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Knowing a Word: Assessing Vocabulary

This post took me over 2 weeks to write and I was researching for days and days and days before I even started typing.  That’s because measuring vocabulary is hard!  I can calculate a student’s guided reading level like nobody’s business.  I can tell you, in great detail, about a

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Tools for Vocabulary Instruction: A Teacher Resource Pack

Greetings, felicitations, and welcome! We’re back with a bundle of vocabulary resources to help you advance the lexicons of your burgeoning wordophiles!  Although some of these pieces were designed to be used in connection with our Jargon Journal program, they can easily be adapted for other vocabulary activities. Self Assessments

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Vital Vocabulary

Above vocabulary foldable courtesy of Laura Candler Why teach vocabulary? There’s no hyperbole in saying: Vocabulary is the best single indicator of intellectual ability and an accurate predictor of success at school. — W.B. Elley Vocabulary matters.  It really, really matters.  In a recent study, researchers took a look at

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Acquiring Vocabulary with an Interactive Vocabulary Notebook

  Words are not just words. They are the nexus—the interface—between communication and thought.  When we read, it is through words that we build, refine, and modify our knowledge. What makes vocabulary valuable and important is not the words themselves so much as the understandings they afford. –Marilyn Jager Adams

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Jargon Journal Thanksgiving Bundle

We are so excited about the great feedback we're getting from you about our new interactive vocabulary notebook, the Jargon Journal! If you were wondering, we WILL be releasing more units going forward so you should always have plenty to choose from if you decide to implement this program. Be

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Jargon Journal Christmas Bundle

We are having so much fun making our new Jargon Journal units and the feedback from you guys has been wonderful.  Click here to read more about the importance of vocabulary instruction. Click here to read more about the Jargon Journal program. We have a bundle of Christmas units in the

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Jargon Journal May Bundle

Four books for May!  Are you ready?? Click here to read more about the importance of vocabulary instruction. Click here to read more about the Jargon Journal program. Here are the May books: I adore this book–it's one of my very favorite picture books.  If you don't have a copy

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All the Jargon Journal Titles

We finally have a list for you of the upcoming Jargon Journal titles and so here we are going to list ALL of the Jargon Journal titles for the whole 12 sets. As we chose books for each set we tried our best to find readily available titles that you may

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