Building Your Vocabulary

by Marvin Terban, Eric Brace (Illustrator)

BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY, the newest addition to the Scholastic Guide series, is an essential resource that provides children with skills they need in order to approach and learn new vocabulary words.

Using language arts standards from states around the nation as a guide, BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY familiarizes kids with word origins, word parts, context clues, synonyms and antonyms, and other critical skills. Rather than a book of vocabulary lists to memorize, this title gives kids tools they can use throughout their lives.
Kids will discover that English is made up of words from many different languages. They'll also find out about eponyms--people and places that become words.
Next students will discover the meanings of common prefixes, suffixes, and roots so that they can approach new words more confidently. There are also sections on homonyms, word families, shades of meaning, dictionaries, and thesauruses. All in a fun and entertaining format.

Genres: Nonfiction, Education, School

192 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2002

Reviews

[Leah Sidell]

This book called, Building Your Vocabulary had tons of information about words. It discusses where words come from, word families, the longest words in English, and much more. It also includes challenging vocabulary- building games and 100 great words to know. Their are so many ways to teach literacy using this book, students do an activity on synonyms and antonyms or homophones, homonyms, and homographs. Students can even take words out of this book and have a spelling test. This books is great, especially for elementary students because every time they res, speak, or write they need vocabulary words. The more their vocabulary grows, the more confident they feel about their school work and tests.

[Jo]

Crammed with info. and a nice size to hold(5"x7").

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