Author: Jack Umstatter
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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, ea

Author: Craig Conley
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: words, vowel, consonant, improbable, dictionary, wye
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-01-18
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1441455272
ISBN-13: 9781441455277

Wye’s Dictionary of Improbable Words brings together nearly 4,000 unusual and fascinating words that defy convention, offering a vast sampling of our living language at play. As our standard dictionaries scramble to catalog and thereby legitimize our growing vocabulary, Wye’s Dictionary offers the casual word gamer and language lover a cutting edge collection of new words. Examples of usage abound-as old as the Bible and as current as blog postings-grounding extraordinary terms in ordinary contexts. Myriad genres are represented, from literary classics to dramatic plays to whimsica

Authors:Hajdusiewicz, Babs Bell,
Publisher: Good Year Books
Keywords: words, teacher, resource, grades, beginning, reference, book, writers
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0673363198
ISBN-13: 9780673363190

Here’s a rhyming dictionary with a full complement of writing aids, 500 rhyming word families, word origins, misspelled and misused words, plurals, prefixes, suffixes, spelling advice, glossary, specialized indexes, and more! With over 7,000 words in all, it’s every young writer’s handbook for poetry or narrative, for home or school use. Grades 1-3.

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: Anderman
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: words, translation, topics
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1998-11-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1853593311
ISBN-13: 9781853593314

A collection of papers on vocabulary seen from a range of perspectives. This book aims to highlight some of the ways in which translation and language learning can be viewed as complementary in relation to the lexicon.

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 cele

Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: words
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-04-12
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0198614446
ISBN-13: 9780198614449

"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 ce