Spotlight on Vocabulary–Level 1: Attributes – E-Book

Ages: 6–8
Grades: 1–3

Teach children to describe things in new ways and enrich their oral and written language skills. Appealing one-page lessons with simple language demands are perfect for children with language-learning disorders. Written in the successful format of the Spotlight series, this book has:

• clear, concise directions designed for students with limited language proficiency
• vocabulary taken from graded vocabulary lists familiar to most students
• a pretest/posttest
• minimal demands for spelling and writing
• appealing, one-page lessons with a variety of instruction formats

The activity pages have lots of visual supports. Lesson formats vary and consist of tasks like circling pictured items, matching pictured and written items, formulating one-word written answers, and lively games. Vocabulary is taken from graded vocabulary lists and is familiar to most students. A pretest/posttest makes it easy to measure instruction results.

Children learn to:

• describe what things look, feel like, taste like, sound like, or smell like
• use actions, functions, or parts to describe things
• exclude words that are not logical attributes of things
• describe things

E-Book Features and Benefits:

• Accessible from any device with Internet access
• Search and find using keywords
• Add notes and bookmarks as you read

40 pages • E-Book • ©2005