Motto: “I’m leading with literacy!”
Goal: 10 words per week × 30 weeks
Total: 300 words
Pacing: 25 instructional weeks + 5 review/assessment weeks
🗓️ WEEKLY STRUCTURE (repeat pattern)
| Day | Focus | Activity Example |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Introduce 10 new academic sight words | Vocabulary discovery, contextual meaning exploration |
| Tuesday | Recognition & spelling | Word mapping, roots, prefixes, and suffix practice |
| Wednesday | Reading & comprehension | Multi-paragraph readings, summarizing, inferencing |
| Thursday | Writing & synthesis | Write short essays, responses, or journal entries using weekly words |
| Friday | Review & leadership | Vocabulary challenges, peer teaching, creative presentations |
Instructional Goal:
Support students in mastering sight words that enhance comprehension, critical thinking, and written expression across academic subjects.
🧩 WEEK-BY-WEEK WORD LIST
Weeks 1–5: Advanced Academic Vocabulary
Focus: Building fluency in reading and comprehension with multi-syllable and content-based words.
- Week 1: achieve, analyze, approach, argue, assume, authority, available, benefit, concept, context
- Week 2: create, define, derive, economy, environment, establish, estimate, evidence, export, factor
- Week 3: function, identify, income, indicate, interpret, involve, issue, labor, legal, legislate
- Week 4: major, method, occur, percent, period, policy, principle, process, require, research
- Week 5: response, role, section, sector, significant, similar, source, specific, structure, theory
🌀 Review Week: Context-based reading and short constructed response writing
Weeks 6–10: Applying Knowledge
Focus: Using academic words across multiple subjects and purposes.
- Week 6: analyze, apply, approach, area, assess, assume, authority, available, benefit, concept
- Week 7: data, define, derive, distribute, economy, environment, establish, estimate, evidence, export
- Week 8: factor, finance, formula, function, identify, income, indicate, individual, interpret, involve
- Week 9: issue, labor, legal, legislate, major, method, occur, percent, period, policy
- Week 10: principle, procedure, process, require, research, response, role, section, sector, significant
🌀 Review Week: “Academic Vocabulary Quest” — students locate words in real texts and explain their meaning
Weeks 11–15: Reading & Critical Thinking
Focus: Deep reading comprehension and evidence-based writing.
- Week 11: source, specific, structure, theory, variable, achieve, acquire, administer, affect, appropriate
- Week 12: aspect, assist, category, chapter, commission, community, complex, compute, conclude, conduct
- Week 13: consequence, construct, consume, credit, culture, design, distinct, element, equate, evaluate
- Week 14: feature, final, focus, impact, injure, institute, invest, item, journal, maintain
- Week 15: normal, obtain, participate, perceive, positive, potential, previous, primary, purchase, range
🌀 Review Week: Reading comprehension test + writing short essays using 20+ words
Weeks 16–20: Writing for Purpose
Focus: Integrating sight words into persuasive, narrative, and informative writing.
- Week 16: region, regulate, relevant, resident, resource, restrict, secure, seek, select, site
- Week 17: strategy, survey, text, tradition, transfer, alternative, circumstance, comment, compensate, component
- Week 18: consent, considerable, constant, constrain, contribute, convene, coordinate, core, corporate, correspond
- Week 19: criteria, deduce, demonstrate, document, dominate, emphasize, ensure, exclude, framework, fund
- Week 20: illustrate, immigrate, imply, initial, instance, interact, justify, layer, link, locate
🌀 Review Week: “Word in Action” writing project — essays or speeches incorporating 25 key terms
Weeks 21–25: Comprehension & Connection
Focus: Applying vocabulary in cross-curricular content (science, social studies, ELA).
- Week 21: maximum, mechanism, media, modify, monitor, notion, objective, orient, outcome, overall
- Week 22: parallel, parameter, phase, physical, policy, precise, predict, prime, professional, project
- Week 23: promote, proportion, publish, react, register, rely, remove, scheme, sequence, sex
- Week 24: shift, specify, statistic, status, stress, style, submit, substitute, sufficient, sum
- Week 25: summary, survive, task, technical, technique, technology, text, theory, topic, transmit
🌀 Review Week: “Reading for Purpose” project — apply sight words in science or history summaries
Weeks 26–30: Mastery & Leadership
Focus: Leading with literacy through reading, speaking, and writing fluency.
- Weeks 26–29: Comprehensive review of all 300 words through writing prompts, oral presentations, and debates.
- Week 30: “Lead Tier Literacy Showcase” — students present an original essay, speech, or multimedia project demonstrating mastery of academic sight words.
⭐ Final Project:
“My Literacy Leadership Portfolio” — students compile their best written work, word reflections, and self-assessments of growth.
🎯 How This Tier Supports Development
- Prepares students for middle school literacy and academic language.
- Strengthens reading fluency, comprehension, and inference.
- Develops mastery of academic vocabulary across content areas.
- Encourages leadership, presentation, and self-expression through literacy.
- Reinforces cumulative growth from Grades 1–4 (Start → Grow → Explore → Master → Lead).
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