By first or second grade, students have acquired
many vocabulary words on their own. These words, called Tier 1 words,
don’t need to be taught. By contrast, higher-level words (Tier
2 and Tier 3) must be explicitly taught to students.
| Tier
1 |
Tier 2 |
Tier 3 |
| Words
children pick up on their own without instruction |
Words important to academic success
that must be explicitly taught |
Words more technical in nature associated
with special fields |
|
school
mother
tiny
huge
walk
unhappy
laugh
beautiful
animals
birthday
clock
baby |
avoid
vanished
evade
exhausted
longed
urgent
jubilant
crafty
gratitude
resemble
coincidence
absurd |
temperature
hibernate
migrate
saddle
magnet
prescription
python
wildflower
acrobat
wheat
peninsula
isotope |
