In Pearson Reading Street, Amazing Words help close the language gap.

Students use Amazing Words to build their speaking vocabularies while deepening content knowledge in Social Studies and Science. All Amazing Words are tied closely to the unit concept, helping students make connections and increase retention of their new amazing words.

Examples of Amazing Words?

Grade K
Concept: How are flowers unique?
Amazing Words: bloom, buds, fruits, petals, seeds, stem

Grade 1
Concept: How do animal communities work together to survive?
Amazing Words: enemy, extinct, protect, crater, holler, swamp, bluff, boisterous

Grade 2
Concept: How can creative thinking solve a problem?
Amazing Words: boast, consume, contentment, cure, gloat incident, prey, shrewd

Grade 3
Concept: Why do people take risks to gain freedom
Amazing Words: blight, demonstration, equality, justice, mourn, perish, violence, wept, witty

Grade 4
Concept: How can attention to detail help solve a problem?
Amazing Words: disputes, damage, case, clues, solve, council, justice, investigate, evidence, suspect

Grade 5
Concept: How do animals adapt to survive?
Amazing Words: adaptations, predator, mimicry, camouflage, spiny, defenses, fearsome, survival, protrude, formidable

In Pearson Literature, Grades 6-8 Amazing Words help students explore Big Questions.

Amazing Words support the discussion of Big Questions—broad, open-ended questions that frame every unit. Related words – speaking and academic vocabulary – help students think and express themselves more precisely as grapple with ideas like, Does every conflict have a winner?

Examples of Amazing Words!

Grade 6
Question: How do we decide what is true?
Amazing Words: confirm, decision, determine, evidence, fact, fantasy, fiction, investigate, opinion, prove, realistic, study, test, true, unbelievable

Grade 7
Question: Does every conflict have a winner?
Amazing Words: attitude, challenge, communication, competition, compromise, conflict, danger, desire, disagreement, misunderstanding, obstacle, apposition, outcome, resolution, struggle, understanding

Grade 8
Question: How much information is enough?
Amazing Words: accumulate, challenge, decision, development, discrimination, explanation, exploration, factor, global, inequality, quality, quantity, reveal, statistics, valuable