How To Achieve Super Word Power


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The hallmarks of success have one thing in common: a super word power, a command over vocabulary that reflects clarity of thought and precision in spoken and written expression. The more words you master, the greater is your control over success. You are not apt to be confused by the jargon increasingly found in professional, academic and bureaucratic life. You are in a healthier position to understand and evaluate what you read and hear. You become more comfortable in meetings and find it easier to speak in public. You begin to communicate on a more satisfying and a deeper level. And that is a proof of success. This book is designed and programmed to put you a step ahead. By the time you finish the book, you would have learnt and acquired over 500 new words, more than an average adult acquires in several years, words that will put you ahead of others.




Super Word Power


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Super Word Power


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Fiske WordPower


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The Exclusive Method You Can Use to Learn—Not Just Memorize—Essential Words A powerful vocabulary expands your world of opportunity. Building your word power will help you write more effectively, communicate clearly, score higher on standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, or GRE, and be more confident and persuasive in everything you do. Using the exclusive Fiske method, you will not just memorize words, but truly learn their meanings and how to use them correctly. This knowledge will stay with you longer and be easier to recall—and it doesn't take any longer than less-effective memorization. How does it work? This book uses a simple three-part system: 1. Patterns: Words aren't arranged randomly or alphabetically, but in similar groups based on meaning and origin that make words easier to remember over time. 2. Deeper Meanings, More Examples: Full explanations—not just brief definitions—of what the words mean, plus multiple examples of the words in sentences. 3. Quick Activities: Frequent short quizzes help you test how much you've learned, while helping your brain internalize their meanings.




Word Power Made Easy


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Instant Word Power


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This rapid vocabulary builder created by Norman Lewis is a foolproof method of increasing your vocabulary. Learn the derivation and meaning of thousands of words!




Gaining Word Power


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Gaining Word Power helps college students build and retain better vocabularies and become more effective strategic readers. Based on more than thirty years of the author's teaching experience, this comprehensive vocabulary book generates a basic college-level vocabulary quickly, effectively, and pleasurably. It incorporates a number of proven vocabulary-building approaches that are grounded in sound learning theory. In each self-contained lesson, words are presented on graduated levels of difficulty, followed by challenging exercises and writing activities, then reinforced by immediate access to solutions. This enables students to progress at their own pace and evaluate their progress. Although this text has a distinct pedagogical structure, a variety of practices, crossword puzzles, writing exercises, analogy activities, and numerous cartoons throughout challenge students to learn using a variety of strategies while continuously emphasizing the reading-writing connection.




Word Power Made Easy


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Words, Words, Words


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Do you spend hours creating word lists and weekly vocabulary tests only to find that your students have forgotten the words by the following week? Janet Allen and her students were frustrated with the same problem. Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12' describes the research that changed the way she and many other teachers teach vocabulary. It offers educators practical, research-based solutions for helping students fall into new language, learn new words, and begin to use those words in their speaking and writing lives. This book offers teachers detailed strategy lessons in the following areas: Activating and building background word knowledge Making word learning meaningful and lasting Building concept knowledge Using word and structural analysis to create meaning Using context as a text support Making reading the heart of vocabulary instructionWords, Words, Words provides educators with a strong research base, detailed classroom-based lessons, and graphic organizers to support the strategy lessons. At a time when teachers are struggling to meet content standards in reading across the curriculum, this book offers some practical solutions for meeting those standards in ways that are meaningful and lasting.