Putting the word in the context of an 8th-grade vocabulary: I may be a bit blasé, but I can still pass notes to any 9th grader I want. 4 / 33. Nicole Fornabaio/Rd.com, iStock/EnginKorkmaz.

National vocabulary scores for 4th and 8th graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading exam rose between 2011 and 2013. Sign up for the Marketplace newsletter to get the day ...

California ranks fifth-lowest in the nation in students’ vocabulary — a critical part of reading, according to results of national standardized tests released Thursday. Overall, California ...

Owasso 8GC mastered more than 15,000 words during its time in the national competition and emerged victorious as Oklahoma's title holder. ‘An exciting achievement’: Owasso 8th Grade Center ...

Read and understand eighth-grade vocabulary, and determine how an author’s word choices, including the use of analogies and allusion, impact the meaning and tone of a text.

Given the results of the national standardized vocabulary test administered to fourth-graders and eighth-graders, it would be shocking if any fourth-grader could steamroll through all those words.

In my 1st grade classroom, I use our read-alouds to introduce our weekly vocabulary words. Before reading, I pre-select five to seven words from the text that students really need to fully ...

The appendix of the common standards, based on research by Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan, the authors of Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction, lays out ...