Threshold+Vocabulary


 * Threshold Vocabulary**

Threshold Vocabulary is a program offered by the Folsom Cordova Unified School District to EL students. By mastering a list of 1,000 key words – at 28 words a week – the program is designed to help English learners and children from limited-language homes build an academic vocabulary and catch up with native speakers. The 1,000 words used comprise at least 75 percent of any written material at any grade level.

The Sacramento Bee did a report on the program on November 17, 2008; to read the article click [|here].

The 2010-11 Threshold Vocabulary activies can be found here. **FYI:** In the cloze sentences, the words in **bold** with the pictures underneath are the Threshold words. Students can use them as context clues as they look for their own words to fill in the blanks.