The Building Your Vocabulary Skills series is a three book set of wor kbooks to help children increase their vocabulary and become more confid ent in using new words correctly. Each book is divided into single-page activities with each page using a different strategy or theme to help yo ur child learn new words. This is the first of three books in the series and contains: over 60 pages of vocabulary exercises to help your child learn new words easy-to-follow tasks a wide range of activities covering different skills practis e in matching words to definitions, finding synonyms and antonyms and so rting words into groups a lift-out answer section This series of books are designed to help your child at home, which wil l in turn improve their confidence in reading, writing, spelling and com prehension exercises at school. It would be useful for children to have a quality dictionary at hand when doing these exercises. This can avoid guesswork if they are unsure of an answer. Theoretically, then, there wi ll be no errors for parents to correct, yet children will have still hav e added new words to their vocabularies.

The Building Your Vocabulary Skills series is a three book set of wor kbooks to help children increase their vocabulary and become more confid ent in using new words correctly. Each book is divided into single-page activities with each page using a different strategy or theme to help yo ur child learn new words. This is the first of three books in the series and contains: over 60 pages of vocabulary exercises to help your child learn new words easy-to-follow tasks a wide range of activities covering different skills practis e in matching words to definitions, finding synonyms and antonyms and so rting words into groups a lift-out answer section This series of books are designed to help your child at home, which wil l in turn improve their confidence in reading, writing, spelling and com prehension exercises at school. It would be useful for children to have a quality dictionary at hand when doing these exercises. This can avoid guesswork if they are unsure of an answer. Theoretically, then, there wi ll be no errors for parents to correct, yet children will have still hav e added new words to their vocabularies.

In this third book in the series, Building Your Vocabulary Skills Yea rs 5-6, subjects such as place names, geography, weather, occupati ons, useful verbs and adjectives are covered. In the activities, children can practise a range of vocabulary skills, such as: matching words to definitions recognising synonyms and antony ms understanding idioms (non-literal sayings) expandin g their knowledge of verbs, adjectives and other parts of speech recognising homophones (words that sound the same but are spelt differ ently) As with all books in the Excel Basic Skill s series, the Building Your Vocabulary Skills books are designed to help your child at home, which will in turn improve their confidence in read ing, writing, spelling and comprehension exercises at school.

"Building vocabulary skills, short version," third edition, provides an answer to a problem that many students have: they simply don't know enough words. This book will help you truly master 200 important words. You will see and use these words in a number of different--and interesting--context. By working actively with the materials in this book, you are sure to expand your word base.

The revised edition of this vocabulary text continues to teach students to analyze, understand, and remember vocabulary by developing word attack strategies. New readings, collaborative exercises, and contextualized activities enhance the text.

This book presents 12 strategies (focusing on one strategy a week) for students to increase vocabulary and boost communication skills, suggesting that these techniques can easily double the average person's vocabulary. After an introduction, the book presents the following 12 techniques: (1) "Expand on What You Know: Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homophones"; (2) "Build through Word Structure: Base Words and Prefixes"; (3) "Build through Word Endings: Base Words and Suffixes"; (4) "Find Related Words and Grow"; (5) "Gain Meaning from Context"; (6) "Say Exactly What You Mean"; (7) "Play the Analogies Game"; (8) "Create Word Maps and Word Webs"; (9) "Search for Treasure in Dictionaries and Thesauruses"; (10) "Learn More about Word Structure: Roots and Affixes"; "Discover Latin and Greek Word Families"; and (12) "Take a Foreign Tour: Words from Other Languages." An epilogue, "Keep Building Your Vocabulary: An Ongoing Process," is attached. (RS)