California Treasures Vocabulary Scope and Sequence K-6

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

California Treasures
Vocabulary Scope and Sequence K-6

Vocabulary words were chosen using the following research-
based frequency lists:

1) Living Word Vocabulary lists by grade level
2) Avril Coxheads’s list of High-Incidence Academic Words
3) Andrew Biemiller’s Words Worth Teaching lists

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Grade K
*Oral Vocabulary and Intensive Vocabulary words taught using Oral Vocabulary Cards.

Start Smart Vocabulary Concepts: Unit 6, Week 1 Oral Vocabulary:
Unit 1, Week 1 Names, Opposites, Unit 6, Week 2 borrow, equipment,
Position Words Unit 6, Week 3 frequently,
Unit 1, Week 2 Oral Vocabulary: Unit 7, Week 1 neighborhood, organize
animal, imitate, protect, Unit 7, Week 2 Vocabulary Concept:
Unit 1, Week 3 resemble, together Sequence Words
Unit 2, Week 1 Vocabulary Concept: Oral Vocabulary:
Unit 2, Week 2 Size Words admire, community,
deliver, schedule,
Oral Vocabulary: worker
activity, cooperate, Vocabulary Concept:
exciting, exhausted, Words That Compare
gather Oral Vocabulary: alert,
Vocabulary Concept: celebration, job,
Same and Different precise, repair
Oral Vocabulary: Vocabulary Concept:
celebrate, change, Sequence Words
eager, occasion, relative Oral Vocabulary:
Vocabulary Concept: blustery, chilly, cloud,
Size Words drizzle, weather
Oral Vocabulary: Vocabulary Concept:
compete, favorite, Sound Words
friend, hobby, partner Oral Vocabulary: mild,
Vocabulary Concept: month, season,
Color Words shiver, warning
Oral Vocabulary: Vocabulary Concept:
assist, game, honest, Words That Compare
pleasant, world
Vocabulary Concept:
Number Words

Unit 2, Week 3 Oral Vocabulary: Unit 7, Week 3 Oral Vocabulary: clear,
Unit 3, Week 1 grateful, include, Unit 8, Week 1 cozy, experience,
problem, solve, hibernate, retreat
thoughtful Vocabulary Concept:
Vocabulary Concepts: Sound Words
Color and Number
Words Oral Vocabulary:
Oral Vocabulary: charming, conceited,
continue, glide, rapidly, equal, grow, plant
transportation, vehicle Vocabulary Concept:
Vocabulary Concept: Position Words
Shape Words

Unit 3, Week 2 Oral Vocabulary: Unit 8, Week 2 Oral Vocabulary:
Unit 3, Week 3 familiar, journey, Unit 8, Week 3 gradually, moist,
prepare, relax, travel necessary,
Vocabulary Concept: observe, seed
Sound Words Vocabulary Concept:
Position Words
Oral Vocabulary: Oral Vocabulary:
adventure, attach, arrange, basic, garden,
haul, massive, wheel senses, tend
Vocabulary Concepts: Vocabulary Concept:
Shape Words, Sound Position Words
Words

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Unit 4, Week 1 Oral Vocabulary: Unit 9, Week 1 Oral Vocabulary:
Unit 4, Week 2 combine, farmer, Unit 9, Week 2 annoy, distinctive, flutter,
Unit 4, Week 3 ingredients, market, Unit 9, Week 3 insect, interesting
Unit 5, Week 1 nutritious Unit 10, Week 1 Vocabulary Concept:
Vocabulary Concept: Opposites
Unit 5, Week 2 Fruits and Vegetables Unit 10, Week 2
Unit 5, Week 3 Oral Vocabulary: Unit 10, Week 3 Oral Vocabulary:
appetite, feast, flavor, amazing, deep, invite,
prefer, special ocean, reason
Vocabulary Concept: Vocabulary Concept:
Season Words Opposites
Oral Vocabulary: Oral Vocabulary:
delicious, devour, fresh, enormous, fantasy, gulp,
menu, tradition incredible, reality
Vocabulary Concept: Vocabulary Concept:
Fruits and Vegetables Opposites
Oral Vocabulary: Oral Vocabulary:
action, compare, confused, describe,
content, gentle, pounces insist, texture,
Vocabulary Concept: understand
Position Words Vocabulary Concept:
Color, Fruit, and
Oral Vocabulary: Vegetable Words
belong, fragile, Oral Vocabulary:
information, parent, create, decorate, design,
several extraordinary, imagine
Vocabulary Concept: Vocabulary Concept:
Position Words Sound Words and
Oral Vocabulary: Opposites
beneath, enter, habitat, Oral Vocabulary:
raise, responsibility consider, curious,
Vocabulary Concept: explore, final, splendid
Position Words Vocabulary Concept:
Number Words

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Grade 1
*Oral Vocabulary and Intensive Vocabulary words taught using Oral Vocabulary Cards.

Unit 1, Week 1 High-Frequency: jump, Unit 4, Week 1 High-Frequency:
not, up Unit 4, Week 2 across, carry, eight,
Unit 4, Week 3 once, saw, upon, walked
Unit 1, Week 2 High-Frequency: it, Unit 4, Week 4 y Selection Words:
over, too Unit 4, Week 5 borrow, trip
Unit 5, Week 1
Unit 1, Week 3 High-Frequency: be, Unit 5, Week 2 High-Frequency: about,
ride, run Unit 5, Week 3 give, pretty, says, were,
Unit 5, Week 4 write
Unit 1, Week 4 High-Frequency: come, Unit 5, Week 5 y Selection Words:
good, pull, down splendid, concentrate

Unit 1, Week 5 High-Frequency: help, High-Frequency:
now, use, very better, buy, change,
move
Unit 2, Week 1 High-Frequency: her, y Selection Words:
our, they, two difficult, ripe

Unit 2, Week 2 High-Frequency: eat, High-Frequency: ball,
Unit 2, Week 3 no, of, some, who head, never, should,
shout
High-Frequency: live, y Selection Words:
many, out, place meadow, perhaps

Unit 2, Week 4 High-Frequency: again, High-Frequency: also,
Unit 2, Week 5 could, make, one, then, because, blue, or, other,
three until
y Selection Words:
High-Frequency: all, beautiful, danger
put, show, together,
under, want High-Frequency:
another, climbed, full,
poor, through
y Selection Words:
leaped, lucky

High-Frequency: grew,
house, knew, would
y Selection Words:
curious, idea

High-Frequency: great,
know, sound, their,
warm
y Selection Words:
extreme, predict

High-Frequency:
against, below, fall,
orange, sure, yellow
y Selection Words:
season, wondered

High-Frequency: air,
enough, eyes, learn,
open, air
y Selection Words:
cub, wild

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Unit 3, Week 1 High-Frequency: away, Unit 6, Week 1 High-Frequency:
school, today, way, why Unit 6, Week 2 always, father, four,
Unit 6, Week 3 love, mother
Unit 3, Week 2 High-Frequency: call, Unit 6, Week 4 y Selection Words:
Unit 3, Week 3 funny, how, more, so, Unit 6, Week 5 firm, supposed
Unit 3, Week 4 there
Unit 3, Week 5 High-Frequency: along,
High-Frequency: every, early, instead, nothing,
from, into, people, soon, thought
your y Selection Words:
errand, suddenly
High-Frequency: after,
done, find, new, old, High-Frequency: build,
work goes, laugh, only
y Selection Words:
High-Frequency: any, interesting, ordinary
boy, by, goes, friends,
girl, water High-Frequency: been,
before, gone, searching
y Selection Words:
clues, invisible

High-Frequency:

around, begin, brought,
certain, minutes, straight
y Selection Words:
cancel, daydream

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Grade 2
*Oral Vocabulary and Intensive Vocabulary words taught using Oral Vocabulary Cards.

Unit 1, Week 1 y Selection Words: Unit 4, Week 1 y Selection Words:
Unit 1, Week 2 groan, excited, whisper, Unit 4, Week 2 attached, delicious,
Unit 1, Week 3 carefully, different Unit 4, Week 3 frantically, gasped,
Unit 1, Week 4 y Strategy: Dictionary: Unit 4, Week 4 swung
Unit 1, Week 5 Alphabetical Order Unit 4, Week 5 y Strategy: Context
Unit 2, Week 1 Unit 5, Week 1 Clues
Unit 2, Week 2 y Selection Words: Unit 5, Week 2 y Selection Words:
Unit 2, Week 3 share, enjoyed, Unit 5, Week 3 accident, attention,
wonderful, thinning, buddy, enormous,
delighted, company obeys, tip
y Strategy: Word Parts: y Strategy: Context
-ed Clues: Synonyms
y Selection Words: y Selection Words: aid,
ancestors, heritage, heal, informs, personal,
reclaim, native, local, serious
traditions y Strategy: Dictionary:
y Strategy: Word Parts: Homophones
Prefixes
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
cultures, deaf, signing, examines, hunger,
relatives, celebrate mammal, normal,
y Strategy: Use rescued, young
Dictionaries/Reference y Strategy: Context
Materials Clues: Antonyms
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
patient, practiced, assembled, devoured,
favorite, wrinkled, fetch, menu, simmered
settled, cuddle y Strategy: Word Parts:
y Strategy: Word Parts: Inflected Verbs
Inflected Verbs
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
exclaimed, concern, burst, drifts, desert,
vendors, figure, drowns, gently, neighbor
collection y Strategy: Context
y Strategy: Context Clues
Clues: Syntactic and
Semantic Cues y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: aroma, blooming,
finally, thorny, eager, muscles, prickly, scent,
glaring, peeked, lap trade
y Strategy: Multiple- y Strategy: Context
Meaning Words Clues: Homophones
y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: ancient, confirm,
safe, flames, forest, hopeful, site, unable,
heat, containers valid
y Strategy: Word Parts: y Strategy: Word Parts:
Word Families Suffixes and Prefixes

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Unit 2, Week 4 y Selection Words: Unit 5, Week 4 y Selection Words:
Unit 2, Week 5 collectors, store, reward, Unit 5, Week 5 fluttered, giggled,
Unit 3, Week 1 clever, double, amount Unit 6, Week 1 peered, recognized,
Unit 3, Week 2 y Strategy: Word Parts: Unit 6, Week 2 snuggled, vanished
Unit 3, Week 3 Suffixes Unit 6, Week 3 y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Unit 3, Week 4 Unit 6, Week 4 Synonyms
Unit 3, Week 5 y Selection Words: Unit 6, Week 5 y Selection Words:
allowed, powerful, beloved, glanced,
invented, instrument, gleamed, noble,
products, design promised, wiggled
y Strategy: Word Parts: y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes Inflected Verbs and
Base Words
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
effort, mood, perform, beyond, burrow, distant,
proud, remember lengthy, warning
y Strategy: Thesaurus: y Strategy: Context
Antonyms Clues: Possessives
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
argue, arrive, cozy, beasts, handy, itches,
medium, noticed, nibble, preen, puddles
stubborn y Strategy: Word Parts:
y Strategy: Inflected Nouns
Understanding Idioms
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
impossible, pleasant, conservation, extinct,
talent, treasures hardest, remains,
y Strategy: Context trouble
Clues: Multiple-Meaning y Strategy: Dictionary:
Words Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
demand, emergency, beware, destroy,
furious, impatient, grasslands, prevent,
neutral, sincerely uprooted, violent
y Strategy: Thesaurus: y Strategy: Word Parts:
Synonyms Compound Words
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
creating, familiar, agreed, gathered,
glamorous, imagination, jabbing, randomly,
memories, occasions signal
y Strategy: Word Parts: y Strategy: Word Parts:
Roots Inflected Ending -ed

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Grade 3
*Oral Vocabulary and Intensive Vocabulary words taught using Oral Vocabulary Cards.
Focus on mastery of week’s words and using key words as springboards to wider word learning.

Unit 1, Week 1 y Selection Words: Unit 4, Week 1 y Selection Words:
Unit 1, Week 2 Unit 4, Week 2 beamed, argued,
Unit 1, Week 3 chuckled, nervous, Unit 4, Week 3 possessions, fabric,
Unit 1, Week 4 Unit 4, Week 4 purchased, quarreling
Unit 1, Week 5 nonsense, fumbled, Unit 4, Week 5 y Strategy: Dictionary:
Unit 2, Week 1 Unit 5, Week 1 Multiple-Meaning Words
Unit 2, Week 2 trudged Unit 5, Week 2 y Selection Words:
Unit 2, Week 3 y Strategy: Word Unit 5, Week 3 brilliance, affection,
pleaded, exhausted,
Parts: Prefixes guarantee, preparations
y Selection Words: y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Related Words
auditions, adventure, y Selection Words:
utilize, awareness,
exploring, sparkling, pollution, emphasize
y Strategy: Word Parts:
fantastic, success Suffixes
y Strategy: Word y Selection Words:
anxious, cross,
Families managed, alarmed,
y Selection Words: pretend, unfortunately
y Strategy: Word Parts:
donate, unaware, Prefixes

members, contribute y Selection Words:
y Strategy: Thesaurus: decisions, communicate,
essential, responsible,
Synonyms research, specialist
y Selection Words: y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Related Words
passion, bothering,
y Selection Words:
admire, concentrate, fierce, echoes, shuffles,
huddle, junior, down
ached, splendid y Strategy: Dictionary:
y Strategy: Dictionary: Homographs

Multiple-Meaning y Selection Words:
architects, structures,
Words contain, retreats,
y Selection Words: shallow, shelter
y Strategy: Context
separate, Clues: Homophones

extermination, y Selection Words:
crucial, adjust, survive,
storage, exact, ruined, source, unpredictable
y Strategy: Context
luckiest Clues: Synonyms
y Strategy: Word

Parts: Suffixes
y Selection Words:

sidewalks, grumbled,

traders, blossomed,

wailed, lonesome
y Strategy: Word

Parts: Compound

Words
y Selection Words:

disappear, protect,

harming, supply,

capture, enclosure
y Strategy: Dictionary:

Multiple-Meaning

Words
y Selection Words:

culture, communities,

immigrants,

established, traditional
y Strategy: Context

Clues: Antonyms

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Unit 2, Week 4 y Selection Words: Unit 5, Week 4 y Selection Words:
tour, volunteers, Unit 5, Week 5
Unit 2, Week 5 thrilled, slogan, conversation,
deserve
Unit 3, Week 1 y Strategy: Context interrupted, boasting,
Unit 3, Week 2 Clues: Examples
Unit 3, Week 3 scrambled, seized,
Unit 3, Week 4 y Selection Words:
Unit 3, Week 5 appliances, owners, rebuild
construction, y Strategy: Word Parts:
equipment, leaky,
project Prefixes re-, un-, dis-,
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Paragraph pre-
Clues y Selection Words:
y Selection Words:
talented, single, proper, sight, odor, venom,
excitement,
acceptance, useful female, related, identical
y Strategy: Context y Strategy: Dictionary:
Clues: Word Clues
y Selection Words: Unfamiliar Words
crackle, starry,
announced, soared, Unit 6, Week 1 y Selection Words:
noticed Unit 6, Week 2
y Strategy: Context Unit 6, Week 3 guests, banquet,
Clues: Sentence Clues Unit 6, Week 4
y Selection Words: Unit 6, Week 5 agreeable, curiosity,
estimate, focus, record
y Strategy: Dictionary: gaze, untrusting
Homographs y Strategy: Context

y Selection Words: Clues: Synonyms
instance, illustrate, y Selection Words:
style, textures,
sketches, suggestions decorated, symbol,
y Strategy: Context
Clues: Sentence Clues darkened, gnaws,
y Selection Words:
annual, potential, securing, weakest
expensive, politely, y Strategy: Context
wrapping, innocent
y Strategy: Dictionary: Clues: Antonyms
Homophones y Selection Words:

insightful, technique,

majority, investigate,

cunning
y Strategy: Word Parts:

Prefixes and Suffixes
y Selection Words:

magnificent,

masterpiece, ingredient,

recipes, tasty, tradition
y Strategy: Dictionary:

Idioms
y Selection Words:

depart, suitable,

increases, observed,

advised, discouraged
y Strategy: Dictionary:

Unfamiliar Words

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Grade 4
Focus on mastery of week’s words and using key words as springboards to wider word learning.

Unit 1, Week 1 y Selection Words: Unit 4, Week 1 y Selection Words:

opportunities, border, eavesdropping,
unions, strikes, boycotts, acquaintance, jumble,

citizen scornfully, logical, route
y Strategy: Word y Strategy: Context

Origins Clues: Paragraph Clues

Unit 1, Week 2 y Selection Words: Unit 4, Week 2 y Selection Words:
Unit 1, Week 3 curious, policy, ranged, Unit 4, Week 3 investigates, solitary,
Unit 1, Week 4 temporary, several, Unit 4, Week 4 territory, communication,
Unit 1, Week 5 frequently Unit 4, Week 5 nutrients, prehistoric
Unit 2, Week 1 y Strategy: Thesaurus: Unit 5, Week 1 y Strategy: Greek Roots
Unit 2, Week 2 Synonyms Unit 5, Week 2
Unit 2, Week 3 y Selection Words: Unit 5, Week 3 y Selection Words:
identified, enterprising, community, linked,
persistence, venture restore, calculates,
y Strategy: Thesaurus: donors
Antonyms y Strategy: Word
Origins
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
endless, realistic, trembles, debris,
sensible, protested, rescuers, shifts,
paralyzed, display collapsed, area
y Strategy: Using a y Strategy: Dictionary:
Dictionary Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
peculiar, positive, unstable, applauded,
selecting, consisted, headlines, hoisting,
advanced, aware assured, assembled
y Strategy: Dictionary: y Strategy: Word Parts:
Connotation and Suffixes
Denotation
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
unfair, ancestors, shimmer, eerie, lurk,
numerous, segregation, climate, silken,
avoided, injustice lumbering
y Strategy: Word Parts: y Strategy: Context
Prefixes Clues: Surrounding
Words
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
legendary, muttered, interfere, awkward,
gaped, snickering, insult, proclaimed, agile,
flinched guardian, convinced
y Strategy: Context y Strategy: Thesaurus:
Clues: Description Synonyms
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
similar, challenges, roamed, completed,
designed, achieved, journey, natural,
varied relocated
y Strategy: Idioms: Prior y Strategy: Word Parts:
Knowledge and Content Latin Roots

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Unit 2, Week 4 y Selection Words: Unit 5, Week 4 y Selection Words:
Unit 2, Week 5 Unit 5, Week 5 reef, partnership,
Unit 3, Week 1 descendants, sanctuary, Unit 6, Week 1 current, eventually,
Unit 3, Week 2 Unit 6, Week 2 brittle, suburbs
Unit 3, Week 3 threatened, fragile, Unit 6, Week 3 y Strategy: Context
Unit 3, Week 4 Unit 6, Week 4 Clues: Descriptions
Unit 3, Week 5 habitat, emerge Unit 6, Week 5 y Selection Words:
y Strategy: Context rumbling, unique, dove,
massive, tangles,
Clues: Paragraph Clues encounter
y Selection Words: y Strategy: Dictionary:
Homographs
sores, loosened, y Selection Words:
items, clustered,
mysterious, amazement, overflowing, sturdy,
glistened, bidding
midst, responsibility y Strategy: Dictionary:
y Strategy: Dictionary: Unfamiliar Words
y Selection Words:
Homophones reference,
y Selection Words: disappointment,
annoyed, circular,
weekdays, slithered, outstretched, conducted
y Strategy: Word Parts:
genuine, apologize, Suffixes
y Selection Words:
harmless, ambulance decades, active,
y Strategy: Word Parts: volunteer, transform,
violated
Base Words y Strategy: Word Parts:
y Selection Words: Latin and Greek Roots

neglected, appreciated, y Selection Words:
technique, foolishness,
misunderstood, inspire, evaporate,
magnify, annual
desperate, endured, y Strategy: Dictionary:
Multiple-Meaning Words
obedience y Selection Words:
y Strategy: Word Parts: hilarious, mischief,
independence, dizzy,
Prefixes nowadays, came in
y Selection Words: handy
y Strategy: Dictionary:
selfish, cranky, Idioms

commotion,

exasperated, specialty,

famished
y Strategy: Thesaurus:

Antonyms
y Selection Words:

dismiss, interact,

motivate, conceived,

definition
y Strategy: Word Parts:

Latin Prefixes
y Selection Words:

skyscrapers, collage,

barbecue, glorious,

strutting, swarms
y Strategy: Context

Clues: Description

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Grade 5
Focus on mastery of week’s words and using key words as springboards to wider word learning.

Unit 1, Week 1 y Selection Words: Unit 4, Week 1 y Selection Words:
scald, permission, frigid, treacherous,
autograph, fare, blurted, triumph, uninhabited,
clenched, spectacular, expedition, labor,
approached dismantled, abandon
y Strategy: y Strategy: Word Parts:
Homophones Root, Prefix, Suffix

Unit 1, Week 2 y Selection Words: Unit 4, Week 2 y Selection Words:
Unit 1, Week 3 injury, mournful, Unit 4, Week 3
Unit 1, Week 4 sympathy, delivering, Unit 4, Week 4 mission, disasters,
Unit 1, Week 5 shrieks, decency, couple Unit 4, Week 5
Unit 2, Week 1 y Strategy: Use a Unit 5, Week 1 environment, zone,
Unit 2, Week 2 Dictionary: Idioms Unit 5, Week 2
gravity, maze, adjusted,
y Selection Words:
dedicated, equality, function
artifacts, exhibits, site y Strategy: Context
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Inflectional Endings Clues: Descriptions or

y Selection Words: Explanations
forbidden, reluctant, y Selection Words:
gossiped, irresistible,
elegant, mischievous, impact, supplies,
hesitation, purchased
y Strategy: Word Parts: survived, violent,
Suffixes
y Selection Words: involved
navigation, instruct, y Strategy: Word Parts:
patriots, tyrant, stark,
governor, inspect Greek and Latin Roots
y Strategy: Word Parts: y Selection Words:
Word Families
robot, defective, meteor,
y Selection Words:
eldest, depicts, rotated, staggered,
detested, ignored,
refuge, projects, reversed, dangling,
obvious, obedience
y Strategy: Thesaurus: tokens
Synonyms y Strategy: Analogies:
y Selection Words:
instill, combined, Synonyms
naturalist, vacant, y Selection Words:
diverse
y Strategy: Thesaurus: guaranteed, supervise,
Antonyms
frustrated, coordination,

ease, scenery, bundle,

fused
y Strategy: Dictionary:

Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words:

specimens, murky,

dormant, scoured,

biology, research,

observer, transferred
y Strategy: Word Parts:

Greek and Latin Roots
y Selection Words:

species, survive, alert,

vibrates, surroundings,

prey, predators, lunging
y Strategy: Context

Clues

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Unit 2, Week 3 y Selection Words: Unit 5, Week 3 y Selection Words:
Unit 2, Week 4 vastness, enthusiasm, Unit 5, Week 4 investigating, observed,
Unit 2, Week 5 horizon, ravine, Unit 5, Week 5 inhibit, conquer, insight
Unit 3, Week 1 presence, swerved, Unit 6, Week 1 y Strategy: Word Parts:
Unit 3, Week 2 suspended, distinct Unit 6, Week 2 Greek and Latin Roots
Unit 3, Week 3 y Strategy: Analogies: Unit 6, Week 3
Unit 3, Week 4 Antonyms Unit 6, Week 4 y Selection Words:
Unit 3, Week 5 y Selection Words: Unit 6, Week 5 launched, particles,
original, wring, dense, inflate, anchored,
advertisement, companion, hydrogen,
commenced, impress, scientific
elected, sauntered, y Strategy: Word Parts:
posed Greek Roots
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Compound Words y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: damages, property,
representative, colonel, available, contact,
attorney, qualify, atmosphere,
postpone, submit, destruction, surge
satisfactory, notion y Strategy: Dictionary:
y Strategy: Dictionary: Multiple-Meaning Words
Word Origins y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: slumped, soggy,
wares, treasurer, capable, categories,
merchandise, educate, strands, gigantic, credit,
instruct, burdens, luminous
appreciation, y Strategy: Context
unfortunate Clues: Synonyms
y Strategy: Analogies:
Synonyms y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: glimpse, secluded,
dismiss, intentions, behavior, arousing,
despair, descended, stunned, nestled,
accompany, delicacies, unpleasant, source
consented, seek y Strategy: Context
y Strategy: Clues: Clues Within
Homophones Sentences
y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: elementary, physical,
generations, globe, rigid, interact,
preserve, reveal, wheelchair
amusing y Strategy: Context
y Strategy: Clues
Homographs y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: shortage, outcast,
consulted, recover, reflected, strategy,
tasks, previous, pursuit, civilization, traditional,
proceeded, urgency, complex, founding
detected y Strategy: Dictionary:
y Strategy: Context Word Origin
Clues: Figurative
Language y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: ventured, discussions,
corridor, reservation, emerged, sprawled,
enlisted, invasion, unreasonable, focused,
shield, location, creased, attraction, inquire
transmission y Strategy: Word Parts:
y Strategy: Context Latin Roots
Clues

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Grade 6
Focus on mastery of week’s words and using key words as springboards to wider word learning.

Unit 1, Week 1 y Selection Words: Unit 4, Week 1 y Selection Words:
Unit 1, Week 2 establishment, Unit 4, Week 2 typical, specialists,
Unit 1, Week 3 sensational, precarious, Unit 4, Week 3 peripheral, guidance,
Unit 1, Week 4 extravagant, Unit 4, Week 4 deteriorated, maturity,
Unit 1, Week 5 unimaginable, Unit 4, Week 5 summit, awesome
Unit 2, Week 1 promenade, embarked, Unit 5, Week 1 y Strategy: Context
Unit 2, Week 2 lamented Unit 5, Week 2 Clues: Synonyms
y Strategy: Dictionary:
Word Origins y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: spectators,
reputation, uttered, demonstration,
quickened, migrant, prominent, luxury,
mistreated, wrath, prevail, maneuvered,
illegally, ruptured collective, adept
y Strategy: Word y Strategy: Analogies:
Families Relationships
y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: inspiration, extremely,
connection, immigrants, revealed, managed,
isolated, poverty, attended
probable y Strategy: Context
y Strategy: Context Clues: Surrounding
Clues: Surrounding Words
Words y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: Renaissance,
concentrate, tinkering, commissioned,
honorable, formally, proportion, miniature,
destination, immigrated, philosopher, elaborate,
unsteady, fidget envisioned, recommend
y Strategy: Thesaurus: y Strategy: Word Parts:
Synonyms Greek Roots
y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: enthralled,
charismatic, sleuthing, embarrassment,
mimics, array, substitutes, regulation,
significance, grouchy, resemblance,
despondently, inscribed, capacity
sponsoring, anonymous y Strategy: Word Parts:
y Strategy: Analogies: Inflectional Endings
Synonyms y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: modern, erupt, ancient,
utensils, superstitious, reclaim, billow, crater,
civilized, excavate, active, energy
steadfastly, restored, y Strategy: Thesaurus:
precede, prolong Shades of Meaning
y Strategy: Word Parts:
Prefixes y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: ambitious, drowsy,
foundation, reliable, lounge, agonized,
maintain, feature, revived, dwelling,
promoted, restricted, pondering, vapors
regions, principal y Strategy: Dictionary:
y Strategy: Multiple-Meaning Words
Homophones: Use
Memory Devices

California Treasures, Scope and Sequence: Vocabulary

Unit 2, Week 3 y Selection Words: Unit 5, Week 3 y Selection Words:
Unit 2, Week 4 Unit 5, Week 4 affected, despite, region,
Unit 2, Week 5 anthropologists, Unit 5, Week 5 trigger, undertook
Unit 3, Week 1 Unit 6, Week 1 y Strategy: Context
Unit 3, Week 2 presumably, immense, Unit 6, Week 2 Clues: Surrounding
Unit 3, Week 3 Unit 6, Week 3 Words
Unit 3, Week 4 portable, nuisance Unit 6, Week 4
Unit 3, Week 5 y Strategy: Word Parts: Unit 6, Week 5 y Selection Words:
affects, mass, collision,
Latin and Greek Word transported, aerial,
established, methods,
Parts century
y Selection Words: y Strategy: Dictionary:
Word Origins
remote, escort,
y Selection Words:
interpreter, vegetation, clockwise, hovering,
interior, formations,
accompanied, intact, severed,
wreckage, emerged
venomous, withstood, y Strategy: Word Parts:
Suffixes
foretold y Selection Words:
y Strategy: Use Word abruptly, anxiety,
conscious, intersection,
Parts: Compound Words engulf, procedure,
y Selection Words: souvenir, cascade
y Strategy: Dictionary:
rummaged, undetected, Multiple-Meaning Words
y Selection Words:
chameleon, generosity, speculated, conserve,
analyzing, vital,
pathetic, pursuing, propelled, sedated,
dehydrated, embedded
famine, scrounging y Strategy: Analogies:
y Strategy: Context Antonyms

Clues: Restatements y Selection Words:
y Selection Words: nonrenewable,
renewable, adverse,
foreman, employee, generate, apparatus
y Strategy: Context
deny, fulfill, gloated, Clues
y Selection Words:
flourish, vigorously, pedestrians, outskirts,
unbearable, rendezvous,
gleefully intercept, quarantine,
y Strategy: Word Parts: epidemic, plight
y Strategy: Thesaurus/
Base Words Dictionary: Synonyms
y Selection Words: y Selection Words:
flee, exterior, structures,
sheepishly, residents, exhaustion,
volunteered, perished,
coincidences, consumed
y Strategy: Context
sumptuous, sweeten, Clues: Within a
Paragraph
phase, devoted,

hobbled, prospered
y Strategy: Dictionary:

Idioms
y Selection Words:

bewildering, moderate,

hamper, prohibit,

accessible
y Strategy: Dictionary:

Homographs
y Selection Words:

participate, ordeals,

nourishing, encounter,

grimaced, dejectedly,

anticipated, victorious
y Strategy: Word Parts:

Latin Roots
y Selection Words:

instinctively, decrease,

swiveled, shakily,

dilapidated, auction,

decades, rafters
y Strategy: Thesaurus:

Antonym