions (17)
mote (23)
desperately (8, 22)
admiration (18)
Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster, Mary M. Cerullo and Clyde F. E. Roper
colossal (5)
kraken (5)
mythic (5)
observant (5)
specimen (10)
species (16)
dilemma (16)
intriguing (16)
observation (17)
devoured (19)
autopsy (22)
permanent (24)
illuminate (25)
elusive (26)
deductions (26)
reputation (27)
vicious (27)
ferociously (27)
gorge (26)
“Lion and the Mouse,” Aesop
gnawed (line 11)
Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas, Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
carbon dioxide (4)
molecules (5)
photosynthesis (5)
microscope (12)
phytoplankton (13)
pasture (13)
nutrients (16)
gobbled (19)
zooplankton (19)
lure (24)
marine (26)
carcasses (26)
bacteria (26)
enormous (30)
currents (30)
thrust (30)
annual (4)
Shark Attack Cathy East Dubowski
gash (11)
fearsome (17)
barrier (28)
urinate (29)
repellent (31)
tumors (52)
artificial (52)
aquariums (54)
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau, Dan Yaccarino
discovered (4)
tinkering (5)
bulky (8)
rebelled (8)
engineer (9)
apparatus (9)
fashioning (9)
illuminate (12)
fascinated (13)
descend (20)
frigid (22)
teeming (22)
colonizing (25)
ambassador (31)
polluted (31)
logical (32)
bleak (32)
William Steig Biography, Macmillan Publishers website
fixture (line 5)
subsequently (line 13)
GREAT MINDS® WIT & WISDOM
Grade 3 Module 2: Outer Space
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-minute daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during the reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application and directly through two-question assessments (Grades K–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the list below into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
“Galileo’s Starry Night,” Kelly Terwilliger
“Apollo 11: The Eagle Has Landed,” Leigh Anderson
One Giant Leap, Robert Burleigh
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth http://witeng.link/glossary to generate glossaries for students.
“Galileo’s Starry Night,” Kelly Terwilliger
adjustments
craggy
spheres
peered
skeptics
Starry Messenger, Peter Sís (main text)
scholars [6]
patron [20]
spectacular [23]
extravaganza [24]
summoned [25]
absolutely [32]
Starry Messenger, Peter Sís (words in script)
influence [6]
luxuries [10]
constructed, constructing [14]
gratifying [16]
translated [22]
situated [25]
celestial [25]
obliged [26]
inquisition [28]
heresy [28]
authority [23]
demonstrations [30]
Moonshot, Brian Floca
valves [7]
ignite [16]
course [16]
gauges [20]
altitudes [27]
magnificent [32]
“We Choose the Moon,” John F. Kennedy
decade
postpone
One Giant Leap, Robert Burleigh
spindly [6]
drifts [6]
boulders [11]
forbidding [11]
precious [12]
craft [12]
tongs [22]
accelerates [35]
receding [35]
Zathura, Chris Van Allsburg
antenna [4]
mumbled [4]
evasive [8]
meteor [8]
polarity [12]
defective [17]
Grade 3 Module 3: A New Home Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
In order to achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-minute Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Grades K–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Make this list of assessed words available to students. (Lists of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated. Grandfather’s
by Allen Say
Tea with Milk by Allen Say
Coming to America: The Story of Immigration by Betsy Maestro
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text. The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth http://witeng.link/glossary to generate glossaries for students.
Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say
European
steamship
enormous
sculptures
Tea with Milk by Allen Say
matchmaker
foster
transferring
Coming to America: The Story of Immigration by Betsy Maestro
nomad
inspectors
contagious
ordeal
prejudice
tolerance
refugee
peril
transcontinental
persecution
quotas
economic
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
overcoat
artificial
nightdress
Sabbath
GREAT MINDS® WIT & WISDOM
Grade 3 Module 4: Artists Make Art
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, and so on).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content-Specific Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced, practiced during vocabulary instruction, and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Grades K–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the following list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge is also evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
MODULE VOCABULARY
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
Emma’s Rug, Allen Say
Alvin Ailey, Andrea Davis Pinkney
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, Jen Bryant
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson, Pam Muñoz Ryan
Action Jackson, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
WORDS TO KNOW
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
Emma’s Rug, Allen Say
maestro
annual
reception
certificate
celebrity
frowned
shriveled
ragged
ignored
murmured
rustled
Alvin Ailey, Andrea Davis Pinkney
hymn
tenors
congregation
heritage
premiered
haughty
strutting
sermon
sassy
revelry
integrated
triumphs
mesmerizes
repertory
ensemble
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, Jen Bryant
torrent
soothed
frustrated
imitated
archer
poplars
luminous
prescriptions
unheeded
ingenuously
pulpit
oblivious
Action Jackson, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
studio
weathered
interlacing
shocked
original
easel
emerging
swoops
prowl
flinging
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson, Pam Muñoz Ryan
unwavering
endured
staging
libretto
contralto
opera
accompanist
restrictions
trepidation
privileged
resigned
sponsored
memorial
encore
oppressed
ovations
discography
Grade 4 Module 1: A Great Heart Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, and so on).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. These words are often abstract and have multiple meanings, so they may be unfamilar to students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. daily lessons Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3-8).
Indirect Assessment Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the following list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment Students’ word knowledge is evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas.
Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
Lesson Number Word ContentSpecific Academic Text Critical Teaching Strategy Assessment
1, 1DD heart
Teacher-provided definition DD; FQT All lessons; Socratic Seminars; NRA; EOM 1, 2 literal
Direct Assessment; FQT Lessons 7–17; Socratic Seminar Lesson 16; NRA; EOM 1, 2 figurative
1 infinitely
1 transplant
1 devour
Teacher-provided definition; categorization
Teacher-provided definition; categorization
DD; FQT Lessons 1–6: Socratic Seminar; Direct Assessment; NRA; EOM
Teacher-provided definition; annotating Direct Assessment
Teacher-provided definition; annotating Direct Assessment
Teacher-provided definition; annotating
Relationship mapping; shades of meaning
Relationship mapping, morphology
Assessment
alliteration
24, 27 theme
27DD synthesize
28DD sympathetic
28DD, 29 courageous
28DD selfless
28DD honorable
Teacher-provided definition, applying understanding
Teacher-provided definition, applying understanding
FQT Lessons 18—29
Morphology, applying understanding Direct Assessment; EOM
Shades of meaning Direct Assessment
Shades of meaning Direct Assessment
Shades of meaning
Shades of meaning Direct Assessment
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary to access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth http://witeng.link/glossary to generate glossaries for students.
Clara Barton Biography
independent
relief
organization
international
lobby
educator
collected
distributed
wounded
autocratic
Helen Keller Biography
mission
tutor
strict
braille
translated
dozens
civilian
exceptional
potential
Anne Frank Biography
persecution
hiding
victim
diverse
outskirts
society
sanctions
economy
political
circumstances
emigration
immigrated
inquisitive
The Circulatory Story, Mary K. Corcoran; Illustrations, Jef Czekaj
component
hemoglobin
transport
cell
system
equivalent
branch
pressure
released
reaction
tract
contract
circuit
exchanged
coronary
Love That Dog, Sharon Creech
wheelbarrow
glazed
harness
symmetry
pasture
fetch
typed
shelter
publisher
company
honored
assaulting
inspired
Grade 4 Module 2:
Extreme Settings
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, and so on).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. These words are often abstract and have multiple meanings, so they may be unfamiliar to students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the list below into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars), and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge is evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
“All
in a
Ray Bradbury
“Dust of Snow,” Robert Frost
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary to access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth http://witeng.link/glossary to generate glossaries for students.
“All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury
compounded
concussion
slackening
dimly
savagely
tumultuously
resilient
savored
suspended
solemn
Mountains, Seymour Simon
moisture-laden
shadow
effect
water vapor
Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
Chapter 2
mocking (18)
transmission (19)
Chapter 4
abated (31)
keening (32)
massively (33)
remnants (33)
desperation (35)
Chapter 5
wither (40)
murky (41)
triggered (42)
frantic (43)
asset (47)
assumed (49)
pulverized (53)
Chapter 7
abdomen (63)
shame (64)
reflection (65)
self-pity (66)
gorge (69)
indicated (71)
drenched (72)
Chapter 9
ignite (82)
tinder (82)
kindling (82)
flammable (83)
painstaking (84)
Chapter 11
bluff (102)
gnarled (102)
emerged (102)
Chapter 12
lunged (105)
flailing (105)
thrusting (106)
persistent (109)
precise (118)
Chapter 15
mental (129)
insane (130)
memorable (131)
Chapter 16
madness (143)
Chapter 17
incessant (150)
impatience (157)
Chapter 18
visibility (163)
substantial (165)
instinctive (168)
Chapter 19
oblivious (171)
transmitter (177)
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, and so on).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. These words are often abstract and have multiple meanings, so they may be unfamiliar to students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the list below into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge is evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
revolution © 2023 Great Minds PBC
perspective, “spect”
Direct Assessment; FQT 1; SS (L8); SS (L15) 2 (all module lessons) , 6, 8, 15, 30
Root study; Apply understanding Direct Assessment; FQT 1; SS (L8); SS (L 15)
Apply understanding FQT 1; SS (L8); SS (L15)
Apply understanding; Compare synonyms and antonyms
Direct Assessment; FQT 1; SS (L8)
Apply understanding Direct Assessment; FQT 1; SS (L8); SS (L15)
Apply understanding SS (L8); Direct Assessment
Apply understanding SS (L8); Direct Assessment
Apply understanding; TDQ; Compare synonyms and antonyms
Direct Assessment; FQT 1; SS (L8); SS (L15)
“Massacre in King Street,” Mark Clemens
The Boston Massacre, Paul Revere (http://witeng.link/0207)
Scarlet Stockings Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale, Trinka Hakes
Woods
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/wordsmyth) to generate glossaries for students.
George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides, Rosalyn Schanzer
jubilant (10)
succeeded (12)
estate (14)
plantation (14)
reserve (15)
distributor (19)
infuriated (22)
enraged (22)
convicts (25)
crucial (36)
rally (36)
promote (37)
humiliated (52)
severe (57)
tackled (58)
rewarding (58)
“Massacre in King Street,” Mark Clemens
rebellious
citizens
mob
menacing
postponed
contributed
Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak, Kay Winters
lurking (The Mistress of the Dame School)
mishap (The Midwife)
views (The Barber/Wigmaker)
admire (The Barber/Wigmaker)
rouse (A Son of Liberty)
caution (A Son of Liberty)
merchants (The Patriot)
beliefs (Historical Notes)
“Detested Tea,” Andrew Matthews
competition
efficiently
disbanded
arrested
The Scarlet Stockings Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale, Trinka Hakes Noble
resembled (3)
skulked (5)
harbor (27)
mingled (8)
code (16)
smugglers (18)
solemnly (37)
Woods Runner, Gary Paulsen
Chapters 1-3
violence (16)
Chapters 4-6
provider (34)
savage (41)
staunch (46)
ally (46)
Chapters 7-9
captives (49)
jarred (54)
morale (65)
spirit (65)
Chapters 10-11
plunder (71)
confiscate (76)
Chapters 12-14
contraband (99)
Chapters 15-16
refugees (111)
majority (111)
livestock (113)
logic (114)
harvesting (115)
scavengers (118)
enterprise (123)
network (125)
stunned (128)
Chapters 17-18
veil (134)
Grade 4 Module 4: Myth Making
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, and so on.
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content-Specific Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. These words are often abstract and have multiple meanings, so they may be unfamiliar to students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the list below into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge is evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (Lists of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
Gifts from the Gods: Ancient Words & Wisdom from Greek & Roman Mythology, Lise Lunge-Larsen
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text Critical Teaching Strategy Assessment
1, 1DD invincible
1 siege
1 mortal
1 ferocity
Apply understanding, TDQ
Apply understanding
Apply understanding
Apply understanding
1 revered Apply understanding
1 distinguish Apply understanding
1 nymph Apply understanding
1 heroes Apply understanding
1, 23DD, 26DD Achilles’s heel
Apply Understanding, connect to mythological story
Direct Assessment
2, 2DD moral, morality
Apply understanding Direct Assessment 2 quest
Apply Understanding Direct Assessment
Apply understanding 3, 23DD, 26DD Pandora’s box
Apply understanding Direct Assessment
4 victory Apply understanding Direct Assessment
4 creation Apply understanding
Understanding Greek Myths, Natalie Hyde
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text Critical Teaching Strategy Assessment
1 nymph Apply understanding
2, 2DD, 5 morality Apply understanding; evidence organizer
3, 3DD polytheism poly–mono–a–theos
Apply understanding; Greek root; morphology
5 creation, create Apply understanding; evidence organizer
5 ceremonies Apply understanding; evidence organizer
5, 5DD fate Apply understanding; Idioms
Art content words
Direct Assessment
Direct Assessment
Direct Assessment
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text Critical Teaching Strategy Assessment
3 site Apply understanding to art
4 pediment
Apply understanding to art
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text Critical Teaching Strategy Assessment
8, 8DD Victory, Nike Apply understanding; Greek root
Direct Assessment
8 drapery Apply understanding Direct Assessment
13DD grace Apply understanding; Greek Root; TDQ
Pushing Up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children, Joseph Bruchac
Direct Assessment
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text Critical Teaching Strategy Assessment
8, 8DD Victory, Nike Apply understanding; Greek root
8 drama, script, setting, scene, descriptions, cast of characters, stage directions, dialogue, narrator, theme
Direct Assessment
Apply understanding
8 drama Apply understanding Direct Assessment
8 prose Apply understanding Direct Assessment
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text Critical Teaching Strategy Assessment
15, 15DD peculiarity Apply understanding
15, 17DD lunatic Apply understanding
23DD, 26DD Mythology words: Achilles’s heel arachnid
echo/narcissist fate grace Pandora’s box victory
Herculean
Word Game; Direct Assessment
24 treacherous Apply understanding
24 optimistic
28 mischievous
29 grotesquely
30 evolve
Words to Know
Apply understanding
Apply understanding
Apply understanding
Apply understanding
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary to access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
Gifts from the Gods, Lise Lunge-Larsen
revered (5)
defenders (6)
tapestry (10)
stamina (22)
vengeance (28)
summoned (29)
infuriate (30)
transgressions (57)
deities (72)
treacherous (74)
Understanding Greek Myths, Natalie Hyde
supernatural (4)
generation (4)
civilization (6)
rituals (10)
disasters (16)
transformed (19)
underworld (23)
rivals (26)
festivals (30)
competition (32)
archaeologist (36)
gymnasiums (42)
Pushing Up the Sky, Joseph Bruchac
tradition (13)
defeated (22)
improvise (40)
trickster (47)
carved (57)
randomly (63)
signal (63)
woodlands (67)
wildlife (67)
abundant (67)
ceremonies (67)
impression (69)
pantomime (73)
dwelled (79)
pueblos (79)
villages (79)
adobe (79)
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
divulge (26)
prudence (28)
temporarily (43)
mysterious (45)
potential (45)
suspected (55)
sensation (59)
instinct (61)
detour (67)
brilliant (75)
magnificent (75)
critical (82)
floorboard (85)
astonished (134)
fragile (136)
sarcastic (153)
sacred (167)
retreat (212)
defying (214)
transplanted (215)
percolating (221)
prejudgments (228)
motionless (236)
bountiful (229)
independent (245)
abandoned (248)
maneuver (255)
endangering (255)
arrangements (263)
Grade 5 Module 1:
Cultures in Conflict
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic).
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application and directly through two-question
Vocabulary Assessments (K–Grade 2) and sentence Vocabulary Assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students through. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller Word Banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
TEACHER NOTE
You may administer the assessment at any time after Lesson 30, when the last vocabulary word for this module is taught. You may also divide the assessment into smaller sections and assess throughout the module. Since we learn words through repeated use, look for opportunities to use the words in speech and writing throughout the module.
2 customs
2 prosperous
2 thriving
2 abundant
2, 5 natural resources
Students generate synonyms; teacherprovided definition; use context to infer meaning of phrase (with brilliant)
Teacherprovided definition; discussion of examples; annotation; discussion of text’s main ideas
Teacherprovided definition; annotation; discussion of text’s main ideas
Teacherprovided definition; annotation; discussion of text’s main ideas
Teacherprovided definition; annotation; discussion of text’s main ideas
Teacherprovided definition; annotation; discussion of text’s main ideas; TDQ
Vocabulary Assessment
Vocabulary Assessment
Vocabulary Assessment
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth (http://witeng.link/glossary) to generate glossaries for students.
Thunder Rolling on the Mountain, Scott O’Dell and Elizabeth Hall
travois (Ch. 1)
chieftains (Ch. 1)
warriors (Ch. 1)
locusts (Ch. 2)
devour (Ch. 2)
priest (Ch. 2)
rovers (Ch. 2)
heed (Ch. 2)
revenge (Ch. 2)
idler (Ch. 2)
banish (Ch. 2)
clan (Ch. 2)
intelligence (Ch. 3)
guardian (Ch. 3)
hailstorm (Ch. 4)
protest (Ch. 4)
cudgel (Ch. 4)
scavengers (Ch. 4)
ravine (Ch. 5)
roach haircut (Ch. 5)
breechcloths (Ch. 5)
quarrelsome (Ch. 5)
stampeded (Ch. 5)
rawhide (Ch. 5)
warily (Ch. 5)
ouse Mush (Ch. 5)
Camas Root (Ch. 5)
cradleboards (Ch. 5)
torrent (Ch. 5)
defied (Ch. 5)
flageolets (Ch. 6)
brave (Ch. 6)
bootlegger (Ch. 6)
scalped (Ch. 6)
flinch (Ch. 6)
carbine (Ch. 6)
scout (Ch. 7)
cunning (Ch. 7)
butte (Ch. 7)
summit (Ch. 8)
barricade (Ch. 8)
replenish (Ch. 9)
Silver Wire (Ch. 9)
click-clack (Ch. 9)
taunting (Ch. 10)
staggered (Ch. 10)
valiantly (Ch. 10)
furrows (Ch. 11)
parched (Ch. 11)
shameful (Ch. 11)
disgrace (Ch. 11)
endangered (Ch. 12)
raid (Ch. 12)
tethered (Ch. 12)
hobbles (Ch. 12)
lame (Ch. 12)
stern (Ch. 13)
commotion (Ch. 13)
skulking (Ch. 13)
contempt (Ch. 16)
loom (Ch. 16)
barren (Ch. 16)
gully (Ch. 16)
misshapen (Ch. 16)
war bonnet (Ch. 17)
mistook (Ch. 17)
trenches (Ch. 17)
littered (Ch. 18)
sharpshooters (Ch. 18)
malaria (Afterword)
inadequate (Afterword)
nonexistent (Afterword)
Grade 5 Module 2: Word Play
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
In order to achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom will occur within the following types of instruction:
Core 75-min. Daily Lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at-hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Kindergarten–Grade 2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the following list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge is also evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (Lists of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller Word Banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in Module 2. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
Teacherprovided
“Who’s on First?” Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding
2, 2 DD peculiar
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; relationship mapping
Teacherprovided definition; relationship mapping
Teacherprovideddefinition; apply understanding; relationship mapping; TDQ
Use word parts to infer meaning; teacherprovided definition; apply understanding
Use context to infer meaning; TDQ; apply understanding
Use context to infer meaning; apply understanding; teacherprovided definition
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 35
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 34
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 34
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 34
6 lethargy
6 DD presume
6
6
7
Use context to infer meaning; apply understanding; teacherprovided definition
Verify word meaning with dictionary; shades of meaning; apply understanding
Verify word meaning with dictionary; shades of meaning; apply understanding
Verify word meaning with dictionary; shades of meaning; apply understanding
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding
Use context to infer meaning, and verify with dictionary; apply understanding
Use context to infer meaning, and verify with dictionary; apply understanding
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 35
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 35
Use word parts and context to infer meaning;
provided definition; apply understanding
Use context to infer meaning; teacherprovided definition; apply understanding;
Use context to infer meaning; apply understanding;
provided definition
Use context to infer meaning, and verify with
Use context to infer meaning, and verify with
Use context to infer meaning, and verify with
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; TDQ
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; textdependent tasks
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; TDQ; generate examples to illustrate different meanings
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 35
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 35
21 DD dis– (prefix)
Use morphology and context to infer meaning; teacherprovided definition; morphological analysis
21 DD disconsolate Verify meaning with a dictionary; apply understanding of morphology 23
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; TDQs
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 34
New-Read Assessment
2; Direct assessment in Deep Dive 35
New-Read Assessment
2; Focusing Question Task 4; Direct assessment in Deep Dive 35 27,
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; verify word relationships with a thesaurus
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 35
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 34 28,
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; morphological analysis
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 34
Teacherprovided
apply
Teacherprovided
Focusing Question Task 4; Lesson 32 Socratic Seminar;
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth http://witeng.link/glossary to generate glossaries for students.
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
Chapter 1
dejectedly (9)
glumly (11)
phonograph (11)
genuine (12)
precautionary (12)
cartographers (13)
regulations (13)
guaranteed (13)
refunded (13)
impractical (14)
wistfully (15)
Chapter 2
effusive (18)
sanity (19)
monotonous (22)
drowsy (22)
ordinance (24)
unethical (24)
indignantly (26)
violators (26)
loiter (27)
loaf (27)
conciliatory (27)
strenuous (27)
shuddering (28)
Chapter 3
ferocious (32)
inconvenient (33)
disrepute (34)
possession (34)
precious (34)
advantageously (36)
proclamation (36)
merchandise (38)
bunting (38)
regally (38)
parchments (38)
salutations (38)
bosh (40)
essence (40)
connotation (40)
executive (42)
Chapter 4
stalls (45)
bargaining (45)
minstrels (45)
tumult (45)
bustle (47)
misapprehension (50)
intentions (52)
adept (53)
balderdash (53)
lavish (53)
spats (53)
disdain (53)
fraud (54)
imposter (54)
infuriate (56)
Chapter 5
bystander (59)
menacingly (62)
sowing confusion (62)
upsetting the applecart (62)
wreaking havoc (62)
mincing words (62)
sentence (62)
dungeon (63)
dank (63)
commendable (65)
ambition (65)
disconsolate (68)
appointed (68)
Chapter 6
barren (71)
null (71)
domain (71)
suspicious (74)
animosity (74)
provision (75)
controversies (75)
reconcile (76)
significant (76)
arbitration (77)
verdict (77)
banish (77)
disrepair (77)
Chapter 7
coat of arms (81)
signet (82)
sonnets (85)
disapprovingly (88)
unappetizing (89)
somersault (89)
rigmarole (89)
ragamuffin (89)
Chapter 8
gala (93)
scandalous (94)
stout (96)
steadfast (96)
persuade (96)
pitfalls (97)
venture (97)
prey (97)
fiends (97)
intruder (97)
devour (97)
triumphal (97)
obstacle (99)
hazardous (100)
Chapter 9
scenic (102)
contrary (102)
promontory (102)
inconvenient (106)
Chapter 10
metropolis (115)
nonexistent (117)
profusion (121)
gaunt (121)
pigment (124)
spectrum (124)
serenade (125)
Chapter 11
telescope (132)
raspy (133)
apothecary (135)
bric-a-brac (135)
stethoscope (135)
specialist (137)
clamor (137)
hubbub (137)
deficiency (138)
smog (139)
concocting (140)
dispensing (140)
sulked (140)
row (141)
pandemonium (143)
Chapter 12
laudable (145)
audible (145)
misfortune (147)
fortress (147)
guardian (147)
catalogued (147)
vaults (147)
disconsolate (148)
decree (149)
abolish (149)
deceive (150)
resolute (150)
souvenir (154)
crestfallen (154)
Chapter 13
fuse (161)
beckoned (165)
conferred (166)
desolate (168)
bleak (169)
objections (170)
Chapter 14
nimbly (172)
admonished (174)
absurd (175)
mine (178)
cavern (178)
stalactites (178)
nuisance (182)
Chapter 15
caldron (184)
savory (184)
pungent (184)
economical (186)
logical (186)
famine (186)
circumference (187)
magnitude (189)
infinity (191)
Chapter 16
distinction (196)
average (196)
discouraged (198)
melancholy (198)
stubborn (198)
ominous (200)
forbidding (203)
lurking (203)
intentions (203)
brutal (203)
mourning (204)
unkempt (204)
soiled (204)
maliciously (204)
amiably (205)
context (207)
nuisance (207)
vacantly (210)
Chapter 17
indignantly (212)
villainous (212)
petty (213)
menacing (213)
deceitful (213)
transfixed (214)
gleefully (215)
fiends (216)
sheepish (216)
lurch (219)
fearful (221)
peevishly (221)
digest (222)
unenlightened (222)
intruders (222)
Chapter 18
ledger (225)
quill pen (225)
leisurely (227)
scale (227)
deliberation (227)
loathsome (227)
destination (228)
trance (229)
engrossed (229)
ovation (229)
proportion (230)
grave (231)
gay (231)
Chapter 19
loathsome (237)
compromise (238)
hindsight (238)
gorgons (238)
malice (238)
gross exaggeration (239)
mangle (239)
threadbare excuse (239)
pathetic (239)
dilemma (242)
anguished (242)
realm (246)
ousts (246)
follies (246)
subdued (246)
gallant (249)
perils (250)
Chapter 20
satisfactory (255)
assurance (255)
erratic (255)
withered (255)
Grade 5 Module 3: A War Between Us
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, and so on).
Increase students’ ability to determine the meaning of unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/ or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom occurs within the following types of instruction:
Core seventy-five-minute daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Grades K–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing tasks, such as the EOM Task).
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (List of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller word banks for ease of use.)
Module Word List
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
The Civil War, Episode 1: “The Cause,” Ken Burns
1 *impact
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; annotate to notice and wonder
Focusing Question Tasks 1, 2, 3, 4; EOM Task
1 civil
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; use context to infer meaning
Lesson 4 Socratic Seminar; direct assessment in Deep Dive 33
“What Caused the Civil War,” Virginia Historical Society
“The North and the South,” American Battlefield Trust
Lincoln Photographs, Alexander Gardner
The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War, Jim Murphy
Women Who Went to the Field,” Clara Barton (Handout 28B)
*These are academic words related to the content of the module. They do not appear in module texts.
Words to Know
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as http://witeng.link/glossary to generate glossaries for students.
“Slavery,” Britannica Kids
enslaved
property
serfs
indentured
legally
ancient
forced
Middle Passage
cotton gin
plantations
torture
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
abolished
The Boys’ War, Jim Murphy
bombardment (1)
batteries (1)
battalions (2)
shells (3)
insurrection (5)
sergeant (8)
armory (11)
ironic (15)
blockade (16)
breeches (16)
artillery (16, 68)
civilian (17)
arms (18)
ammunition (18)
chaos (18)
regimental (18)
brigade (18)
artilleryman (19)
chronic (20)
infantry (23)
muskets (25)
rations (27)
offensive (28)
cavalry (28)
mortar (30)
Rebel (34)
rout (36)
muster (39)
casualties (41)
annihilated (70)
mortally (70)
comrade (71)
bivouacked (73)
trenches (79)
unsanitary (83)
morphine (86)
chloroform (86)
condemnation (88)
deplorable (89)
The River Between Us, Richard Peck
hardscrabble (10)
current (22)
eddies (23)
fowling (25)
saber (25)
lariats (25)
seceding (29)
simper (33)
freight (33)
bonnet (34)
corsage (35)
reticules (35)
silhouetted (35)
muff (37)
valises (39)
peculiarities (40)
corsets (43)
abolitionist (44)
besiege (48)
skedaddle (49)
loge (49)
waltz (49)
salves (52)
petticoats (54)
quadrille (56)
seeress (57)
skirmish (59)
pralines (64)
prophecies (65)
militias (66)
arsenal (66)
privy (67)
succor (77)
heathens (77)
parsonage (77)
hussy (78)
minstrel (88)
dysentery (97)
embers (99)
pneumonia (101)
typhoid (101)
dander (118)
gaunt (125)
wench (126)
stump (137)
nourish (137)
Grade 5 Module 4: Breaking Barriers
Vocabulary
Appendix B: Vocabulary
Wit & Wisdom focuses on teaching and learning words from texts. Students develop an awareness of how words are built, how they function within sentences, and how word choice affects meaning and reveals an author’s purpose.
The purpose of vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom is to achieve the following three key student outcomes:
Improve comprehension of complex texts.
Increase students’ knowledge of words and word parts (including affixes, Latin or Greek roots, etc.).
Increase students’ ability to solve for unknown words on their own.
To achieve these outcomes, vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom emphasizes the following three categories of vocabulary words:
Content-Specific Vocabulary: Necessary for understanding a central idea of the domain-specific text and/or module topic.
Academic Vocabulary: “High-priority” words that can be used across disciplines and are likely to be encountered in other texts. Often abstract and with multiple meanings, these words are unlikely to be known by students with limited vocabularies.
Text-Critical Vocabulary: Words and phrases that are essential to students’ understanding of a particular text or excerpt.
Vocabulary study in Wit & Wisdom occurs within the following types of instruction:
Core seventy-five-minute daily lessons: Vocabulary study that is essential to understanding the text at hand. Instructional strategies are explicitly introduced and practiced during vocabulary instruction and put into practice during a reading of a text.
Vocabulary Deep Dives: Vocabulary instruction and practice that advances students’ knowledge of high-value words and word-solving strategies, focusing on aspects such as abstract or multiple meanings, connotation, relationships across words, and morphology.
Vocabulary learning is assessed indirectly through application, and directly through two-question assessments (Grades K–2) and sentence assessments (Grades 3–8).
Indirect Assessment: Students are expected to use and incorporate words from the below list into their academic discourse, through speaking and listening (during Socratic Seminars) and writing (during formal writing, such as the EOM Task.
Direct Assessment: Students’ word knowledge will also be evaluated directly through definition assessments. Assessment words are selected because of their importance to the module’s content as well as their relevance and transferability to other texts and subject areas. Teachers should make this list of assessed words available to students. (The list of assessment words can also be broken down into smaller Word Banks for ease of use.)
MODULE WORD LIST
The following is a complete list of all words taught and practiced in the module. Those that are assessed, directly or indirectly, are indicated.
Nelson Mandela Iconic Speech—‘Sport Has the Power to Change the World’
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text
1, 30–35 *influence
“ESPY Awards—Nelson Mandela”
Teaching Strategy Assessment
Studentgenerated definition; teacherprovided definition
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 32; apply understanding to EOM Task
1
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text
Teaching Strategy Assessment 1 apartheid
Morphology analysis; teacherprovided definition; apply understanding
1, 17 *documentary
Teacherprovideddefinition; apply understanding
1 DD crat/cracy
Teacherprovided definition; morphological analysis; apply understanding
Morphological analysis
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 33
“Raymond’s Run”
Teacherprovided definition; define words using a glossary; analyze how vernacular and slang examples reveal character
2 DD slang
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Teacherprovided definition; analyze how vernacular and slang examples reveal character
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 2
Apply understanding to FQT 2
5, 11, 12
5, 12
*discrimination
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Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding; TDQs; Frayer Model
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 32
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding 13 logically
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 32
14,
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding DD fortitude
Teacherprovided definition; generate synonyms/ antonyms
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 33
14, 14
14, 14 DD resilience
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“Always
#LikeAGirl”
“A Boston Marathon First: Bobbi Gibb On Her History-Making Run,” CBS Boston
17–30, 17 DD
17—30, 17 DD
17, 17 DD
Studentgenerated/verified definition; apply understanding; word relationships
Studentgenerated/verify definition; apply understanding; word relationships
Teacher-provided definition; generate examples; apply understanding, TDQ; word relationships
Infer meaning from context; apply understanding; word relationships
Apply understanding in NR 2 and FQT 3; direct assessment in Deep Dive 32
Apply understanding in NR2 and FQT3; direct assessment in Deep Dive 33
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 32
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 32
Studentgenerated/ verified definition; apply understanding
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 33
Infer meaning; studentgenerated definition;
Infer meaning; studentgenerated definition; morphological analysis; apply understanding
“Helping Refugee Kids Find their Footing in the U.S.” and “Meet CNN Hero Luma Mufleh”
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text
Teaching Strategy Assessment
21 synthesize
“The Mandeville Legacy”
Lesson Word ContentSpecific Academic Text
Teacherprovided definition; apply understanding
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 32; apply understanding to FQT 3 and EOM Task
Teaching Strategy Assessment
22, 22 DD paralyzed
22 DD para—
23 DD baffled
Teacherprovided definition; morphological analysis; apply understanding
Studentgenerated definition; morphological analysis; apply understanding
Infer meaning from context; verify definition using a dictionary
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 32
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 33
Direct assessment in Deep Dive 32
23 DD zeal
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Small Group Research Texts
*These are academic words related to the content of the module. They do not appear in module texts.
WORDS TO KNOW
Understanding vocabulary and building background knowledge are essential for students’ comprehension of complex text. Wit & Wisdom students study topics for an extended period of time, building background knowledge. However, students may need additional support with unfamiliar vocabulary as they access complex text.
The words listed here may pose a challenge to student comprehension. Provide definitions or a glossary for these challenging words so that students will comprehend complex text. Use a free resource such as Wordsmyth.net to generate glossaries for students.
“ESPY Awards—Nelson Mandela,” Scott Duncan
democratically elected
implosion
racial violence
right-wingers
oppression
reconcile
underdog
fledgling
democracy
jubilation
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, Kadir Nelson
precision (17)
rookie (18)
stats (statistics) (21)
unsavory (23)
doubleheader (23)
inexplicably (24)
pasture (26)
stock market (31)
undertaker (32)
free agent (34)
portable (34)
colony (58)
barnstorm (58)
unintentionally (60)
mediocre (60)
draft (63)
barracks (63)
commissary (63)
baseball scout (70)
Major League Baseball Commissioner (70)
racial epithet (74)
eloquent (74)
“Afghan Sprinter Tahmina Kohistani Shows What’s Possible for Muslim Women,” Mike Wise, The Washington Post
Allah
devoted
hijab
reservations
retribution
“Refugees Find Hope, Film Deal on Soccer Field,” Kathy Lohr
travails
resettlement
public outcry
alma mater
exuberant
Eritrean
Abyssinian
political prisoner
“Helping Refugee Kids Find Their Footing in the U.S.,” Laura Klairmont
acclimate
atrocities
food security
influx
vulnerable
“Jackie Robinson,” National Baseball Hall of Fame
court-martialed
acquitted
honorable discharge
demeanor
debut
annals
“Street Soccer,” Connie Colón
slum
vocational
“Finding Common Ground on the Soccer Field,” Todd Tuell
rebels
adversarial
ethnic
economic
profound
striker
“Guardians of the Game,” Todd Tuell
legacy
initiative
infrastructure
vital
prospects