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Here's our shortlist of books to read with your students before, during, and after Black History Month, each paired with a ready-made vocab list.
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Here at Vocabulary.com, there's nothing we enjoy more than when kids get fired up about vocabulary improvement. As you'll see in this video, that's exactly what happens when students compete in a Vocabulary Jam.
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Our vocabulary lists for each of the 2018 National Book Award finalists will help you and your students get the most out of these diverse titles.
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When this 7th grade English teacher realized that her students could decode words but were not reading critically, she intervened immediately with Vocabulary.com and embarked on a research project to measure the outcomes. In her award-winning paper, Carolyn Streets describes the impact of systematic, direct vocabulary instruction as "transformational."
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Suggested Reading: Project LIT Community's 2018-19 Selections
Grassroots Movement Grows Young Readers and Young Leaders
The Project LIT Community cultivates a love of reading through student-led book clubs and an emphasis on engaging, culturally relevant texts. We've paired the texts on their book list with ready-made vocabulary lists that can be used as a teaching resource and to support independent learning.
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Our content team has put together a shortlist of high-quality texts by and about people of Hispanic heritage. Each title is linked to a ready-made vocabulary list that's based on the text.
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