California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
California Treasures
Vocabulary Scope and Sequence K-6
Vocabulary words were chosen using the following researchbased frequency lists:
1) Living Word Vocabulary lists by grade level
2) Avril Coxheads’s list of High-Incidence Academic Words
3) Andrew Biemiller’s Words Worth Teaching lists
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Grade K
*Oral Vocabulary and Intensive Vocabulary words taught using Oral Vocabulary Cards.
Start Smart
Unit 1, Week 1
Unit 1, Week 2
Vocabulary Concepts:
Names, Opposites,
Position Words
Oral Vocabulary:
animal, imitate, protect,
resemble, together
Vocabulary Concept:
Size Words
Unit 6, Week 1
Oral Vocabulary:
borrow, equipment,
frequently,
neighborhood, organize
Vocabulary Concept:
Sequence Words
Oral Vocabulary:
admire, community,
deliver, schedule,
worker
Vocabulary Concept:
Words That Compare
Oral Vocabulary: alert,
celebration, job,
precise, repair
Vocabulary Concept:
Sequence Words
Oral Vocabulary:
blustery, chilly, cloud,
drizzle, weather
Vocabulary Concept:
Sound Words
Oral Vocabulary: mild,
month, season,
shiver, warning
Vocabulary Concept:
Words That Compare
Oral Vocabulary:
activity, cooperate,
exciting, exhausted,
gather
Vocabulary Concept:
Same and Different
Oral Vocabulary:
celebrate, change,
eager, occasion, relative
Vocabulary Concept:
Size Words
Oral Vocabulary:
compete, favorite,
friend, hobby, partner
Vocabulary Concept:
Color Words
Oral Vocabulary:
assist, game, honest,
pleasant, world
Vocabulary Concept:
Number Words
Unit 6, Week 2
Oral Vocabulary:
grateful, include,
problem, solve,
thoughtful
Vocabulary Concepts:
Color and Number
Words
Oral Vocabulary:
continue, glide, rapidly,
transportation, vehicle
Vocabulary Concept:
Shape Words
Unit 7, Week 3
Oral Vocabulary: clear,
cozy, experience,
hibernate, retreat
Vocabulary Concept:
Sound Words
Unit 8, Week 1
Oral Vocabulary:
charming, conceited,
equal, grow, plant
Vocabulary Concept:
Position Words
Unit 3, Week 2
Oral Vocabulary:
familiar, journey,
prepare, relax, travel
Vocabulary Concept:
Sound Words
Unit 8, Week 2
Unit 3, Week 3
Oral Vocabulary:
adventure, attach,
haul, massive, wheel
Vocabulary Concepts:
Shape Words, Sound
Words
Unit 8, Week 3
Oral Vocabulary:
gradually, moist,
necessary,
observe, seed
Vocabulary Concept:
Position Words
Oral Vocabulary:
arrange, basic, garden,
senses, tend
Vocabulary Concept:
Position Words
Unit 1, Week 3
Unit 2, Week 1
Unit 2, Week 2
Unit 2, Week 3
Unit 3, Week 1
Unit 6, Week 3
Unit 7, Week 1
Unit 7, Week 2
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Unit 4, Week 1
Unit 4, Week 2
Unit 4, Week 3
Unit 5, Week 1
Unit 5, Week 2
Unit 5, Week 3
Oral Vocabulary:
combine, farmer,
ingredients, market,
nutritious
Vocabulary Concept:
Fruits and Vegetables
Oral Vocabulary:
appetite, feast, flavor,
prefer, special
Vocabulary Concept:
Season Words
Oral Vocabulary:
delicious, devour, fresh,
menu, tradition
Vocabulary Concept:
Fruits and Vegetables
Oral Vocabulary:
action, compare,
content, gentle, pounces
Vocabulary Concept:
Position Words
Unit 9, Week 1
Oral Vocabulary:
annoy, distinctive, flutter,
insect, interesting
Vocabulary Concept:
Opposites
Unit 9, Week 2
Oral Vocabulary:
belong, fragile,
information, parent,
several
Vocabulary Concept:
Position Words
Oral Vocabulary:
beneath, enter, habitat,
raise, responsibility
Vocabulary Concept:
Position Words
Unit 10, Week 2
Oral Vocabulary:
amazing, deep, invite,
ocean, reason
Vocabulary Concept:
Opposites
Oral Vocabulary:
enormous, fantasy, gulp,
incredible, reality
Vocabulary Concept:
Opposites
Oral Vocabulary:
confused, describe,
insist, texture,
understand
Vocabulary Concept:
Color, Fruit, and
Vegetable Words
Oral Vocabulary:
create, decorate, design,
extraordinary, imagine
Vocabulary Concept:
Sound Words and
Opposites
Oral Vocabulary:
consider, curious,
explore, final, splendid
Vocabulary Concept:
Number Words
Unit 9, Week 3
Unit 10, Week 1
Unit 10, Week 3
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Grade 1
*Oral Vocabulary and Intensive Vocabulary words taught using Oral Vocabulary Cards.
Unit 1, Week 1
High-Frequency: jump,
not, up
Unit 4, Week 1
Unit 1, Week 2
High-Frequency: it,
over, too
Unit 4, Week 2
Unit 1, Week 3
High-Frequency: be,
ride, run
Unit 4, Week 3
Unit 1, Week 4
High-Frequency: come,
good, pull, down
Unit 4, Week 4
Unit 1, Week 5
High-Frequency: help,
now, use, very
Unit 4, Week 5
Unit 2, Week 1
High-Frequency: her,
our, they, two
Unit 5, Week 1
Unit 2, Week 2
High-Frequency: eat,
no, of, some, who
Unit 5, Week 2
Unit 2, Week 3
High-Frequency: live,
many, out, place
Unit 5, Week 3
Unit 2, Week 4
High-Frequency: again,
could, make, one, then,
three
Unit 5, Week 4
Unit 2, Week 5
High-Frequency: all,
put, show, together,
under, want
Unit 5, Week 5
High-Frequency:
across, carry, eight,
once, saw, upon, walked
y Selection Words:
borrow, trip
High-Frequency: about,
give, pretty, says, were,
write
y Selection Words:
splendid, concentrate
High-Frequency:
better, buy, change,
move
y Selection Words:
difficult, ripe
High-Frequency: ball,
head, never, should,
shout
y Selection Words:
meadow, perhaps
High-Frequency: also,
because, blue, or, other,
until
y Selection Words:
beautiful, danger
High-Frequency:
another, climbed, full,
poor, through
y Selection Words:
leaped, lucky
High-Frequency: grew,
house, knew, would
y Selection Words:
curious, idea
High-Frequency: great,
know, sound, their,
warm
y Selection Words:
extreme, predict
High-Frequency:
against, below, fall,
orange, sure, yellow
y Selection Words:
season, wondered
High-Frequency: air,
enough, eyes, learn,
open, air
y Selection Words:
cub, wild
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Unit 3, Week 1
High-Frequency: away,
school, today, way, why
Unit 6, Week 1
Unit 3, Week 2
High-Frequency: call,
funny, how, more, so,
there
Unit 6, Week 2
Unit 3, Week 3
High-Frequency: every,
from, into, people, soon,
your
Unit 6, Week 3
Unit 3, Week 4
High-Frequency: after,
done, find, new, old,
work
Unit 6, Week 4
Unit 3, Week 5
High-Frequency: any,
boy, by, goes, friends,
girl, water
Unit 6, Week 5
High-Frequency:
always, father, four,
love, mother
y Selection Words:
firm, supposed
High-Frequency: along,
early, instead, nothing,
thought
y Selection Words:
errand, suddenly
High-Frequency: build,
goes, laugh, only
y Selection Words:
interesting, ordinary
High-Frequency: been,
before, gone, searching
y Selection Words:
clues, invisible
High-Frequency:
around, begin, brought,
certain, minutes, straight
y Selection Words:
cancel, daydream
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Grade 2
*Oral Vocabulary and Intensive Vocabulary words taught using Oral Vocabulary Cards.
Unit 1, Week 1
y Selection Words:
groan, excited, whisper,
carefully, different
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Alphabetical Order
Unit 4, Week 1
Unit 1, Week 2
y Selection Words:
share, enjoyed,
wonderful, thinning,
delighted, company
y Strategy: Word Parts:
-ed
y Selection Words:
ancestors, heritage,
reclaim, native, local,
traditions
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes
y Selection Words:
cultures, deaf, signing,
relatives, celebrate
y Strategy: Use
Dictionaries/Reference
Materials
y Selection Words:
patient, practiced,
favorite, wrinkled,
settled, cuddle
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Inflected Verbs
y Selection Words:
exclaimed, concern,
vendors, figure,
collection
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Syntactic and
Semantic Cues
y Selection Words:
finally, thorny, eager,
glaring, peeked, lap
y Strategy: MultipleMeaning Words
Unit 4, Week 2
y Selection Words:
safe, flames, forest,
heat, containers
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Word Families
Unit 5, Week 3
Unit 1, Week 3
Unit 1, Week 4
Unit 1, Week 5
Unit 2, Week 1
Unit 2, Week 2
Unit 2, Week 3
Unit 4, Week 3
Unit 4, Week 4
Unit 4, Week 5
y Selection Words:
attached, delicious,
frantically, gasped,
swung
y Strategy: Context
Clues
y Selection Words:
accident, attention,
buddy, enormous,
obeys, tip
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Synonyms
y Selection Words: aid,
heal, informs, personal,
serious
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Homophones
y Selection Words:
examines, hunger,
mammal, normal,
rescued, young
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Antonyms
y Selection Words:
assembled, devoured,
fetch, menu, simmered
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Inflected Verbs
Unit 5, Week 1
y Selection Words:
burst, drifts, desert,
drowns, gently, neighbor
y Strategy: Context
Clues
Unit 5, Week 2
y Selection Words:
aroma, blooming,
muscles, prickly, scent,
trade
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Homophones
y Selection Words:
ancient, confirm,
hopeful, site, unable,
valid
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes and Prefixes
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Unit 2, Week 4
y Selection Words:
collectors, store, reward,
clever, double, amount
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
Unit 5, Week 4
Unit 2, Week 5
y Selection Words:
allowed, powerful,
invented, instrument,
products, design
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
Unit 5, Week 5
Unit 3, Week 1
y Selection Words:
effort, mood, perform,
proud, remember
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Antonyms
y Selection Words:
argue, arrive, cozy,
medium, noticed,
stubborn
y Strategy:
Understanding Idioms
y Selection Words:
impossible, pleasant,
talent, treasures
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Multiple-Meaning
Words
y Selection Words:
demand, emergency,
furious, impatient,
neutral, sincerely
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Synonyms
y Selection Words:
creating, familiar,
glamorous, imagination,
memories, occasions
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Roots
Unit 6, Week 1
Unit 3, Week 2
Unit 3, Week 3
Unit 3, Week 4
Unit 3, Week 5
Unit 6, Week 2
Unit 6, Week 3
Unit 6, Week 4
Unit 6, Week 5
y Selection Words:
fluttered, giggled,
peered, recognized,
snuggled, vanished
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Synonyms
y Selection Words:
beloved, glanced,
gleamed, noble,
promised, wiggled
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Inflected Verbs and
Base Words
y Selection Words:
beyond, burrow, distant,
lengthy, warning
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Possessives
y Selection Words:
beasts, handy, itches,
nibble, preen, puddles
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Inflected Nouns
y Selection Words:
conservation, extinct,
hardest, remains,
trouble
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words:
beware, destroy,
grasslands, prevent,
uprooted, violent
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Compound Words
y Selection Words:
agreed, gathered,
jabbing, randomly,
signal
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Inflected Ending -ed
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Grade 3
*Oral Vocabulary and Intensive Vocabulary words taught using Oral Vocabulary Cards.
Focus on mastery of week’s words and using key words as springboards to wider word learning.
Unit 1, Week 1
Unit 1, Week 2
Unit 1, Week 3
Unit 1, Week 4
Unit 1, Week 5
Unit 2, Week 1
Unit 2, Week 2
Unit 2, Week 3
y Selection Words:
chuckled, nervous,
nonsense, fumbled,
trudged
y Strategy: Word
Parts: Prefixes
y Selection Words:
auditions, adventure,
exploring, sparkling,
fantastic, success
y Strategy: Word
Families
y Selection Words:
donate, unaware,
members, contribute
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Synonyms
y Selection Words:
passion, bothering,
admire, concentrate,
ached, splendid
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning
Words
y Selection Words:
separate,
extermination,
storage, exact, ruined,
luckiest
y Strategy: Word
Parts: Suffixes
y Selection Words:
sidewalks, grumbled,
traders, blossomed,
wailed, lonesome
y Strategy: Word
Parts: Compound
Words
y Selection Words:
disappear, protect,
harming, supply,
capture, enclosure
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning
Words
y Selection Words:
culture, communities,
immigrants,
established, traditional
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Antonyms
Unit 4, Week 1
Unit 4, Week 2
Unit 4, Week 3
Unit 4, Week 4
y Selection Words:
beamed, argued,
possessions, fabric,
purchased, quarreling
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words:
brilliance, affection,
pleaded, exhausted,
guarantee, preparations
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Related Words
y Selection Words:
utilize, awareness,
pollution, emphasize
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
y Selection Words:
anxious, cross,
managed, alarmed,
pretend, unfortunately
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes
Unit 4, Week 5
y Selection Words:
decisions, communicate,
essential, responsible,
research, specialist
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Related Words
Unit 5, Week 1
y Selection Words:
fierce, echoes, shuffles,
huddle, junior, down
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Homographs
Unit 5, Week 2
y Selection Words:
architects, structures,
contain, retreats,
shallow, shelter
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Homophones
Unit 5, Week 3
y Selection Words:
crucial, adjust, survive,
source, unpredictable
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Synonyms
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Unit 2, Week 4
y Selection Words:
tour, volunteers,
thrilled, slogan,
deserve
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Examples
Unit 5, Week 4
Unit 2, Week 5
y Selection Words:
appliances, owners,
construction,
equipment, leaky,
project
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Paragraph
Clues
y Selection Words:
talented, single, proper,
excitement,
acceptance, useful
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Word Clues
y Selection Words:
crackle, starry,
announced, soared,
noticed
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Sentence Clues
y Selection Words:
estimate, focus, record
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Homographs
Unit 5, Week 5
y Selection Words:
instance, illustrate,
style, textures,
sketches, suggestions
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Sentence Clues
y Selection Words:
annual, potential,
expensive, politely,
wrapping, innocent
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Homophones
Unit 6, Week 4
Unit 3, Week 1
Unit 3, Week 2
Unit 3, Week 3
Unit 3, Week 4
Unit 3, Week 5
Unit 6, Week 1
Unit 6, Week 2
Unit 6, Week 3
Unit 6, Week 5
y Selection Words:
conversation,
interrupted, boasting,
scrambled, seized,
rebuild
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes re-, un-, dis-,
prey Selection Words:
sight, odor, venom,
female, related, identical
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Unfamiliar Words
y Selection Words:
guests, banquet,
agreeable, curiosity,
gaze, untrusting
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Synonyms
y Selection Words:
decorated, symbol,
darkened, gnaws,
securing, weakest
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Antonyms
y Selection Words:
insightful, technique,
majority, investigate,
cunning
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes and Suffixes
y Selection Words:
magnificent,
masterpiece, ingredient,
recipes, tasty, tradition
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Idioms
y Selection Words:
depart, suitable,
increases, observed,
advised, discouraged
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Unfamiliar Words
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Grade 4
Focus on mastery of week’s words and using key words as springboards to wider word learning.
Unit 1, Week 1
y Selection Words:
opportunities, border,
unions, strikes, boycotts,
citizen
y Strategy: Word
Origins
Unit 4, Week 1
y Selection Words:
eavesdropping,
acquaintance, jumble,
scornfully, logical, route
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Paragraph Clues
Unit 1, Week 2
y Selection Words:
curious, policy, ranged,
temporary, several,
frequently
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Synonyms
y Selection Words:
identified, enterprising,
persistence, venture
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Antonyms
Unit 4, Week 2
y Selection Words:
investigates, solitary,
territory, communication,
nutrients, prehistoric
y Strategy: Greek Roots
Unit 4, Week 3
y Selection Words:
endless, realistic,
sensible, protested,
paralyzed, display
y Strategy: Using a
Dictionary
y Selection Words:
peculiar, positive,
selecting, consisted,
advanced, aware
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Connotation and
Denotation
y Selection Words:
unfair, ancestors,
numerous, segregation,
avoided, injustice
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes
Unit 4, Week 4
y Selection Words:
community, linked,
restore, calculates,
donors
y Strategy: Word
Origins
y Selection Words:
trembles, debris,
rescuers, shifts,
collapsed, area
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words:
unstable, applauded,
headlines, hoisting,
assured, assembled
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
y Selection Words:
legendary, muttered,
gaped, snickering, insult,
flinched
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Description
y Selection Words:
similar, challenges,
designed, achieved,
varied
y Strategy: Idioms: Prior
Knowledge and Content
Unit 5, Week 2
Unit 1, Week 3
Unit 1, Week 4
Unit 1, Week 5
Unit 2, Week 1
Unit 2, Week 2
Unit 2, Week 3
Unit 4, Week 5
Unit 5, Week 1
Unit 5, Week 3
y Selection Words:
shimmer, eerie, lurk,
climate, silken,
lumbering
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Surrounding
Words
y Selection Words:
interfere, awkward,
proclaimed, agile,
guardian, convinced
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Synonyms
y Selection Words:
roamed, completed,
journey, natural,
relocated
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Latin Roots
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Unit 2, Week 4
Unit 2, Week 5
Unit 3, Week 1
Unit 3, Week 2
Unit 3, Week 3
Unit 3, Week 4
Unit 3, Week 5
y Selection Words:
descendants, sanctuary,
threatened, fragile,
habitat, emerge
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Paragraph Clues
y Selection Words:
sores, loosened,
mysterious, amazement,
midst, responsibility
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Homophones
y Selection Words:
weekdays, slithered,
genuine, apologize,
harmless, ambulance
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Base Words
y Selection Words:
neglected, appreciated,
misunderstood,
desperate, endured,
obedience
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes
y Selection Words:
selfish, cranky,
commotion,
exasperated, specialty,
famished
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Antonyms
y Selection Words:
dismiss, interact,
motivate, conceived,
definition
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Latin Prefixes
y Selection Words:
skyscrapers, collage,
barbecue, glorious,
strutting, swarms
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Description
Unit 5, Week 4
Unit 5, Week 5
Unit 6, Week 1
Unit 6, Week 2
Unit 6, Week 3
Unit 6, Week 4
Unit 6, Week 5
y Selection Words:
reef, partnership,
current, eventually,
brittle, suburbs
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Descriptions
y Selection Words:
rumbling, unique, dove,
massive, tangles,
encounter
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Homographs
y Selection Words:
items, clustered,
overflowing, sturdy,
glistened, bidding
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Unfamiliar Words
y Selection Words:
reference,
disappointment,
annoyed, circular,
outstretched, conducted
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
y Selection Words:
decades, active,
volunteer, transform,
violated
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Latin and Greek Roots
y Selection Words:
technique, foolishness,
inspire, evaporate,
magnify, annual
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words:
hilarious, mischief,
independence, dizzy,
nowadays, came in
handy
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Idioms
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Grade 5
Focus on mastery of week’s words and using key words as springboards to wider word learning.
Unit 1, Week 1
y Selection Words:
scald, permission,
autograph, fare, blurted,
clenched, spectacular,
approached
y Strategy:
Homophones
Unit 4, Week 1
y Selection Words:
frigid, treacherous,
triumph, uninhabited,
expedition, labor,
dismantled, abandon
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Root, Prefix, Suffix
Unit 1, Week 2
y Selection Words:
injury, mournful,
sympathy, delivering,
shrieks, decency, couple
y Strategy: Use a
Dictionary: Idioms
Unit 4, Week 2
Unit 1, Week 3
y Selection Words:
dedicated, equality,
artifacts, exhibits, site
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Inflectional Endings
Unit 4, Week 3
Unit 1, Week 4
y Selection Words:
forbidden, reluctant,
gossiped, irresistible,
elegant, mischievous,
hesitation, purchased
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
y Selection Words:
navigation, instruct,
patriots, tyrant, stark,
governor, inspect
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Word Families
Unit 4, Week 4
y Selection Words:
eldest, depicts,
detested, ignored,
refuge, projects,
obvious, obedience
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Synonyms
y Selection Words:
instill, combined,
naturalist, vacant,
diverse
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Antonyms
Unit 5, Week 1
y Selection Words:
mission, disasters,
environment, zone,
gravity, maze, adjusted,
function
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Descriptions or
Explanations
y Selection Words:
impact, supplies,
survived, violent,
involved
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Greek and Latin Roots
y Selection Words:
robot, defective, meteor,
rotated, staggered,
reversed, dangling,
tokens
y Strategy: Analogies:
Synonyms
y Selection Words:
guaranteed, supervise,
frustrated, coordination,
ease, scenery, bundle,
fused
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words:
specimens, murky,
dormant, scoured,
biology, research,
observer, transferred
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Greek and Latin Roots
y Selection Words:
species, survive, alert,
vibrates, surroundings,
prey, predators, lunging
y Strategy: Context
Clues
Unit 1, Week 5
Unit 2, Week 1
Unit 2, Week 2
Unit 4, Week 5
Unit 5, Week 2
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Unit 2, Week 3
Unit 2, Week 4
Unit 2, Week 5
Unit 3, Week 1
Unit 3, Week 2
Unit 3, Week 3
Unit 3, Week 4
Unit 3, Week 5
y Selection Words:
vastness, enthusiasm,
horizon, ravine,
presence, swerved,
suspended, distinct
y Strategy: Analogies:
Antonyms
y Selection Words:
original, wring,
advertisement,
commenced, impress,
elected, sauntered,
posed
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Compound Words
y Selection Words:
representative, colonel,
attorney, qualify,
postpone, submit,
satisfactory, notion
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Word Origins
y Selection Words:
wares, treasurer,
merchandise, educate,
instruct, burdens,
appreciation,
unfortunate
y Strategy: Analogies:
Synonyms
y Selection Words:
dismiss, intentions,
despair, descended,
accompany, delicacies,
consented, seek
y Strategy:
Homophones
Unit 5, Week 3
y Selection Words:
investigating, observed,
inhibit, conquer, insight
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Greek and Latin Roots
Unit 5, Week 4
y Selection Words:
launched, particles,
dense, inflate, anchored,
companion, hydrogen,
scientific
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Greek Roots
Unit 5, Week 5
y Selection Words:
damages, property,
available, contact,
atmosphere,
destruction, surge
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words:
slumped, soggy,
capable, categories,
strands, gigantic, credit,
luminous
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Synonyms
y Selection Words:
generations, globe,
preserve, reveal,
amusing
y Strategy:
Homographs
y Selection Words:
consulted, recover,
tasks, previous, pursuit,
proceeded, urgency,
detected
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Figurative
Language
y Selection Words:
corridor, reservation,
enlisted, invasion,
shield, location, creased,
transmission
y Strategy: Context
Clues
Unit 6, Week 3
Unit 6, Week 1
Unit 6, Week 2
Unit 6, Week 4
Unit 6, Week 5
y Selection Words:
glimpse, secluded,
behavior, arousing,
stunned, nestled,
unpleasant, source
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Clues Within
Sentences
y Selection Words:
elementary, physical,
rigid, interact,
wheelchair
y Strategy: Context
Clues
y Selection Words:
shortage, outcast,
reflected, strategy,
civilization, traditional,
complex, founding
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Word Origin
y Selection Words:
ventured, discussions,
emerged, sprawled,
unreasonable, focused,
attraction, inquire
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Latin Roots
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Grade 6
Focus on mastery of week’s words and using key words as springboards to wider word learning.
Unit 1, Week 1
Unit 1, Week 2
Unit 1, Week 3
Unit 1, Week 4
Unit 1, Week 5
Unit 2, Week 1
Unit 2, Week 2
y Selection Words:
establishment,
sensational, precarious,
extravagant,
unimaginable,
promenade, embarked,
lamented
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Word Origins
y Selection Words:
reputation, uttered,
quickened, migrant,
mistreated, wrath,
illegally, ruptured
y Strategy: Word
Families
Unit 4, Week 1
y Selection Words:
typical, specialists,
peripheral, guidance,
deteriorated, maturity,
summit, awesome
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Synonyms
Unit 4, Week 2
y Selection Words:
connection, immigrants,
isolated, poverty,
probable
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Surrounding
Words
y Selection Words:
concentrate, tinkering,
honorable, formally,
destination, immigrated,
unsteady, fidget
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Synonyms
Unit 4, Week 3
y Selection Words:
charismatic, sleuthing,
mimics, array,
significance,
despondently,
sponsoring, anonymous
y Strategy: Analogies:
Synonyms
y Selection Words:
utensils, superstitious,
civilized, excavate,
steadfastly, restored,
precede, prolong
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes
y Selection Words:
foundation, reliable,
maintain, feature,
promoted, restricted,
regions, principal
y Strategy:
Homophones: Use
Memory Devices
Unit 4, Week 5
y Selection Words:
spectators,
demonstration,
prominent, luxury,
prevail, maneuvered,
collective, adept
y Strategy: Analogies:
Relationships
y Selection Words:
inspiration, extremely,
revealed, managed,
attended
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Surrounding
Words
y Selection Words:
Renaissance,
commissioned,
proportion, miniature,
philosopher, elaborate,
envisioned, recommend
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Greek Roots
y Selection Words:
enthralled,
embarrassment,
substitutes, regulation,
grouchy, resemblance,
inscribed, capacity
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Inflectional Endings
y Selection Words:
modern, erupt, ancient,
reclaim, billow, crater,
active, energy
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Shades of Meaning
Unit 4, Week 4
Unit 5, Week 1
Unit 5, Week 2
y Selection Words:
ambitious, drowsy,
lounge, agonized,
revived, dwelling,
pondering, vapors
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary
Unit 2, Week 3
Unit 2, Week 4
Unit 2, Week 5
Unit 3, Week 1
Unit 3, Week 2
Unit 3, Week 3
Unit 3, Week 4
Unit 3, Week 5
y Selection Words:
anthropologists,
presumably, immense,
portable, nuisance
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Latin and Greek Word
Parts
y Selection Words:
remote, escort,
interpreter, vegetation,
accompanied,
venomous, withstood,
foretold
y Strategy: Use Word
Parts: Compound Words
y Selection Words:
rummaged, undetected,
chameleon, generosity,
pathetic, pursuing,
famine, scrounging
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Restatements
y Selection Words:
foreman, employee,
deny, fulfill, gloated,
flourish, vigorously,
gleefully
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Base Words
y Selection Words:
sheepishly,
coincidences,
sumptuous, sweeten,
phase, devoted,
hobbled, prospered
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Idioms
y Selection Words:
bewildering, moderate,
hamper, prohibit,
accessible
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Homographs
y Selection Words:
participate, ordeals,
nourishing, encounter,
grimaced, dejectedly,
anticipated, victorious
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Latin Roots
y Selection Words:
instinctively, decrease,
swiveled, shakily,
dilapidated, auction,
decades, rafters
y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Antonym
Unit 5, Week 3
y Selection Words:
affected, despite, region,
trigger, undertook
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Surrounding
Words
Unit 5, Week 4
y Selection Words:
affects, mass, collision,
transported, aerial,
established, methods,
century
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Word Origins
Unit 5, Week 5
y Selection Words:
clockwise, hovering,
interior, formations,
intact, severed,
wreckage, emerged
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
y Selection Words:
abruptly, anxiety,
conscious, intersection,
engulf, procedure,
souvenir, cascade
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words:
speculated, conserve,
analyzing, vital,
propelled, sedated,
dehydrated, embedded
y Strategy: Analogies:
Antonyms
Unit 6, Week 1
Unit 6, Week 2
Unit 6, Week 3
Unit 6, Week 4
Unit 6, Week 5
y Selection Words:
nonrenewable,
renewable, adverse,
generate, apparatus
y Strategy: Context
Clues
y Selection Words:
pedestrians, outskirts,
unbearable, rendezvous,
intercept, quarantine,
epidemic, plight
y Strategy: Thesaurus/
Dictionary: Synonyms
y Selection Words:
flee, exterior, structures,
residents, exhaustion,
volunteered, perished,
consumed
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Within a
Paragraph