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World's Worst Pet - Vocabulary

Help your students build a rich vocabulary of essential words! World’s Worst Pet exposes students to over 1000...

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Help your students build a rich vocabulary of essential words! World’s Worst Pet exposes students to over 1000 Tier Two words at 6 different levels through four engaging games. Aligned to the Common Core, this app provides student-friendly definitions, a playful narrative, a fun reward system and thought-provoking writing prompts!

World’s Worst Pet is part of i-Ready— an award-winning, blended learning program published by Curriculum Associates. Learn more about i-Ready at i-ready.com/empower.

FEATURES

World’s Worst Pet is structured to provide repeated exposures to a cluster of conceptually related target words.
Teaches more than 1000 words across five grade levels, from grades 4 – 8 with content available for students who are working a level behind
• Student-friendly definitions provide clear explanations with rich examples that illustrate how each word is used.
Engaging narrative and reward system keeps students motivated
Activities include word context, word sort, synonyms, and antonyms.
Students see the same word multiple times in a single set of activities.
Includes Spanish cognates
Includes immediate feedback
Uses a real human voice not synthesized robotic speech
Aligns with Common Core State Standards
Writing prompts provide an opportunity to use words in types of writing identified by the Common Core

RESEARCH BASE

World’s Worst Pet leverages best practices from Reading research
Targets Tier Two words, selected from research-based lists.
Also targets domain-specific words, including science and social studies words.
Teaches words in conceptually related clusters
Provides clear student-friendly explanations
Provides multiple exposures and repeated practice across a variety of contexts
Helps students make multiple connections between words and their experiences.
Explores word relationships, including synonyms and antonyms
Includes Spanish cognates such as vehículo for vehicle or numeroso for numerous
Includes writing prompts focused on the target words in each cluster

ALIGNED TO COMMON CORE

World’s Worst Pet develops concepts, skills, and strategies as targeted by the Common Core.
• “The importance of students acquiring a rich and varied vocabulary,” write the authors of the Common Core, “cannot be overstated.”
Tier Two words are central to understanding complex text, and World’s Worst Pet provides multiple exposures and repeated practice in these words.
Aligns with vocabulary standards in these sections of the Common Core State Standards:
o Reading Standards for Literature
o Reading Standards for Information Text
o Language Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

SUPPORT

Have questions or feedback?
Email: i-readysupport@cainc.com
Phone: 800-225-0248
Monday Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. EST
Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST

Store rating

3

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61 reviews

Size

96.1 MB

Last update

July 6, 2020

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