Author: Jack Umstatter
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: words, building, grades, vocabulary, activities, ready, games
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-06-28
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0787971162
ISBN-13: 9780787971168
Proven, practical, and fun-filled methods for increasing students’ vocabulary This resource involves students in creative and engaging ways to improve their vocabulary. Divided into 30 thematic units, the book offers four different ready-to-use activities for each group of words, including crossword puzzles, magic squares, jumbles, word finds, concealed quotations, and riddles. Perfect as quick time-fillers, competitions, quizzes, extra-credit assignments, or SAT/ACT preparation, these activities can be used both with individual students or the entire class. Includes a time-saving, easy-
Author: Janet Alle
Publisher: Stenhouse Publisher
Keywords: words, grades, teaching, vocabulary
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $19.50
ISBN-10: 1571100857
ISBN-13: 9781571100856
Do you spend hours creating word lists and weekly vocabulary tests only to find that your students have "forgotten" the words by the following week? Janet Allen and her students were frustrated with the same problem. Words, Words, Words describes the research that changed the way she and many other teachers teach vocabulary. It offers educators practical, research-based solutions for helping students fall into new language, learn new words, and begin to use those words in their speaking and writing lives.This book offers teachers detailed strategy lessons in the following areas:activating and
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: words
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-08-06
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0199210772
ISBN-13: 9780199210770
"Lexicography is not just an exercise in linguistic accounting," writes preeminent English language scholar David Crystal in this exceptionally lively and erudite little book. "It is a voyage of lexical exploration and discovery." In Words, Words, Words, Crystal takes readers on a fascinating linguistic adventure, exploring the English language in all its oddity, complexity, and ever-changing beauty. Traveling from word origins and word evolution to wordgangs, wordrisks, wordplay, wordgames and beyond, Crystal shares his immense knowledge of, and equally immense delight in, language. He celebr
Author: George Barri
Publisher: Citadel
Keywords: words, life, marilyn, own, photographs, last, monroe, revealing
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0806524537
ISBN-13: 9780806524535
In 1962 until her death in August of the same year, George Barris worked with Marilyn Monroe on collecting information for a biography. After thirty years, the conversations and the photographs taken during the last months of her life are published for the first time.
Author: Editors of the American Heritage Dictionarie
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: words, misuses, everyone, confuses
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-09-10
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0618493336
ISBN-13: 9780618493333
The 100 Words series continues to set the standard for measuring and improving vocabulary, with a new title focusing on words that are best known for getting people into linguistic trouble. 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses is the perfect book for anyone seeking clear and sensible guidance on avoiding the recognized pitfalls of the English language.Each word on the list is accompanied by a concise and authoritative usage note based on the renowned usage program of the American Heritage Dictionaries. These notes discuss why a particular usage has been criticized and explain the ru
Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
Publisher: The Eighth Mountain Pre
Keywords: words, book, corner, poems, selected
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0933377290
ISBN-13: 9780933377295
A political, spiritual Palestinian-American from Texas, Naomi Nye illuminates some of the subtler aspects of human experience in this volume of poems drawn from three previous collections. She ponders everything from the donor of a now-broken music box to a little girl clenching her fist against death, using absolute clarity of imagery and a gentle, authoritative voice to make her visions accessible. She also poses such unanswerable questions as "What makes a man with a gun seem bigger/ than a man with almonds?" -- making it a thought-provoking read.
Author: Claudia Vurnakes
Publisher: Instructional Fair
Keywords: words, root, units, vocabulary, vine
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1999-01-29
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1568226616
ISBN-13: 9781568226613
Ancient Latin and Greek live on in the words we speak every day. Introduce your students to the fun and challenge of word genealogy with Words on the Vine, a 36-unit vocabulary program based on common Latin and Greek roots that will provide you witha framework for an entire school year. Each unit introduces ten related words and shows how their definitions can be traced back to a common meaning. Students first examine each word in context to understand its correct usage. Then theyhave the opportunity to put the words to work for themselves in creative and challenging assignments. Each unit pro
