Academic Vocabulary Volume 4 (Digital & Print)

This Academic Vocabulary Volume #4: Words about Poetry contains the DIGITAL and PRINT versions of the resource.

Help your students learn important content with this Academic Vocabulary Teaching Unit! This Poetry Words Vocabulary Unit is designed to help your secondary ELA students succeed in class and on standardized tests.

This academic vocabulary includes 5 weeks of digital and traditional-print instruction and includes 25 academic vocabulary words relating to informational texts and argument writing. Each week, students are introduced to five words at a time. Students receive a weekly academic vocabulary recording sheet where they focus on the five words in a new way each week. This resource works great as a vocabulary bell ringer or vocabulary exit ticket.

This Academic Vocabulary Resource Includes Print and Digital Formats:

• A 52-slide, PowerPoint and Google Slides presentation that explains the vocabulary routine and contains the words and definitions
• A secured PDF document with quizzes, activities, and weekly vocabulary recording pages
• Google Documents with digital student activities
• Google Forms for weekly and cumulative self-graded assessments

Weekly Academic Vocabulary Routine

• Monday: Students take a pretest (via the PPT), record the words and definitions, and assess their own knowledge.
• Tuesday: Students draw a visual representation for each of the five vocabulary words,
• Wednesday: Students make vocabulary associations and create a word web for the words.
• Thursday: Students write a reflection summary about what they learned about the words.
• Friday: Students take a weekly quiz that matches up the vocabulary word with the definition.

Culminating Academic Vocabulary Activities

• After completing the 5-week vocabulary routine, students take a 25-question final test where they match all of the words to their correct definitions. There are several vocabulary activities to help students prepare for the final test.
• 25-word Crossword Puzzle (print, only)
• 25-word Vocabulary table-match (print, only)
• Academic Vocabulary BINGO review game (digital and print)