Vocabu-Lit Series

Teach vocabulary words and strategies through selections from outstanding grade-level appropriate fiction and nonfiction

In this literature-based vocabulary program, students first read a short, unabridged passage with 10 targeted vocabulary words. The students then complete six exercises that teach strategies and reinforce word meanings. After every 10 lessons students complete a review lesson. Lesson cluster tests, section tests and a whole Book test are available in the Student Test Booklet.

Student Edition features:

• The use of literature passages to learn vocabulary
• Multiple activities for each word to reinforce learning
• Period reviews of each word for word mastery
• 300 targeted vocabulary words in each student Book

Teacher’s Edition features:

• convenient wrap-around design
• a reproducible glossary
• a “built-in dictionary”
• a comprehensive word list

Book C (Grade 3) Included selections are from: The Chocolate Touch, Ramona Quimby Age 8, Sarah Plain and Tall, The Cay, My Life in Dog Years, The Hundred Dresses, The Islander, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Captain Grey, The Whipping Boy and more!

Book D (Grade 4) Included selections from: Charlotte's Web, The Pinballs, Tuck Everlasting, The View from Saturday, James and the Giant Peach, Soccer Scoop, Rivers, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Harriet the Spy, The Grey King and more!

Book E (Grade 5) Included selections from: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Hatchet, Abel's Island, Maniac Magee, A Wrinkle in Time, Ella Enchanted, Shades of Gray, The Family Under the Bridge, Call It Courage, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ben and Me, Backwater, The Great Gilly Hopkins and more!

Book F (Grade 6): Included selections are from The Wind in the Willows, The Sign of the Beaver, Walk Two Moons, The Incredible Journey, My Life with the Chimpanzees, a speech by Chief Joseph, The Endless Steppe, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Life of Frederick Douglass, and more.

Book G (Grade 7): Included selections are from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, The Red Pony, Catherine, Called Birdy, The Old Man and the Sea, ¡Yo!, Durango Street, Black Beauty, Chapters: My Growth as a Writer, and more.

Book H (Grade 8): Included selections are from “The Bishop’s Candlesticks,” “The Standard of Living,” Innocents Abroad, “The Lesson of the Birds,” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family, Silent Spring, Tracks, the Inaugural Address, and more.

Book I (Grade 9): Included selections are from The Story of My Life, Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman’s Journey into Power, “The Outcast of Poker Flat,” The Long Season of Rain, “The Richer, the Poorer,” To Kill a Mockingbird, A Girl Named Disaster, Twenty Years at Hull-House, The Call of the Wild, and more.

Book J (Grade 10): Included selections are from The Yosemite, Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, The Joy Luck Club, Cranford, Black Ice, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a speech by John N. Mitchell, The Chimes, The House with the Green Shutters, and more.

Book K (Grade 11): Included selections are from a speech by Richard M. Nixon, In My Place, Africans in America: America’s Journey through Slavery, Spring in Mesopotamia, “The Blue Hotel,” “The Three Strangers,” The Haunted and the Haunters, Tracks, “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” and more.

Book L (Grade 12): Included selections are from Cry, the Beloved Country, A Circle of Quiet, “An Essay of the Principle of Population,” “The White Silence,” “Machiavelli,” In Our Place, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Report From Part One, Far From the Maddening Crowd, and more.