1. Product Purpose:
Having a challenge getting students to understand MAP and Common Core vocabulary? This game WILL help your students succeed! Words from the NWEA MAP site were placed in the specific RIT bands/Grade Levels associated with MAP.
This game is a great overview of all NWEA MAP vocabulary in the RIT band.
This product includes the “Student Self-Assessment” sheet where students can assess their learning with each word while they go on their adventure!
Other RIT bands’ “Student Self-Assessment” sheets are included because some games include preview words for the next RIT band.
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In this game you will go on a underwater adventure as they investigate underwater life while trying to learn the critical vocabulary found in NWEA MAP RIT and the Common Core. There are three games, with fifteen words in each games. This game can be paired with “NWEA MAP RIT Student Tracking” sheet to allow students to self-assess and the teacher to progress monitor. Student click on a underwater species and a question floats in on the screen. Their goal is to click on the correct answer! Students can click on the floating turtle in the “My Progress” section to go to the selection page.
ALL NEW STUDENT WORD TRACKING FEATURE!!
When a student click on a word, the word appears under the “my progress” section as either being correct, or incorrect. Knowing how critical it is to understand what students know, this new feature allows both the teacher and the student to progress monitor! When accompanied with “NWEA MAP RIT Student Tracking” sheet, both the teacher and student can set goals.
NWEA MAP RIT Student Tracking Sheet Now Included!
To unlock the treasure chest, students simply click on the cage and a difficult question appears. If they get the question correct, the cage moves up and off the screen, and the chest is left opening and closing. This adds more excitement to the game.
MATERIALS: *Computers and/or *Classroom computer and Interactive Whiteboard

3. UNDERWATER ADVENTURE Jelly Fish 1.87 and .23 Green 1.86 and 1.15
Red 5.58 and 1
UNDERWATER ADVENTURE
NWEA MAP/COMMON CORE VOCABULARY RIT
ADVENTURE 1:
Acronym
Alliteration Anecdote
Anthology
Argument Assumption Autobiography Bibliography Book Review Brochure Catalog Chronological Order Conclude Context
Dialogue
ADVENTURE 2:
Diary
Editorial
Evaluate
Exaggeration
Excerpt
Explain
Feeling
Field Guide
Figurative Language
Graph
Graphic Organizer
Homonym
Literary Device
Literary Elements
Map
ADVENTURE 3:
Memoirs
Middle Sound
Pamphlet
Personal Essay Problem/Solution Reference Material
Research
Review
Satire
Scene
Secondary Source
Sequence
Simile
Speech
Summary

4. The sailfish has been clocked at swimming over how many miles/hour?
Jelly Fish 1.87 and .23
Green .64 and 1.12
Red 6.65 and 1.45
A list of the books, magazines, articles, etc., that have been used for a report. This page comes at the end of the report. (Example: I need to tell where I got my information from I better include a …)
When you don’t get a word/phrase and use the sentences around it as clues to understand a word/phrase’s meaning. (I didn’t understand what the author meant by the phrase, so I had to read the sentences in front of it and behind it to figure it out.
Something that is believed to be true or probably true based on partial facts. (Example: “I saw you wink at the boy, you must like him.” “I don't like him, that's my brother.”)
A statement where someone uses evidence to fight against another opinion. (Example: Someone feels school uniforms are a good thing, while another disagrees)
When someone reads a book and explains if they like the book or not based on the story, the style the book was written, and the ending. (Example: I wrote a … to explain what I liked and did not like about the story)
A small, thin book or magazine that usually has many pictures and information about a product, a place, etc. (Example: A text showing what you can do at Yellowstone National Park, Disneyland)
The arrangement of things following one another in time. (Examples: The timeline of technology, important dates in your life)
The things that are said by the characters in a story, movie, play, etc. (Example: "What are you talking about," he asked.)
A book containing a list of things that you can buy, use, etc., and often pictures. (Examples: Automobile parts, Types of clothing)
A published collection of writings (such as poems or short stories) by different authors. (The girl enjoyed reading poems all about swimming)
To put information together and create a new idea. (Example: To finish, these are the reasons why I feel pizza should be served every day at lunch.)
A nonfiction book written about a person by that person. (Examples: Justin Bieber's "First Steps 2 Forever: My Story")
The use of words that begin with the same sound near one another (Examples: Wild and Woolly, Babbling Brook).
A combination of letters that represent a longer phrase. (Examples: FBI-Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA-United States of America).
A short story about an interesting or funny event in your life that you share with others. (Example: I remember one time that happened to me…)
My Progress
Conclude
Context
Dialogue
Catalog
Anthology
Conversation
Argument
Chronological
Order
Acronym
Bibliography
Autobiography
Brochure
Dialogue
Argument
Bibliography
Brochure
Anthology
Anecdote
Anecdote
Argument
Anthology
Alliteration
Assumption
Assumption
Acronym
Acronym
Book
Review
Alliteration
Acronym
Brochure
Context
Alliteration
Anecdote
Anthology
Argument
Assumption
Autobiography
Bibliography
Book Review
Brochure
Catalog
Chronological Order
The sailfish has been clocked at swimming over how many miles/hour?
Conclude 50 20
100 30
Context
Dialogue

5. Jelly Fish 1.87 and .23 Green .64 and 1.12 Red 6.65 and 1.45
A book that helps you to identify birds, plants, animals, rocks, etc. (Example: I looked at the … to try to find out what kind of bird was in my tree.)
The important parts of a story that authors include in order to create a great story. (Example: Exposition is important because it's the beginning of the story.)
To make (something) clear or easy to understand. (Example: I want to tell how to make a peanut-butter and pickle sandwich.)
A small part of a longer written work. A few sentences, or a paragraph out of a novel. (Example: I found a small paragraph, or … that had the main idea.)
Special phrases used by authors to make their writing more interesting (such as metaphors, similes, and hyperbole).
Drawing that uses a series of dots, lines, etc., to represent numbers and show how much or how quickly something changes. (I had to look at the … in order to figure out how much rain fell last month)
A word that is spelled and pronounced like another word but is different in meaning. (Examples: Bat you hit with/bat that flies in the air.)
A picture that shows the different location of places. (Example: We looked at a picture of Africa and saw the country South Africa.)
Helps students to visualize information so they can understand it better. (Example: We used a Venn diagram to figure out our thoughts on compare and contrast.)
To think of or describe something as larger as or greater than it really is. (Example: I have a mountain of homework to do tonight.)
Special wording techniques writers use to create text that is clear, interesting, and memorable (irony, flashback, foreshadowing, etc.)
An emotional state or reaction. (Example: I am so happy that I learned about the planets today!)
An opinion writing in a newspaper or magazine that gives the opinions of its editors or publishers. (Example: I feel that the taxes raised for the street on 23rd avenue has gone to waste...)
A book in which you write down your personal experiences and thoughts each day. (Example: Today was the craziest day ever because...)
To judge the value or condition of (someone or something) in a careful and thoughtful way. (Example: I don't think this source is very good because there are a lot of exaggerations.)
My Progress
Literary
Device
Literary
Elements
Map
Literary
Device
Graphic
Organizer
Homonym
Excerpt
Diary
Editorial
Exaggeration
Evaluate
Explain
Graph
Evaluate
Graphic
Organizer
Graphic
Organizer
Explain
Graphic
Organizer
Editorial
Feeling
Brochure
Explain
Field
Guide
Excerpt
Figurative Language
Diary
Field Guide
Evaluate
Explain
Feeling
Diagram
Editorial
Evaluate
Exaggeration
Excerpt
Explain
Feeling
Field Guide
Figurative Language
Graph
Graphic
Organizer
Homonym
A dolphin’s hearing is so good it can pick up sounds almost _______ miles away.
Literary Device 20 3 15
100
Literary
Elements
Map

6. Blue Whales weigh as much as how many Elephants?
Jelly Fish 1.87 and .23
Green .64 and 1.12
Red 6.65 and 1.45
An act of carefully looking at or examining the quality of something. (Example: I will … your paper and give you feedback.)
When someone is speaking in front of a group of people about their ideas, opinions, etc. (Example: It was my turn to stand in front of the class and share about my topic, so I had to give this...)
Books, encyclopedias, journals, etc. that help you find information. (I needed more information about Australia so I had to find some different texts, or ...)
A writing that looks at a topic and identifies an issue and then provides a way to fix the issue. (Example: The amount of oil being drilled in the ocean has become a big issue and ways to fix it are…)
A way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc. (Example: I enjoyed reading the … about lunch food).
A part of an act in a play where action takes place. Plays are divided into acts; and acts are divided into …... (In the play Purple People Eaters, the two people run from the monsters in this second...of Act 3)
The order in which things happen or should happen. (First this happened in the story. Then this happened.).
A brief statement that gives the most important information about a topic. (Example: I read an article about the Mayan Indians and my teacher wanted me to explain the main points in a...)
When you need more than the main source to get enough information for a report. (Example: I needed more information about the rain forest so I had to use an internet site as this...)
A writing where a person writes about their opinions and life. (Example: I wrote a story about what I did this summer on the first day of school)
A phrase that uses the words like or as to compare two totally different things, finding something they have in common. (The dog slammed into the house like a sledgehammer.)
Careful study that is done to find and report something new you learned about something. (Example: I wanted to know more about The Blue Whale, so I went and did some...)
Sound that occurs in the middle of a word. (Example: The word "found" has the "ou" sound.)
A written story where a person (such as a famous performer or politician) describes past life experiences. (Example: In class today we read a life experience that Ben Franklin wrote when he flew the kite.)
A small, thin book with no cover or only a paper cover that has information about a particular subject. (I looked in this type of text and found information about what to do if I am sick.)
My Progress
Simile
Speech
Simile
Personal
Essay
Alliteration
Sequence
Secondary
Source
Problem/
Solution
Memoirs
Scene
Personal
Essay
Research
Summary
Pamphlet
Personal
Essay
Research
Review
Headline
Pamphlet
Middle
Sound
Scene
Pamphlet
Metaphor
Satire
Research
Memoirs
Satire
Research
Reference
Material
Review
Simile
Middle Sound
Pamphlet
Personal Essay
Problem/Solution
Reference
Material
Research
Review
Satire
Scene
Secondary
Source
Sequence
Blue Whales weigh as much as how many Elephants?
Simile 3 30 7 12
Speech
Summary

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