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WordRoots™: Building Vocabulary Through Word Families
April 17, 2025
WordRoots, TextProject’s newest addition, offers educators targeted texts centered on root words to enhance students’ understanding of English word construction. While letter-sound fluency is necessary for decoding written words during reading developmRead More »WordRoots™: Building Vocabulary Through Word Families
TopicReads™ – Knowledge Building Texts for Middle School
December 5, 2023
TopicReads is an evidence-based set of texts that support vocabulary, background knowledge, and comprehension for struggling middle-school readers. Texts become progressively harder across the 6 levels, from an emphasis on the 600 most frequent root woRead More »TopicReads™ – Knowledge Building Texts for Middle School
Core Vocabulary Word Zones
March 23, 2022
The core vocabulary consists of 5,586 words. core vocabulary can be grouped into five word zones of frequency. The word zones for the 4,000 most-frequent word families can be found here
Core Vocabulary Word Maps
May 24, 2020
A word map is a graphic organizer that supports connections among vocabulary and ideas. TextProject provides Word Maps for the Core Vocabulary-the most important words in written English. Three types of words maps are available for the core vocabulary: synonyms, morphology, and multiple meaning of words.
Time
April 11, 2019
Since the day you were born, you have been experiencing the passage of time. There are lots of words to describe how to track time, to tell how fast or slow time moves, and to measure time. We’ve sorted these words into three groups.
People
December 15, 2018
People who take care of us. People we encounter at schools. People we see working in businesses. People are all around us. Here are some words that describe the people we encounter.
Stories of Words: Computers
March 29, 2018
When computers were invented in the 1930s scientists created new words to describe the new machine. When computers became widely used by people, people began to change the words used to describe computers. Now that computers have made its way into every corner of the world, new words and definitions of old words are created with lightning speed.
Stories of Words: Toponyms
February 12, 2018
Las Vegas. New York. Pie Town. Toponyms, or the names of places, are as different as the people who have named them. By learning the story of a toponym, you also learn the story of the people who lived in that place.
Stories of Words: Nym Word Groups
November 6, 2017
Putting words into groups can help us learn more words. For example, synonyms are a group of words that similar meanings. The word pretty is a synonym for the word beautiful. By knowing about the group, you can expand your vocabulary and knowledge about words. Words are labels for things and ideas. It makes sense that we have words to label groups of words, too.
Stories of Words: Spanish
September 8, 2017
Every day, millions of Americans are speaking Spanish. They are introducing Spanish words to the English language. Americans are speaking English words with deep Spanish roots. Or they are mixing Spanish and English words together and making new words. Whichever the case, Spanish is everywhere in the United States.
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