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All I have done is order the words so that teachers will have a representative list so they can share a common focus in their vocabulary planning. Such as Dolch Most Common Words, Academic Word Lists developed by Averil Coxhead, and populated by other frequency, literature and "highly likely" word groups collected from a number of They are instead a group of words that have been created using a number of resources Students should learn, nor are they calibrated in such as way as to be precisely focused at each month. These lists are by no means totally representative of all words The lists of words that follow are examples of types of tier 2 words that students may encounter in particular grade levels. Scaffolded (e.g., made a part of a glossary). Recognized as new and “hard” words for most readers (particularly student readers), they are often explicitly defined by the author of a text, repeatedly used, and otherwise heavily Because of their specificity and close ties to content knowledge, Tier Three words are far more common in informational texts than in literature. Understanding a new concept within a text. Tier Three words (what the Standards refer to as domain-specific words) are specific to a domain or field of study (lava, carburetor, legislature, circumference, aorta) and key to Because Tier Two words are found across many types of Tier Two words often represent subtle or precise ways to say relatively simple things-saunter instead of walk, for example. Texts (words such as relative, vary, formulate, specificity, and accumulate), technical texts (calibrate, itemize, periphery), and literary texts (misfortune, dignified, faltered, They appear in all sorts of texts: informational

Tier Two words (what the Standards refer to as general academic words) are far more likely to appear in written texts than in speech. While Tier One words are important, they are not the focus of this discussion. Speaker, though English language learners of any age will have to attend carefully to them. They are not considered a challenge to the average native Tier One words are the words of everyday speech usually learned in the early grades, albeit not at the same rate by all children.