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 list
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,
� Selection Words: chuckled, Unit 4,
� Selection Words: beamed,
Week 1
nervous, nonsense, fumbled,
Week 1
argued, possessions, fabric,
trudged
purchased, quarreling
� Strategy: Word Parts:
� Strategy: Dictionary:
Prefixes
Multiple-Meaning Words
Unit 1,
� Selection Words: auditions, Unit 4,
� Selection Words: brilliance,
Week 2
adventure,
Week 2
affection, pleaded, exhausted,
exploring, sparkling,
guarantee, preparations
fantastic, success
� Strategy: Thesaurus: Related
� Strategy: Word Families
Words
Unit 1,
� Selection Words: donate,
Unit 4,
� Selection Words: utilize,
Week 3
unaware, members, contribute Week 3
awareness, pollution,
� Strategy: Thesaurus:
emphasize
Synonyms
� Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
Unit 1,
� Selection Words: passion,
Unit 4,
� Selection Words: anxious,
Week 4
bothering, admire, concentrate, Week 4
cross, managed, alarmed,
ached, splendid
pretend, unfortunately
� Strategy: Dictionary:
� Strategy: Word Parts:
Multiple-Meaning Words
Prefixes
Unit 1,
Week 5
� Selection Words: separate,
extermination,
storage, exact, ruined, luckiest
� Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
Unit 4,
Week 5
� Selection Words: decisions,
communicate,
essential, responsible,
research, specialist
� Strategy: Thesaurus: Related
Words
Unit 2,
Week 1
� Selection Words: sidewalks,
grumbled, traders, blossomed,
wailed, lonesome
� Strategy: Word Parts:
Compound Words
Unit 5,
Week 1
� Selection Words: fierce,
echoes, shuffles,
huddle, junior, down
� Strategy: Dictionary:
Homographs
Unit 2,
Week 2
� Selection Words: disappear,
protect, harming, supply,
capture, enclosure
� Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
Unit 5,
Week 2
� Selection Words: architects,
structures, contain, retreats,
shallow, shelter
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Homophones
Unit 2,
Week 3
� Selection Words: culture,
communities,
immigrants, established,
traditional
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Antonyms
� Selection Words: tour,
volunteers, thrilled, slogan,
deserve
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Examples
Unit 5,
Week 3
� Selection Words: crucial,
adjust, survive,
source, unpredictable
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Synonyms
Unit 5,
Week 4
� Selection Words:
appliances, owners,
construction, equipment, leaky,
project
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Paragraph Clues
� Selection Words: talented,
single, proper,
excitement, acceptance, useful
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Word Clues
� Selection Words: crackle,
starry, announced, soared,
noticed
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Sentence Clues
� Selection Words: estimate,
focus, record
� Strategy: Dictionary:
Homographs
Unit 5,
Week 5
� Selection Words:
conversation, interrupted,
boasting, scrambled, seized,
rebuild
� Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes re-, un-, dis-, pre� Selection Words: sight, odor,
venom, female, related,
identical
� Strategy: Dictionary:
Unfamiliar Words
Unit 2,
Week 4
Unit 2,
Week 5
Unit 3,
Week 1
Unit 3,
Week 2
Unit 3,
Week 3
Unit 6,
Week 1
Unit 6,
Week 2
Unit 6,
Week 3
� Selection Words: guests,
banquet, agreeable, curiosity,
gaze, untrusting
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Synonyms
� Selection Words: decorated,
symbol, darkened, gnaws,
securing, weakest
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Antonyms
� Selection Words: insightful,
technique,
majority, investigate, cunning
� Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes and Suffixes
Unit 3,
Week 4
Unit 3,
Week 5
� Selection Words: instance,
illustrate, style, textures,
sketches, suggestions
� Strategy: Context Clues:
Sentence Clues
� Selection Words: annual,
potential, expensive, politely,
wrapping, innocent
� Strategy: Dictionary:
Homophones
Unit 6,
Week 4
Unit 6,
Week 5
� Selection Words:
magnificent, masterpiece,
ingredient, recipes, tasty,
tradition
� Strategy: Dictionary: Idioms
� Selection Words: depart,
suitable, increases, observed,
advised, discouraged
� Strategy: Dictionary:
Unfamiliar Words