Vocabulary Ladders

Understanding Word Nuances Level 2

Melissa Cheesman Smith, Timothy Rasinski

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781425896157
• Edition: 0

Choosing appropriate words to express an idea is important to improve students'' reading comprehension and writing composition skills. Vocabulary Ladders: Understanding Words Nuances provides second grade students with fun and engaging vocabulary activities to support word knowledge within reading and writing skills. This resource provides a framework to teach related words using a cluster approach that helps students learn many semantically related words at once. With this series, students will discuss differences between themed words, order words and explain their thinking, use words in context, and use words in writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Credits
• Page 3 - Table of Contents
• Page 4 - Table of Contents
• Page 5 - A Note to the Educator
• Page 6 - Research
• Page 7 - Effective Vocabulary Instruction
• Page 8 - What Are Vocabulary Ladders?
• Page 10 - Implementing Vocabulary Ladders in the Classroom
• Page 12 - Tips for Extensions
• Page 13 - How to Use This Book
• Page 13 - Lesson Overview
• Page 15 - How to Implement the Lessons
• Page 20 - Correlation to the Standards
• Page 21 - Standards Chart
• Page 22 - Temperature
• Page 28 - Noise Level
• Page 34 - Way of Eating
• Page 40 - Level of Interest
• Page 46 - Force of Hitting an Object
• Page 52 - Destroying
• Page 58 - Making
• Page 64 - Distance
• Page 70 - Stone Size
• Page 76 - Quality of Work
• Page 82 - Amount of Water
• Page 88 - Fire
• Page 94 - Smell
• Page 100 - Attractiveness
• Page 106 - Group Size
• Page 112 - Level of Understanding
• Page 118 - What to Do with a Ball
• Page 124 - Rain
• Page 130 - Feelings
• Page 136 - Weather
• Page 142 - Appendix A: Vocabulary Ladders Template
• Page 143 - Appendix B: References Cited
• Page 144 - Appendix C: Contents of the Digital Resource CD
• Thank You Page