Description
Want to try Science of Reading-aligned vocabulary work with one book before you buy a whole unit? These free Each Kindness vocabulary activities give you a week of work on six words from Jacqueline Woodson’s Each Kindness: settled, laced, tattered, thawed, rippled, and remained.
Students meet each word in the book first, gather clues from the text, and work out what it means before they practice using it. There’s no word list to memorize and no copying definitions out of a dictionary.
The book is not included. It’s a favorite that most school libraries already have.
How the week works:
- Word cards for the week’s words
- What Do You Think? Students record each word’s part of speech and the clues the book gives, then write what they think it means in their own words.
- Practice pages for using the words in new ways
- Show What You Know, a quick formative check on the week’s words
Get the rest:
Each Kindness is one of the ten books in my vocabulary companion to Volume 3, Unit 2, and the Volume 3 vocabulary bundle has all 40 books.
Teaching Each Kindness for more than vocabulary? Download my free Each Kindness mentor sentence lesson and my free Each Kindness reading and writing activities, too.
Want the whole year? My Yearlong Mentor Text Curriculum, Volume 3 covers grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing for all 40 Volume 3 books, plus 5 bonus units.
Want to read more about how I teach vocabulary?
- Teaching Vocabulary in Context: My Journey from Mistakes to Mastery
- 3 Big Reasons Why You Should Throw Out the Vocabulary List
- Make Vocabulary Stick With These Five Activities
These files are for one teacher. If a colleague wants a copy, please send them to this page so they can download their own. Thank you!
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