Features

You'll love A Word a Day because it:

• contains 144 daily lessons. The structured 10 to 15 minute activities introduce words in a flexible format you can use for morning warm-ups or to keep students engaged during transition times.
• includes new features that help reinforce vocabulary, including weekly oral reviews and written assessments that ask students to apply their new words through group discussions, questions in test format, and an open-ended writing prompt.
• uses multiple approaches to teach vocabulary. Oral activities provide multiple opportunities to develop word meaning. Contains identifying features that are and are not attributes of the words, making personal connections to the words, and using the words in context while completing several types of exercises. By using and thinking about words in multiple ways, students build a deeper understanding of word meaning that goes beyond surface-level memorization.
• serves as a valuable test-prep tool. Vocabulary development enhances critical thinking, promotes comprehension of new concepts, and is the most important factor in reading comprehension, all of which are skills students need to perform successfully on state assessments.