How to Build a Strong Vocab! Magical Book (a to Z)


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How to Build a Strong Vocab?Magical Book ! ( A to Z )Why Is This Book So Magical?This book is really magical in building a strong vocabulary. It is not a hyperbole. Author has spent thousands of hours to write this book. Many times it has taken him hours together to visualize the suitable word or phrase to be connected with the word ready to go in your word power. This book has made it possible to increase your Word Power @ One Word per Minute. The method adopted here to learn the vocab words is so effective that it makes it possible to learn the word forever. Let us learn the magic of remembering the words permanently!Take the word Sine qua non. This word falls at a very high level of difficulty. Let us bring it down to level 0.Step-1: Write down the word. Word: Sine qua non (noun)Step-2: Know its pronunciation. si-ni-kwa-non Pronunciation: si-ni-kwa-nonStep-3: Find out its meaning.Meaning: something very essentialStep-4: Think of a similar sounding word or phrase.Similar sounding word or phrase: SIM in a mobile phoneStep-5: Connect SIM in a mobile phone with sine qua non.Think of a mobile phone without a SIM in it. Will it work? It will not work. It is very essential (sine qua non) to have a sim in a mobile phone. SIM in a mobile phone is sine qua non.Step-6: Prepare a workbook.Q) What is sine qua non in a mobile phone?A) SIM in a mobile phone is sine qua non.Fill in the blanks: What is .............................. in a mobile phone?.......................................... is sine qua non.Let us look at another word of very high difficulty level!Word: Gerrymander (verb)Pronunciation: jer-ri-man-derMeaning: to divide a voting area to gain an unfair advantageSimilar sounding phrase: great blunderConnect great blunder with gerrymander. The ruling party divided a voting area (gerrymander) on the racial basis for taking undue advantage during elections. Before elections, racial violence started. An emergency had to be imposed to deal with the situation.It was a great blunder to gerrymander the voting area. WorkbookQ) What was the great blunder?A) It was a great blunder to gerrymander the voting area. Fill in the blanks: What was the ...............?It was a great blunder to......................... the voting area. Lo and behold, the word is yours. How magical it is!There are hundreds of such words made super easy to learn. Author requests the respected readers to please post the impartial review which would be an invaluable feedback in improving the subsequent editions.The author wishes you all the best in your endeavour to have a great vocabulary.




The ABC's and All Their Tricks


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THE definitive phonics book for teachers. Comprehensive information is given here for every spelling of every sound. For each spelling you find rules which govern it, exceptions to the rules, sample words to use for teaching the sound or spelling, etymological information, and more. Each sound is keyed to the Phonics Made Plain cards and chart. The Appendix also contains an excellent article concerning reading problems of the older student or adult.




Instant Vocabulary


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LEARNING NEW WORDS IS AS EASY AS ONE, TWO, THREE! • RECOGNIZE the keys to the English language, the basic units from which all words are made • FOLLOW clear examples of how the key explains a word's origin and meaning -- or how it combines with other keys to create new words • BUILD your word power with practical exercises to expand and integrate your knowledge, without memorization Why enroll in an expensive course when everything you need to increase your vocabulary is at your fingertips? With this tested step-by-step method, you can instantly understand and retain thousands of words -- even words you have never seen before. By examining the building blocks of all words, a basic skill you already use every day without realizing it, you can unlock the meaning behind any word. A strong vocabulary is essential for academic and career success, greater self-confidence in speaking and writing, and improved reading comprehension. Master the secrets of increased word power with Instant Vocabulary!




Absurd Words


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Why use boring old words when you can expand and build your vocabulary—and have fun doing it! A user-friendly, engaging book about the power of words—perfect for educators, parents, and future word nerds. Build confidence and become a stronger reader, writer, and communicator! This fun and hilarious vocabulary builder: Includes over 750 high-level, wondrous, and wacky words! With sample sentences and word history that help new words make sense! Bright and fun illustrations make learning new words fun! Allows to search by category so new word choices are easy to find! Kids with strong vocabularies are better readers, better writers, and even feel more confident tackling math and science. When a kid wants to learn a new word, we often send them to the dictionary or a thesaurus. But dictionaries only work if you know exactly the word you want. This dictionary-thesaurus hybrid is organized by theme and puts words in context with fun, engaging and hilarious sentences, pictures, and fun facts. You'll learn what words mean and then actually use them!




Word Nerds


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Word mastery comes from intimate knowledge of language. In Word Nerds : Teaching All Students to Learn and Love Vocabulary, authors Leslie Montgomery and Margot Holmes Smith take you inside classrooms where they implement creative, flexible vocabulary instruction that improves their students' word knowledge and confidence. With support from literacy specialist Brenda Overturf, the authors developed a five-part plan to teach all students to learn vocabulary: Introducing new words in contextAdding related synonyms and antonymsEngaging in several days of active learningCelebrating new wordsAssessing vocabulary developmentThis easy-to-read reference explains how to plan, teach, and assess based on the latest research in vocabulary instruction and learning. After incorporating the authors' plan, you can be a Word Nerd too!




Vocabulary Pictured+


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This book takes some of the hardest words that appear in competitive exams like the SAT and GRE, and for each word provides a definition using plain and simple language; provides a picture that explains this definition and a way to remember the word and its definition; explains the usage of the word using some sample sentence; lists some synonyms, antonyms, related/additional words associated with this word.




Dr.J’s GRE Vocabulary


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Dr.J’s Guide to GRE Vocabulary is a profound attempt to provide students with novel, logically determined and easy techniques to ace the infinite and immensely complex GRE vocabulary. It is a one-of-its-kind book that clearly, deeply and precisely throws light on the frequently repeated words in the exam as well as the essential word cluster that every student needs to grasp to score well in the exam. GRE Verbal Reasoning is like Pandora’s Box; you never really know what all you will get. However, through years of research and teaching, the author has been able to simplify this intricate and challenging lexical resource in a student-friendly template. Word Trails Approach has been the brainchild of this book wherein seemingly complex and hard-to-remember words are finely weaved in a trail similar to how an exhausted trekker will find a new trail or path that can safely lead him to his destination. The standpoints of the Word Trails Approach are a complete coverage of syllabus in an extremely simple manner, a strong, logical and derivable tone and a brain-stimulating exercise for the students who can use this process to maintain their proficiency of vocabulary not only for the exam but also for a lifetime. The book also entails a concisely written A Week Before the Exam chapter and concludes with playful word puzzles that provide the audience with a tangible takeaway of the theory. In an extremely path-breaking manner, the book highlights the techniques that work and don’t and provides a solid framework for all type of candidates who want to succeed in this fierce examination pattern.




Vocabulary Instruction


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This highly regarded work brings together prominent authorities on vocabulary teaching and learning to provide a comprehensive yet concise guide to effective instruction. The book showcases practical ways to teach specific vocabulary words and word-learning strategies and create engaging, word-rich classrooms. Instructional activities and games for diverse learners are brought to life with detailed examples. Drawing on the most rigorous research available, the editors and contributors distill what PreK-8 teachers need to know and do to support all students' ongoing vocabulary growth and enjoyment of reading. New to This Edition*Reflects the latest research and instructional practices.*New section (five chapters) on pressing current issues in the field: assessment, authentic reading experiences, English language learners, uses of multimedia tools, and the vocabularies of narrative and informational texts.*Contributor panel expanded with additional leading researchers.




Out of Salem


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Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature A Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of 2019 The best Teen Zombie Werewolf Witchy Faerie fantasy murder mystery you've ever read—by debut author, Hal Schrieve. Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother's friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to "monsters," and Z and Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed. Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power as Z, Aysel, Tommy (suspected fey) and Elaine (also a werewolf), or a world that parallels our own so clearly and disturbingly.




Leveled Books (K-8)


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For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket.