Building Basic Vocabulary

Book excerpt: A companion to Teaching Basic, Academic, and Advanced Vocabulary by Robert J. Marzano, this notebook is carefully designed to help students learn and practice more than 2,500 basic vocabulary terms and 2,889 challenge vocabulary terms. Students can use the space provided next to each term to take notes, rate their level of understanding, or draw pictures to help them retain specific word meanings. Use this resource to support students as they acquire the basic and advanced vocabulary terms that are fundamental to English language development: Give students access to charts that will help them learn more than 5,000 vocabulary terms, organized by word clusters. Encourage learners to track their progress as they become more familiar with terms and build their literacy skills. Empower students to take notes and draw pictures to help them remember what each term means. Contents: Introduction 420 Semantic Clusters