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This Wiki is for teachers in Lewisville ISD who are doing the pilot program for //Vocabulary Their Way//. Each grade level has a page, and each page contains \ the units for the year. **These are very much a work in progress because you are creating the content.** The curriculum writers developed the initial lists, but those are just a starting place.Please feel free to edit, add, comment, etc. Look at the other grade levels to see if there are features there you'd like to see added to your grade level and add them.

Because it's a wiki, we can all easily contribute to create the content in one common place. What one of us knows, we all will know. It's so cool. And it can be done in as much time as you have to give. None of us has the stamina or time to do a whole year as a project with a due date. However, with a five minute visit, we can update a word, add a technique or strategy, an anecdote, etc. And the smartest person in the group, is the the group. All of us are smarter than any one of us. Our shared contribution will make this a great document. (And in the spring, we can clean it up and export it as the curriculum document!)

The program is based on the book //Vocabulary Their Way// by Shane Templeton. Templeton's //Words Their Way// is a part of the elementary curriculum and textbook and systematically introduces children to a generative approach to spelling and word study. //Vocabulary Their Way// builds on that approach for secondary students. This is the first time that we have had K-12 alignment for our vocabulary program, ending a series of patchwork approaches. The pilot program is voluntary, and anyone who either participated in the //Vocabulary Their Way// book study on the Ning last spring, or who has since read the book is welcome.

It will be helpful if you pick a different color text for your comments/additions. You can do this by selecting the T icon above when you are in edit mode (pencil icon above). You can only add/make changes when you are in edit mode. Please also identify yourself when making comments (RL, Ramona here, etc.)



Yes, that is Stephen King. I thought it fitting for our endeavor. 

6th grade: Tammy Metcalf metcalfc@lisd.net 7th grade: Damie Jones jonesd@lisd.net 8th grade: Rhoda Stelchek stelchekr@lisd.net English I: Jack Martin martinj@lisd.net English II: Lynn Knowles knowlesl@lisd.net English III & IV: Lou Ann Kemper kemperl@lisd.net Researcher: Ronica Hutson hutsonr@lisd.net
 * VTW Curriculum Writers Contact info:**

Project mama: Ramona Lowe lower@lisd.net Secondary ELA Supervisor: Donna Henry henryd@lisd.net