Words, Words, Words!: Ready-To-Use Games and Activities for Vocabulary Building, Grades 7-12 - Paperback

Words, Words, Words!: Ready-To-Use Games and Activities for Vocabulary Building, Grades 7-12 - Paperback

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Words, Words, Words!: Ready-To-Use Games and Activities for Vocabulary Building, Grades 7-12 - Paperback

Words, Words, Words!: Ready-To-Use Games and Activities for Vocabulary Building, Grades 7-12 - Paperback

$42.34
Sale price  $42.34 Regular price 

by Jack Umstatter (Author)

Words, Words, Words offers teachers a handy and much-needed resource filled with creative and engaging games and activities that will help students in grades 7-12 improve their vocabulary. The book features proven, practical, and accessible methods to encourage your students to increase their vocabularies and have fun while they are doing it. Words, Words, Words is divided into thirty thematic units each containing fifteen interrelated words. Each unit contains four different ready-to-use activities for each group of words. The book is designed to help students understand each word's meaning, associations, similarities, and differences and includes dynamic classroom-tested activities such as

  • Crossword puzzles
  • Matching columns
  • Magic squares
  • Jumbles
  • Word finds
  • Close reading
  • Multiple choice questions
  • Concealed quotations
  • Riddles

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Words, Words, Words offers teachers a handy and much-needed resource filled with creative and engaging games and activities that will help students in grades 7-12 improve their vocabulary. The book features proven, practical, and accessible methods to encourage your students to increase their vocabularies and have fun while they are doing it.

Words, Words, Words is divided into thirty thematic units each containing fifteen interrelated words. Each unit contains four different ready-to-use activities for each group of words. The book is designed to help students understand each word's meaning, associations, similarities, and differences and includes dynamic classroom-tested activities such as

  • Crossword puzzles
  • Matching columns
  • Magic squares
  • Jumbles
  • Word finds
  • Close reading
  • Multiple choice questions
  • Concealed quotations
  • Riddles

These activities are ideal for quick time-fillers, competitions, tests, quizzes, make-up quizzes, or extra credit assignments and can be used for individual, group, or entire class formats. In addition, a twenty-five question test is found after every group of three units that will inspire your students to become more motivated and excited about studying vocabulary. Words, Words, Words is an essential tool that can help your students learn how to increase their word power and reading skills.

Author Biography

Jack Umstatter, a master English teacher with more than 30 years' experience, is a multiple winner of the Teacher of the Year award. He currently teaches English and co-chairs the English department in the Cold Spring Harbor District in Long Island, New York. He is the author of numerous books including Hooked on English!, English Brainstormers!, Brain Games, and Grammar Grabbers from Jossey-Bass.

Number of Pages: 318
Dimensions: 1.14 x 10.9 x 8.46 IN
Publication Date: June 14, 2004

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