Prefixes and Suffixes: Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension (Grades 4-8)
By teaching students how to "dissect" words using the lessons in Prefixes and Suffixes, they will learn how to comprehend multisyllabic words, not just decode them. The activities in this resource incorporate all levels of literacy to maximize the transfer of vocabulary into students' speech, writing, and reading comprehension. Each of the 30 units in Prefixes and Suffixes includes a word list, vocabulary sort words, review game cards, and a vocabulary quiz. An answer key is included.
Drama for Students The purpose of Drama for Students (DfS) is to provide readers with a guide to understanding, enjoying, and studying dramas by giving them easy access to information about the work. Part of Gale's "For Students" literature line, DfS is specifically designed to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students and their teachers, as well as the interests of general readers and researchers considering specific plays.
More Greek and Latin Roots: Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension (Grades 4-8)
This book helps students learn to break down the parts of words they don't know in order to figure them out instead of just skipping over them. The activities in this book incorporate all levels of literacy so that students will be able to transfer the vocabulary they learn to their speech, writing, and reading comprehension. Each unit has two lessons, each of which takes a week. Each lesson has four activity pages for students: a take-home word list to study; a sets of hands-on vocabulary sort cards to match up for practice; a set of Read-Around-Review cards for small group review, and a brief quiz. Every two weeks there is a Review Test. Answers for exercises and tests are provided.
This cutting-edge multimedia series — now in its third edition and expanded — prepares students for the challenge of college lectures with a wide range of listening, speaking and note-taking strategies and skills. Targeting corpus-based vocabulary drawn from the Academic Word List, this content-based series ensures that students learn the vocabulary they are most likely to encounter in an academic setting.
'Writing Now' helps students connect the visually rich texts they read every day with strategies for college writing. Focusing on six real-world genres -- memoirs, profiles, reports, position papers, evaluations, and proposals -- students learn to read words, images, and design with a critical eye, decoding the writer's choices about audience and purpose.
