Level 3: Vocabulary Goals and Objectives
Goal I. Students will demonstrate gathering and learning personal lists of vocabulary.
Objective 1: Students will collect 10 new words weekly that they have heard in their experiences.
Objective 2: Students will define 10 new words they have collected.
Objective 3: Students will use new vocabulary in conversations and in writing.
Objective 4: Students will determine meanings of gathered words with inflections by using knowledge of base words and inflections.
Objective 5: Students will identify and categorize synonyms and antonyms for personal vocabulary.
Goal 2: Students will demonstrate knowledge of common pre-fixes and suffixes.
Objective 1: Students will be able to identify and use vocabulary with specific pre-fixes such as “sub,” “super,” “mid,” and “inter.”
Objective 2: Students will be able to identify and use vocabulary with specific suffixes such as “ic,” “tion/ion,” “ous/ious,” and “ly”
Objective 3: Students will use new vocabulary in conversations and in writing.
Objective 4: Students will identify new vocabulary with specific pre-fixes and suffixes in written and spoken content.
Goal 3: Students will be able to use vocabulary from specified categories.
Objective 1: Students will be able to understand and use 15 vocabulary words about food/drink (such as “serving, portion, menu, refill, order, beverage”
Objective 2: Students will be able to understand and use 15 vocabulary words about household (such as “kitchen, oven, stove, cabinets, bedroom, dresser, closet, sofa, family room”
Objective 3: Students will be able to understand and use 15 vocabulary words about school (such as “assignment, due date, handout, portfolio, textbook, table of contents, index, chapter, review, essay, multiple choice”).
Objective 4: Students will be able to understand and use 15 vocabulary words about geography (such as “mountains, ocean, creek, lake, river, valley, horizon, landscape, swamp, prairie, desert, rural, forest, woods”).
Objective 5: Students will be able to understand and use 10 commonly used prepositions: “between, out, against, during, without, before, under, around, among, because of”
Goal 4: Students will be able to use idiomatic expressions related to specified categories.
Objective 1: Students will be able to understand and to use idioms relative to food/drink, household, school, and geography
Goal 5: Students will be able to use specific rules for spelling American English vocabulary.
Objective 1: Students will use the spelling rule “i before e except after c”
Objective 2: Students will drop final “e” when adding a suffix beginning with a consonant.
Objective 3: Students will drop the final silent “e” when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel
Objective 4: Students will spell previously learned words.