Vocabulary: Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers

• shuffle (403)
• stiff (403)
• lame (403)
• heritage (395)
• mooning (401)
• overhears (395)
• traditional (396)
• accompaniment (399)
• intently (400)
• peculiar (400)
• solemnly (405)
• unison (405)
• spite (402)
• forlorn (395)
• acknowledged (405)

I decided to increase the number of vocabulary words for this story from our usual 10 up to 15. This test will be next week.

Vocabulary - "James Forten"

Here are the ten vocabulary words for James Forten and the page numbers on which they appear in the story:

• influential - 315, 326
• coarse - 316
• dexterity - 316
• relented - 316
• vessel - 320
• subsided - 321
• languished - 323
• tentative - 323
• authorites - 320
• brisk - 315

Paul Revere Vocabulary

Here are the ten vocabulary words for And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?:

• prohibiting (263)
• congregation (264)
• muffled (270)
• incident (268)
• arousing (272)
• oppose (267)
• committee (276)
• occupied (276)
• succession (275)
• militia (276)

Vocabulary - The Fear Place

Here are the ten vocabulary words we decided on today for The Fear Place:

• futile (187)
• vague (191)
• engulfed (194)
• clutch (199)
• deliberate (199)
• refugees (199)
• dismayed (187)
• merit (186, 188)
• reassured (189)
• receding (193)

Note: This post was modified on 12/7/2006. We had to remove monotony from the list because it did not actually appear in the story; we replaced it with engulfed. We also verified all the page numbers, which appear in parentheses, where the words appear in The Fear Place.

Vocab - "Michelle Kwan"

Here are the ten vocabulary words for Michelle Kwan:

• artistic/artistry
• elements
• elegant/elegance
• discipline
• interpreting
• eligible
• wisdom
• agony
• momentum
• qualities

Vocabulary - "La Bamba"

Here are the vocabulary words the students need to study for the La Bamba vocabulary test, which will be next week:

• commotion
• mingled
• functional
• maneuvered
• dramatically
• fortunately
• assured
• confident
• energetically
• intently

Vocabulary Update: "Eye of the Storm"

Today the students looked through Eye of the Storm again, locating our ten vocabulary words and where they appear in the story.

As we did so, there was some confusion with "develop" and "filter," originally posted here. We found that "develop" is used twice on page 67 as well as on page 69, and that "developed" is used on pages 59 and 62. So, students may use either "develop" or "developed" as a vocabulary word on the test. We also discovered that "filter" actually appears in the story on page 60 as "filtered." So, the vocabulary word we will use will be "filtered" and not "filter."

I originally stated that the vocabulary test for these ten words would be this week, but I have postponed it until next Monday; we just don't have time on Friday with the spelling test and our scheduled library time.

Vocabulary - Eye of the Storm

Today we finished reviewing the words the students suggested on the Stoplight Vocabulary worksheet to go with Eye of the Storm. We have narrowed it down to ten: develop, slope, jagged, collide, glimpse, analyzed, astonished, severe, filter, and agency. These are the ten vocabulary words I will test the students on this week.

Vocabulary: Earthquake Terror

For each story that we read in Houghton Mifflin Reading we will choose ten vocabulary words that the students will study and be tested on. Of course, there are almost always far more than ten new vocabulary words in each story for the students to learn, but we are going to focus on just ten for explicit teaching. Students will pick up other new vocabulary from our readings and discussions.

We are choosing these words together, and this will be a regular assignment throughout the year. In the beginning, we will be doing this together under my close supervision and direction, and as the weeks pass, with increasingly more independence on the part of the students.

I will explain the process in more detail in a future post, but for now I want to post the ten words for Earthquake Terror so you know what vocabulary words your child is studying and will be tested on: fault, jolt, undulating, isolated, bolt, anxiety, struggled, frantic(ally), debris, and impact.