Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Sadlier Oxford (2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0821580116
ISBN-13: 978-0821580110
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #11,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #16 in Books > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar > Vocabulary, Slang & Word Lists
As a foreign student who just started learning English 5 years ago, the verbal section is definitely my major obstacle to mastering the SAT. When I first took the PSAT, my verbal percentile was only a 49, but after working through all eight levels of Vocabulary Workshop (A through H) it has increased to a 99 (that was a year ago). Therefore I highly recommend this book to you (sincerely).This book is a highly successful tool for guiding and stimulating systematic vocabulary growth for students. It has also been extremely valuable for preparing students to take the types of standardized vocabulary tests commonly used to assess grade placement, competence for graduation, and/or college readiness.This book contains approximately 300 basic words, selected on the basis of currency in present-day usage, frequency on recognized vocabulary lists, applicability to standardized tests, and current grade-placement research.The words in the book are organized into 15 short, stimulating units featuring pronunciation, parts of speech, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and usage.5 reviews (1 review for every 3 lessons) highlight and reinforce the work of the units through challenging exercises involving SAT-type critical-thinking exercises, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, analogies, sentence completions, word families...4 accumulative reviews utilize standardized testing techniques to provide ongoing assessment of word mastery, all involving SAT-type critical-thinking.Other features in this book include: a diagnostic test (which provides ready assessment of student needs at the outset of the term), a final mastery test (which provides end-of-term assessment of student achievement), word roots (which introduces the study of etymology)...
I purchased this book for a class my son has this year. He has used this series for a number of years and has not complained about the format of them and has actually developed a good vocabulary as a result. I'm hoping this knowledge stays with him and will help him do well on SATs.
I have used Vocabulary Workshop in my homeschooling curriculum for several years. I like them because they really challenge your child and seriously increase their vocabulary. We are using the level F for 6th grade and my son is learning words like ameliorate and bombastic. He is writing a book for his composition curriculum and I love seeing his newly learned words incorporated into his work. I highly recommend this entire series.
As a test prep tutor who specializes in exams which test vocubulary knowledge - the SAT, SSAT, ISEE, SHSAT and others - I am always on the lookout for helpful vocabulary-building tools. This series, while not particularly exciting, is excellent; I use the full set. Students in lower grades can start from the lower levels and work their way up, while high school students generally find the highest levels helpful. Each word list is accompanied by a good variety of review and reinforcement drills: sentence completions, mix-n-match, passage readings, etc.Since this series is often used in schools, my luckier students get their test prep and school vocabulary homework done simultaneously!
My daughter is a sophomore in high school and uses this book all of the time for working on her vocabulary at home. It's the perfect size to lug around the house with her laptop and all of her textbooks and it has really helped with the vocabulary drills that she has to do each week.
This is a widely used series that facilitates building vocabulary in middle school and high school aged students. It has students use lists of 20 words per lesson in a variety of contexts that help the student to integrate the new words into their vocabularies.
These are now being used in public school systems at the high school levels honor classes. Very good product. Great value
I received this book a few days later than expected, and when i did receive it, the book had writing in it. Its not too bad and the book itself was in great condition, the only the was the writing and delivery time. It serves the purpose! i would order again from them.
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