Words are the tools of thought. Mindgle teaches students to encounter, explore, and own new vocabulary through repeated, meaningful exposure across rich text sets.
Research shows that students need to know approximately 95% of words in a text to understand it independently. Yet the vocabulary gap between low-income and high-income students can reach tens of thousands of words by the time they enter school.
Mindgle addresses this directly — every text set includes pre-teaching vocabulary sequences, in-context definitions, and post-reading word-work activities.
We use a three-tier vocabulary framework that identifies which words to teach explicitly, which to address briefly in context, and which students can infer on their own. Teachers receive guidance on all three tiers for every text.
Students need to encounter a word 10–15 times in varied contexts before they fully own it. Mindgle's text set sequencing is designed to deliver exactly that kind of purposeful repetition.
Tools and templates for vocabulary instruction.