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

Ages: 6–8
Grades: 1–3

Grow word knowledge based on categories and expand language and thinking skills. Appealing lessons with simple language demands are perfect for children with language-learning disorders. The one-page activities feature lots of visual supports. Vocabulary is taken from graded vocabulary lists and is familiar to most students. A pretest/posttest makes it easy to measure instruction results.

Lesson formats vary and consist of tasks like:

• sorting reproducible pictures into categories and subcategories
• naming categories and items in a category
• circling, checking, and crossing out words
• coloring pictures as a reinforcer

Children learn to:

• sort things into groups of things that share a common characteristic
• understand broad categories and subcategories
• recognize which words are members of the same category
• exclude words that aren't members of a given category

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