Words Are Wonderful

Book A ( Grade 2)

 

Words Are Wonderful: An Interactive Approach to Vocabulary, Book A, written by Myka-Lynne Sokoloff, builds students' vocabulary skills through independent and collaborative exercises and activities on plurals and other word endings, context clues, homophones, compound words, words with multiple meanings, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes and suffixes, dictionary and glossary use, and rhyming words. The richly illustrated passages are drawn from science (the life cycle of a butterfly and the water cycle); science fiction (robots); social studies and technology (how butter is made); biography (Native American potter Maria Martinez); and realistic fiction. Also included are a folktale ("The Little Red Hen") and a play ("The Three Wishes"). Each lesson features a Writer's Workshop with a graphic organizer to help students structure their ideas and plan their writing. This 12-lesson book is designed to meet state standards for vocabulary development. Every fourth lesson is a review. A separate reproducible test book is also available.

Skills Addressed:

• Analogies • Antonyms • Compound words • Context clues • Contractions • Dictionary and glossary use • Homophones • Inflected verb ending -ed • Irregular plural nouns • Multiple meaning words • Onomatopoeia

• Plural endings -s, -es, -ies • Prefixes un- and re- • Rhyming words • Science words • Social studies words • Suffixes: -er, -est, -ful, -ly • Synonyms • Test taking/Assessment • Words that describe feelings • Writing

 

The Words Are Wonderful Book A Teacher’s Edition, written by Myka-Lynne Sokoloff, wraps around the reduced and annotated student pages and provides extensive teaching suggestions that include opening instructions, and closing sections for each lesson. From a wide array of activities and exercises, teachers can choose those that work best for their students, including echo, whisper, and choral reading; word sorts; reader's theatre; interactive and independent writing; and syllable claps.

 

The Test Book, written by Myka-Lynne Sokoloff, will help teachers assess their students’ knowledge of the vocabulary words they have learned in Book 2 of Words Are Wonderful as well as their understanding of word elements and strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. At the same time, students practice multiple-choice test-taking formats that are widely used in mandatory state tests.

 

Each classroom set includes 25 Student Books, 1 Teacher's Edition, and 1 Test Book.