How to Build a Super Vocabulary

How to Build a Super Vocabulary

Author: Book Builders

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-08-27

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0471680036

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Become a wordsmith in no time with this fun and easy guide! Your vocabulary is key to your success in school. From assigned essays to standardized tests, words help you share your thoughts and ideas clearly and correctly. How to Build a Super Vocabulary gives you the power to understand and use new words. You'll explore how words are put together, where they come from, basic spelling rules, and ways to avoid common blunders. Plus, you'll get to know 600 words that are often found on standardized tests. Filled with easy-to-follow advice, this hands-on guide includes 7 Keys to Success that will help you discover the meanings of unfamiliar words and put new words to good use in your speaking and writing: * Know the History of Language * Find the Roots * Use Context Clues * Use Your Tools * Tackle the Tough Ones * Build Your Vocabulary * Use the Best Words So get ready to expand your vocabulary-and develop savvy skills you'll use for the rest of your life!


Build Your Power Vocabulary

Build Your Power Vocabulary

Author: Random House

Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780375722745

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Build Your Power Vocabulary will help students, writers, professionals, and anyone else improve their vocabulary. It provides all the necessary tools to expand your knowledge of the English language and speak and write with an enhanced vocabulary. Build Your Power Vocabulary has been updated to include all vocabulary, slang and jargon relevant for 2008. Key Features: · Word roots, the history of interesting words, and up-to-date vocabulary · A thorough pronunciation guide with an extensive list of words that are often mispronounced · Sections on spelling and on the differences between American and British English · Information on how to use prefixes and suffixes to dramatically increase your vocabulary · An invaluable glossary of usage to ensure that you choose the right words and put them in their proper places · Vocabulary tests and exercises, as well as word puzzles


Building a Strong Vocabulary

Building a Strong Vocabulary

Author: Carl Bernard Smith

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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This book presents 12 strategies (focusing on one strategy a week) for students to increase vocabulary and boost communication skills, suggesting that these techniques can easily double the average person's vocabulary. After an introduction, the book presents the following 12 techniques: (1) "Expand on What You Know: Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homophones"; (2) "Build through Word Structure: Base Words and Prefixes"; (3) "Build through Word Endings: Base Words and Suffixes"; (4) "Find Related Words and Grow"; (5) "Gain Meaning from Context"; (6) "Say Exactly What You Mean"; (7) "Play the Analogies Game"; (8) "Create Word Maps and Word Webs"; (9) "Search for Treasure in Dictionaries and Thesauruses"; (10) "Learn More about Word Structure: Roots and Affixes"; "Discover Latin and Greek Word Families"; and (12) "Take a Foreign Tour: Words from Other Languages." An epilogue, "Keep Building Your Vocabulary: An Ongoing Process," is attached. (RS)


In Company 3.0 Upper Intermediate Level Student's Book Pack

In Company 3.0 Upper Intermediate Level Student's Book Pack

Author: Mark Powell

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780230455351

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A pack that contains the Student's Book and webcode access to online components. It allows students to practise language online and on the move and see their progress. It also gives access to additional material such as audio, video, answer key, glossary, phrase banks and worksheets.


Building Your Vocabulary

Building Your Vocabulary

Author: Marvin Terban

Publisher: Scholastic

Published: 2003-06-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780439285629

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Presents information on building vocabulary, including meanings of common prefixes and suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, how to use a dictionary and thesaurus, and how to use context clues to figure out meanings of words.


Vocabulary Instruction

Vocabulary Instruction

Author: Edward J. Kame'enui

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-05-10

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1462504000

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This highly regarded work brings together prominent authorities on vocabulary teaching and learning to provide a comprehensive yet concise guide to effective instruction. The book showcases practical ways to teach specific vocabulary words and word-learning strategies and create engaging, word-rich classrooms. Instructional activities and games for diverse learners are brought to life with detailed examples. Drawing on the most rigorous research available, the editors and contributors distill what PreK-8 teachers need to know and do to support all students' ongoing vocabulary growth and enjoyment of reading. New to This Edition*Reflects the latest research and instructional practices.*New section (five chapters) on pressing current issues in the field: assessment, authentic reading experiences, English language learners, uses of multimedia tools, and the vocabularies of narrative and informational texts.*Contributor panel expanded with additional leading researchers.


Improve Your Word Power

Improve Your Word Power

Author: Caroline Taggart

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1789291836

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Test your word power with this themed collection of multiple-choice vocabulary challenges.


Build Your Arabic Vocabulary

Build Your Arabic Vocabulary

Author: Haroon Shirwani

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2006-11-28

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0071478760

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Communicate in Arabic with confidence! To take your understanding of Arabic to the next level, you need to be equipped with a broad range of words and phrases. With its easy-to-follow guidelines for memorization, this book makes vocabulary building faster and easier than ever. In no time, your growing vocabulary will give you the confidence to communicate. Build Your Arabic Vocabulary gives you: Hundreds of bilingual flashcards to help you remember your new Arabic vocabulary Modern examples of how the language is used every day in the Middle East Engaging exercises and activities to reinforce what you have learned


Building Your Vocabulary

Building Your Vocabulary

Author: Peter Howard

Publisher: Pascal Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781741251630

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The Building Your Vocabulary Skills series is a three book set of wor kbooks to help children increase their vocabulary and become more confid ent in using new words correctly. Each book is divided into single-page activities with each page using a different strategy or theme to help yo ur child learn new words. This is the first of three books in the series and contains: over 60 pages of vocabulary exercises to help your child learn new words easy-to-follow tasks a wide range of activities covering different skills practis e in matching words to definitions, finding synonyms and antonyms and so rting words into groups a lift-out answer section This series of books are designed to help your child at home, which wil l in turn improve their confidence in reading, writing, spelling and com prehension exercises at school. It would be useful for children to have a quality dictionary at hand when doing these exercises. This can avoid guesswork if they are unsure of an answer. Theoretically, then, there wi ll be no errors for parents to correct, yet children will have still hav e added new words to their vocabularies.