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 new sight words | Vocabulary preview, context sentences, pronunciation practice |
| Tuesday | Recognition & meaning | Root/prefix analysis, synonym and antonym work |
| Wednesday | Reading fluency | Context reading passages, partner reading, timed fluency drills |
| Thursday | Application & writing | Short essay or paragraph writing using weekly words |
| Friday | Review & assessment | Vocabulary quiz, reading comprehension, or writing challenge |
Instructional Goal:
Support students in reading, writing, and comprehending grade-level academic vocabulary across subjects through sight word mastery and application.
🧩 WEEK-BY-WEEK WORD LIST
Weeks 1–5: Expanding Academic Vocabulary
Focus: Developing reading fluency and academic comprehension.
- Week 1: ability, activity, actually, almost, although, amount, answer, area, arrive, attention
- Week 2: base, become, begin, believe, century, certain, clear, compare, complete, contain
- Week 3: describe, develop, difference, direction, energy, example, experiment, factor, figure, general
- Week 4: government, happen, history, human, important, include, information, interest, language, later
- Week 5: material, measure, moment, nature, number, object, occur, order, passage, pattern
🌀 Review Week: Reading comprehension practice and vocabulary word matching
Weeks 6–10: Reading for Understanding
Focus: Using sight words in context-heavy paragraphs and nonfiction texts.
- Week 6: percent, period, position, process, product, property, question, reason, recent, remember
- Week 7: result, section, sense, serve, shape, simple, solution, special, structure, surface
- Week 8: system, temperature, though, thought, through, toward, value, various, weight, wonder
- Week 9: according, across, addition, advantage, agreement, amount, attention, balance, behavior, cause
- Week 10: certain, choice, condition, connection, culture, daily, describe, direction, effect, example
🌀 Review Week: Reading response activities & comprehension discussions
Weeks 11–15: Word Application & Writing
Focus: Applying words in context and building descriptive writing skills.
- Week 11: explain, famous, figure, forward, future, heard, heavy, island, knowledge, language
- Week 12: length, level, market, modern, movement, national, notice, office, opportunity, passage
- Week 13: period, planet, power, prepare, problem, product, provide, purpose, question, reason
- Week 14: result, rule, sentence, signal, single, solve, special, story, subject, surface
- Week 15: system, table, temperature, term, though, thought, travel, truth, value, voice
🌀 Review Week: Paragraph writing and vocabulary review activities
Weeks 16–20: Fluency & Critical Thinking
Focus: Connecting sight words to inference, summarization, and cause/effect.
- Week 16: watch, weight, whole, without, wonder, writer, able, action, already, area
- Week 17: arrive, author, average, base, body, capital, compare, complete, control, copy
- Week 18: design, distance, edge, electric, energy, entire, example, experiment, explain, famous
- Week 19: field, figure, force, forward, future, history, human, idea, include, interest
- Week 20: island, length, level, machine, market, measure, movement, music, nation, notice
🌀 Review Week: Word analysis and context-based comprehension
Weeks 21–25: Comprehension & Integration
Focus: Integrating sight words into multi-paragraph reading and writing tasks.
- Week 21: object, office, operate, order, passage, pattern, percent, period, phrase, planet
- Week 22: position, process, product, property, question, reason, recent, result, rule, sentence
- Week 23: signal, simple, solution, space, special, state, structure, surface, system, table
- Week 24: temperature, term, though, thought, toward, travel, truth, value, volume, voice
- Week 25: watch, weight, whole, without, wonder, writer, action, already, answer, area
🌀 Review Week: Reading comprehension quiz and short essay using 20+ sight words
Weeks 26–30: Mastery & Review
Focus: Fluency, academic application, and confidence in reading and writing.
- Weeks 26–29: Cumulative word review through essays, poetry, and group reading projects.
- Week 30: “Master Tier Showcase” — students present an informational paragraph or story using 25+ sight words.
🏆 Final Project:
“My Word Master Portfolio” — students create a personal mini-dictionary of 50 mastered words with definitions, example sentences, and illustrations.
🎯 How This Tier Supports Development
- Strengthens academic reading fluency and comprehension across subjects.
- Reinforces word recognition through repeated exposure and varied contexts.
- Connects vocabulary to writing, discussion, and analysis.
- Builds independence and confidence for middle school literacy expectations.
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