Word Knowledge Toolkit for Adolescent Literacy

The Word Knowledge Toolkit provides resources and activities including:

• word consciousness continuum rubric,

• word association activities,

• schoolwide word quests,

• cloze passages,

• expanding sentences,

• paint the picture,

• high-interest debates using academic vocabulary,

• plot vocabulary,

• vocabulary awareness charting,

• would you rather activities using academic vocabulary,

• character traits rating, and

• morphology chaining.

Student resource lists include onomatopoeia, words to use instead of said, and positive and negative character traits.