Robust Academic Vocabulary Encounters (RAVE)

Robust Academic Vocabulary Encounters (RAVE) is an academic vocabulary intervention designed for sixth and seventh grade students. The program teaches general academic words from the Academic Word List through scripted daily lessons delivered in 10-20 minute sessions over approximately 22 weeks. RAVE provides instruction on 99 words in sixth grade and 96 words in seventh grade. Each word is introduced through two authentic contexts displaying multiple senses, a core-meaning definition, and prompts to integrate word meaning with context. Follow-up activities promote active processing through varied contexts, semantic feature analysis, rapid recognition tasks, and writing. The program includes morphology instruction focused on Latin roots, with lessons teaching 18 roots in sixth grade and 16 in seventh grade. Teachers receive notebooks with all scripted lessons and suggested language. Students receive notebooks with contexts, definitions, activity pages, and a glossary. The program was implemented by classroom reading teachers as part of their 90-minute (sixth grade) or 50-minute (seventh grade) reading/language arts block.