California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
California Treasures
Vocabulary Scope and Sequence K-6
Vocabulary words were chosen using the following research-based frequency lists:
1) Living Word Vocabulary lists by grade level
2) Avril Coxheads’s list of High-Incidence Academic Words
3) Andrew Biemiller’s Words Worth Teaching list
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Grade 2
*Oral Vocabulary and Intensive Vocabulary words taught using Oral Vocabulary Cards.
Unit 1, Week 1 / Selection Words: groan, excited, whisper, carefully, differentStrategy: Dictionary: Alphabetical Order / Unit 4, Week 1 / Selection Words: attached, delicious,
frantically, gasped, swung
Strategy: Context Clues
Unit 1, Week 2 / Selection Words: share, enjoyed, wonderful, thinning, delighted, company
Strategy: Word Parts: -ed / Unit 4, Week 2 / Selection Words: accident, attention, buddy, enormous, obeys, tip
Strategy: Context Clues: Synonyms
Unit 1, Week 3 / Selection Words: ancestors, heritage, reclaim, native, local, traditions
Strategy: Word Parts: Prefixes / Unit 4, Week 3 / Selection Words: aid, heal, informs, personal, serious
Strategy: Dictionary: Homophones
Unit 1, Week 4 / Selection Words: cultures, deaf, signing,
relatives, celebrate
Strategy: Use Dictionaries/Reference Materials / Unit 4, Week 4 / Selection Words: examines, hunger, mammal, normal, rescued, young
Strategy: Context Clues: Antonyms
Unit 1, Week 5 / Selection Words: patient, practiced, favorite, wrinkled, settled, cuddle
Strategy: Word Parts: Inflected Verbs / Unit 4, Week 5 / Selection Words: assembled, devoured, fetch, menu, simmered
Strategy: Word Parts: Inflected Verbs
Unit 2, Week 1 / Selection Words: exclaimed, concern, vendors, figure, collection
Strategy: Context Clues: Syntactic and Semantic Cues / Unit 5, Week 1 / Selection Words: burst, drifts, desert, drowns, gently, neighbor
Strategy: Context Clues
Unit 2, Week 2 / Selection Words: finally, thorny, eager, glaring, peeked, lap
Strategy: Multiple-Meaning Words / Unit 5, Week 2 / Selection Words: aroma, blooming, muscles, prickly, scent, trade
Strategy: Context Clues: Homophones
Unit 2, Week 3 / Selection Words: safe, flames, forest, heat, containers
Strategy: Word Parts: Word Families / Unit 5, Week 3 / Selection Words: ancient, confirm, hopeful, site, unable, valid
Strategy: Word Parts: Suffixes and Prefixes
Unit 2, Week 4 / Selection Words: collectors, store, reward,
clever, double, amount
Strategy: Word Parts: Suffixes / Unit 5, Week 4 / Selection Words: fluttered, giggled, peered, recognized, snuggled, vanished
Strategy: Thesaurus: Synonyms
Unit 2, Week 5 / Selection Words: allowed, powerful, invented, instrument, products, design
Strategy: Word Parts: Suffixes / Unit 5, Week 5 / Selection Words: beloved, glanced, gleamed, noble, promised, wiggled
Strategy: Word Parts: Inflected Verbs and Base Words
Unit 3, Week 1 / Selection Words: effort, mood, perform, proud, remember
Strategy: Thesaurus: Antonyms / Unit 6, Week 1 / Selection Words: beyond, burrow, distant,
lengthy, warning
Strategy: Context Clues: Possessives
Unit 3, Week 2 / Selection Words: argue, arrive, cozy, medium, noticed, stubborn
Strategy: Understanding Idioms / Unit 6, Week 2 / Selection Words: beasts, handy, itches, nibble, preen, puddles
Strategy: Word Parts: Inflected Nouns
Unit 3, Week 3 / Selection Words: impossible, pleasant, talent, treasures
Strategy: Context Clues: Multiple-Meaning Words / Unit 6, Week 3 / Selection Words: conservation, extinct,
hardest, remains, trouble
Strategy: Dictionary: Multiple-Meaning Words
Unit 3, Week 4 / Selection Words: demand, emergency, furious, impatient, neutral, sincerely
Strategy: Thesaurus: Synonyms / Unit 6, Week 4 / Selection Words: beware, destroy, grasslands, prevent, uprooted, violent
Strategy: Word Parts: Compound Words
Unit 3, Week 5 / Selection Words: creating, familiar, glamorous, imagination, memories, occasions
Strategy: Word Parts: Roots / Unit 6, Week 5 / Selection Words: agreed, gathered, jabbing, randomly, signal
Strategy: Word Parts: Inflected Ending -ed