Stuff for Middle School Language Arts Teachers
Tuesday September 7th 2010

Academic Words

Here’s a link to the lists of academic words I use, along with pretests and exercises. I have have condensed the first eight of the famous 10 lists from 60  words each down to 20. A guy that works with the guy originated these lists of the most commonly used words in academic writing also has exercises. He does his cloze stylie, like mine, and they’re pretty cool, web-based style, but mine are printer friendly and aimed at seventh graders. If you want versions that are even more printer-friendly (with the answers), head on over to clickers.mrcoward.com.

I’ll update the list to include two more lists and corresponding exercises soon.

Post Published: 09 May 2010
Author: mrC
Found in section: Academic Words, Vocabulary

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One Response to “Academic Words”

  1. Audrey says:
    August 22, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    I will be using this information for tutoring. I have read rave reviews about this site and I will be using this for my students.

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