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Word Web Vocabulary meets and is correlated to standards in the 50 states.

Word Web Vocabulary Meets Your State’s Standards-based Requirements
Because Its Students Learn To: 

  • Use knowledge of Greek, Latin and Anglo-Saxon roots, prefixes and suffixes to understand:
    • the relationship of words with common roots, prefixes or suffixes
    • complex words
    • the meaning of unknown words in science, mathematics and social studies;
  • Recognize French, German and Spanish words that are based on the same Greek and Latin roots;
  • Identify words that have similar meanings (synonyms) and words that have opposite meanings (antonyms);
  • Use words from other languages that have been adopted into the English language;
  • Understand idioms (cold turkey, elbow grease);
  • Understand how our language grows through new pharmaceutical, household and industrial products and newly-coined words;
  • Connect to the real world through auto names (Honda Odyssey), sports teams (Denver Nuggets), acronyms (SUNOCO, BLOG, NIMBY), architectural features, election terms (lame duck, grass roots)
  • Follow teachers’ instruction and reinforcement of the following conventions in all their writing (as outlined in each teacher’s manual):
    • sentences (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory and their respective end marks) that are complete, whether they are simple, complex or compound;
    • punctuation: commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, hyphens, dashes, brackets;
    • capitalization;
    • nouns and pronouns in agreement;
    • subjects and verbs in agreement;
    • compound subjects, compound verbs
    • possessive nouns and pronouns;
    • irregular plural nouns: children, women, bacteria, media, data
    • parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections;
    • past, present and future verb tenses of both regular and irregular verbs;
    • clauses: introductory (non-dangling), dependent, independent phrases: prepositional, gerund, infinitive, participial;
    • provides grade-appropriate spelling demons to teachers
    • contributes to the overall literacy of students by providing Literary Links® and Featured Facts®;
    • references what is considered to be general knowledge;
    • encourages research through its Think Links® and Delve Deeper® features, allowing for classroom discussions and independent work to investigate a topic;
  • Act on teacher reminders that help them to:
    • Use revision strategies to improve the coherence of ideas, clarity of sentence structure and effectiveness of word choices;
    • Edit to improve sentence fluency, grammar and usage;
    • Evaluate the usefulness and credibility of data and sources;
    • Organize information from various resources and select appropriate sources to support central ideas, concepts and themes;
    • Communicate findings through oral, visual, writing or multimedia. 

WORD WEB VOCABULARY IMPROVES PERFORMANCE IN EVERY CLASSROOM!