Words Are Wonderful

Book 4 (Grade 6)

 

Words Are Wonderful: An Interactive Approach to Vocabulary Book 4 builds students' vocabulary skills through independent and collaborative exercises and activities on dictionary and glossary use, word origins, words from Spanish and French, context clues, homophones, idioms, compound words, shades of meaning, words with multiple meanings, formal and informal use of language, word connotations and denotations, literal and figurative meanings, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes, roots, suffixes, analogies, and footnotes. The selections are drawn from science and technology (dolphins, ice crystals and microphotography, pearls and oysters, and wireless communication); biographies (Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug, Mahatma Gandhi, elephant researcher Cynthia Moss, and Morris Frank, a leader of the seeing-eye dog movement); geography (Iceland and the American Southwest); history (the first trip through the Panama Canal, the Alaskan oil spill), and a West African trickster tale. This 24-lesson book is designed to meet state standards for vocabulary development. Every sixth lesson is a review. A separate, reproducible test book is also available.

 

The Words Are Wonderful Book 4 Teacher's Edition wraps around the reduced and annotated student pages and provides extensive teaching suggestions that include opening, instructional, and closing measures for each lesson. From a wide array of activities and exercises, teachers can choose those that work best for their students, including word walls, word sorts, shared and choral reading, interactive and independent writing, syllable claps, and picture searches.

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Features:

• Reduced and annotated student pages • Objectives for each lesson correlated with state standards • Word lists, phrases, and word elements at the beginning of each lesson • Book Spots with reading and resource suggestions on the lesson topics • Enrichment activities in each lesson that extend students’ practice with vocabulary strategies and words

• Challenging activities in each lesson for students with varied needs, abilities, and learning styles, including verbally talented learners, visual learners, auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and ELS students • Options for scheduling three-, four-, or five-day-a week vocabulary instruction • Page numbers always correspond to those in the student book • Activities for assessment and review

 

The test book will help teachers assess their students' knowledge of the vocabulary words they have learned in Book 4 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.