Flocabulary Plus by Nearpod

Flocabulary’s educational hip-hop videos and research-based curricular tools build academic vocabulary and comprehension through rigorous and authentically engaging instructional experiences.   

Unlock comprehension through vocabulary acquisition across the curriculum

https://www.flocabulary.com/

Type of content in Flocabulary 

Flocabulary provides a variety of lesson content to cover a range of grade levels and subject areas. For all content, Flocabulary lessons expose students to Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary words using a similar framework, with a video to introduce the vocabulary using hip-hop music and multiple activities where students can interact with the vocabulary words in different ways with increasing complexity.

• Subject area specific lessons (Tier 3 vocabulary)
• Word Up (Tier 2 vocabulary)
• Current events (Tier 2 and Tier 3)
• Life skills: Flocabulary also provides content on life skills, including racial and social justice, social and emotional learning, health and wellness, and financial literacy. These lessons focus on content related to students' personal, academic and professional lives.

Tier 1 words are basic words that students typically know, unless they are an ELL, and in that case they may need to be taught that word. Tier 1 words include: computer, sunlight, coffee, sleep, etc.

Tier 2 words are those that are often used in classrooms and extend beyond one particular subject area, including: analyze, tweak, estimate, determine — words in that academic arena.

Tier 3 words are highly specific for each content area, and are housed within a particular subject. Examples of Tier 3 words include: parabola, hypotenuse, simile, monarchy, osmosis, etc.

The Lesson Sequence

Research-based, standards-aligned, and sequenced to build higher-order thinking—explore how Flocabulary strengthens students' vocabulary, and comprehension at every level.

 

 

 

Explore the Flocabulary Lesson Sequence

 

Build Vocabulary and Engagement with Word Up. The Word Up Project is an award-winning vocabulary and reading program, a comprehensive resource for teaching Tier 2 words. Word Up is a research-based, standards-aligned resource that is proven to raise scores on state reading tests.

Teaching Other Subjects Using Word Up

Tier 1 words are basic words that students typically know, unless they are an ELL, and in that case they may need to be taught that word. Tier 1 words include: computer, sunlight, coffee, sleep, etc.

Tier 2 words are those that are often used in classrooms and extend beyond one particular subject area, including: analyze, tweak, estimate, determine — words in that academic arena.

Tier 3 words are highly specific for each content area, and are housed within a particular subject. Examples of Tier 3 words include: parabola, hypotenuse, simile, monarchy, osmosis, etc. 

https://www.flocabulary.com/subjects/vocabulary/

Wordlists

https://www.flocabulary.com/wordlists/

Create a Flocabulary Mix Lesson

Flocabulary Mix is a new feature that guides students through a close viewing and analysis of Flocabulary videos: designed to help students develop and practice comprehension strategies and habits of evidence gathering.  

A mix lesson will pair two types of videos to create an original Flocabulary Mix Lesson:  

• Skill Videos are short videos that feature a host providing direct instruction (spoken, not rapped) of key comprehension skills, including main idea, making inferences, theme, author’s purpose, and characters.
• Video Texts are hip-hop videos made to be analyzed using the featured skills. These engaging nonfiction and fiction hip-hop videos cover diverse topics ranging from science and social studies to original and existing fiction, art, technology, and music.

https://www.etchkshop.com/collections/flocabulary

https://www.flocabulary.com/lesson-resources/

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