These cards reinforce, reteach, and review vocabulary. Synonyms, antoyms, definitions, related words, and word families support meaning. Photos support picturable vocabulary.
Franz Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man known only as K. and of his relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain entrance to the Castle. Although Kafka seemed to consider The Castle a failure, critics, in wrestling with its enigmatic meaning, have recognized it as one of the great novels of our century
How to Sound Clever: Master the 600 English Words You Pretend to Understand When You Don't
This book contains a collection of 600 words compiled by the author as words you hear all the time, read in newspapers and THINK you understand from the context, but you've probably never taken the time to look them up and learn their correct meaning.
Seeing, hearing, and writing vocabulary words in context is the proven method used in these books. Grades 10–12 texts contain a Word Analyzer with Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots that help determine the meaning of new words. In grades 7–9, spelling words illustrate the “Four Spelling Rules to Master” at the front of the book, and commonly misspelled words are also studied.
