"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 words meaning,…mehr
"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 words 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
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.
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About the Author x About This Resource xi Unit 1 Places Word List 2 1-1. A Large City, a Dock, and More 4 1-2. The Letters C and R Stand for Themselves 5 1-3. Find the Three Words 6 1-4. A Colorful Matching Column 7 Unit 2 Beg, Borrow, and Steal Word List 10 2-1. Start with a Capital 12 2-2. Patriotism Is In! 13 2-3. Sliding Along 14 2-4. No Need to Beg, Borrow, or Steal 15 Unit 3 What's That You Say? Word List 18 3-1. Relating Them 20 3-2. Ego Man 21 3-3. Who Is Theodore Geisel? 22 3-4. Three-Letter Adjectives 23 3-5. Units 1-3 Crossword Puzzle Review 24 Review Test Units 1-3 25 Unit 4 Clean Your Room! Word List 28 4-1. Find the Proverb 30 4-2. There Once Was a Man . . . 31 4-3. Look for Those Second Letters 32 4-4. Two Words and Two Girls 33 Unit 5 How We Act Word List 36 5-1. Clumps of Letters 38 5-2. Why Start with Something Crude? 39 5-3. What Is an Amazon? 40 5-4. Music to Your Ears 41 Unit 6 Words from Mythology Word List 44 6-1. A Monstrous Affair to Say the Least 46 6-2. Headlines! 47 6-3. Five Will Get You Forty 48 6-4. Start with Zeus 49 Review Test Units 4-6 51 Unit 7 The Big and Small of It All Word List 54 7-1. Fifteen and Five 56 7-2. Floating Like a Butterfly 57 7-3. Spinning Around 58 7-4. Change a Letter (or Two) 59 Unit 8 Tell It Like It Is Word List 62 8-1. It's What They Said 65 8-2. You Only Hear Its First Letter 66 8-3. O! Those Prefixes Ending with O! 67 8-4. Under the Sea 68 Unit 9 The Sciences (Naturally!) Word List 70 9-1. Searching for Those Science Words 72 9-2. Let's Start with "No" for Some of These 73 9-3. Finding the Three-Letter Words 74 9-4. Figuring Out the Science Words 75 Review Test Units 7-9 77 Unit 10 Mathematically Inclined Word List 80 10-1. Just Do the Math 82 10-2. Overheard in Math Class 83 10-3. What Is It Called? 84 10-4. Famous Names in Mathematics 85 Unit 11 How We Move Word List 88 11-1. Just Move It! 91 11-2. How Would You Move If . . .? 92 11-3. Newspaper Captions 93 11-4. Don't Be Staggering Through This Puzzle! 94 Unit 12 Write On! Word List 96 12-1. I'd Like to Read 98 12-2. Legends Amongst Us 99 12-3. Literary Crossword 100 12-4. Really Researching 101 Review Test Units 10-12 103 Unit 13 Popular SAT Words Word List 106 13-1. Let's Go Fishing 108 13-2. The Fourth-of-July Special 109 13-3. To the Nth Degree 110 13-4. By a Nose 111 Unit 14 What We'd Like Said About Us Word List 114 14-1. End with James Bond 116 14-2. Don't Tell This to Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan! 117 14-3. Illustrative Examples 118 14-4. And Now for the One Noun Form 119 Unit 15 To a Degree Word List 122 15-1. Placing Them In 124 15-2. Where Did the Word Number Go? 125 15-3. Triple the Number 126 15-4. Hey! Some Letters Are Missing! 127 Review Test Units 13-15 129 Unit 16 All Types of People Word List 132 16-1. Who Said It? 134 16-2. All Sorts of People 135 16-3. Politically Speaking 136 16-4. Have You Seen the . . .? 137 Unit 17 An Interesting Combination of Words Word List 140 17-1. Coming or Going There Late 142 17-2. People Will Not Be Mad at Us This Time 143 17-3. Who Said What? 144 17-4. All Fifteen 145 Unit 18 All in the Family Word List 148 18-1. It's a Family Affair 150 18-2. Double-Letter Words 151 18-3. No Feuding Within the Family Here 152 18-4. Headlines 153 Review Test Units 16-18 155 Unit 19 Skilled-Or Not So Skilled Word List 158 19-1. Be an Exemplary Student 160 19-2. Positive and Negative Words 161 19-3. Which Does Not Belong-And Why? 162 19-4. Inventors and Inventions 163 Unit 20 Here, There, and Everywhere Word List 166 20-1. Your Mother Is What Kind of an Engineer? 168 20-2. Adverbs Galore! 169 20-3. Making Your Way Around Analogies 170 20-4. How Simple! 171 Unit 21 Smart-Or Not So Smart Word List 174 21-1. Do You Have the Smarts? 176 21-2. Do You Have the Skill? 177 21-3. Expanding Your Vocabulary 178 21-4. World Capitals 179 Review Test Units 19-21 181 Unit 22 A Bit Different Word List 184 22-1. A Traitor, a Criminal, and the Rest 186 22-2. Finding the Countries 187 22-3. People and What They Said 188 22-4. Where Did the Word Maestro Come From? 189 Unit 23 How (or Not How) to Say It Word List 192 23-1. It's Not That Greek to You! 195 23-2. U-R That Clever! 196 23-3. This Is So Easy! 197 23-4. A Very Silly Poem 198 Unit 24 Gone! Word List 200 24-1. Two at a Time 202 24-2. Water,Water Everywhere 203 24-3. "-Ury" Is In 204 24-4. Count on It to Be One of the First 205 Review Test Units 22-24 207 Unit 25 Age Word List 210 25-1. The Last Letters 212 25-2. Starting Fresh 213 25-3. One Hundred Years and Counting 214 25-4. Ponce de Leon's Search 215 Unit 26 Who Wants to Be Called That? Word List 218 26-1. All Types of Behaviors and Moods 220 26-2. Identifying the Person 221 26-3. Obstinate Is the Way to Go Here 222 26-4. Care to Do This Over Breakfast? 223 Unit 27 How Much-Or How Little Word List 226 27-1. We Want No Dearth of Correct Answers Here! 228 27-2. What Have You Wrought? 229 27-3. Large or Small or Just Enough? 230 27-4. Sounds Like . . . 231 Review Test Units 25-27 233 Unit 28 Social Studies Class Word List 236 28-1. Take One, Then Two, and Then #15 Does It Alone 238 28-2. Let's Call It a Tie-At Least in Points 239 28-3. Words Within Words 240 28-4. Do You Know Your U.S. Presidents? 241 Unit 29 Science Class Word List 244 29-1. Making Sense Out of Science 246 29-2. Science Words 247 29-3. The Dictionary to the Rescue? 248 29-4. The Parade of Scientists 249 Unit 30 All About the Senses Word List 252 30-1. A Crossword for the Senses 254 30-2. The Final Letters 255 30-3. Just Add Some Sweeteners 256 30-4. Sensing Your Capability 257 Review Test Units 28-30 259 List of Words by Unit 261 Words Included in This Book 269 Answer Key 273
About the Author x About This Resource xi Unit 1 Places Word List 2 1-1. A Large City, a Dock, and More 4 1-2. The Letters C and R Stand for Themselves 5 1-3. Find the Three Words 6 1-4. A Colorful Matching Column 7 Unit 2 Beg, Borrow, and Steal Word List 10 2-1. Start with a Capital 12 2-2. Patriotism Is In! 13 2-3. Sliding Along 14 2-4. No Need to Beg, Borrow, or Steal 15 Unit 3 What's That You Say? Word List 18 3-1. Relating Them 20 3-2. Ego Man 21 3-3. Who Is Theodore Geisel? 22 3-4. Three-Letter Adjectives 23 3-5. Units 1-3 Crossword Puzzle Review 24 Review Test Units 1-3 25 Unit 4 Clean Your Room! Word List 28 4-1. Find the Proverb 30 4-2. There Once Was a Man . . . 31 4-3. Look for Those Second Letters 32 4-4. Two Words and Two Girls 33 Unit 5 How We Act Word List 36 5-1. Clumps of Letters 38 5-2. Why Start with Something Crude? 39 5-3. What Is an Amazon? 40 5-4. Music to Your Ears 41 Unit 6 Words from Mythology Word List 44 6-1. A Monstrous Affair to Say the Least 46 6-2. Headlines! 47 6-3. Five Will Get You Forty 48 6-4. Start with Zeus 49 Review Test Units 4-6 51 Unit 7 The Big and Small of It All Word List 54 7-1. Fifteen and Five 56 7-2. Floating Like a Butterfly 57 7-3. Spinning Around 58 7-4. Change a Letter (or Two) 59 Unit 8 Tell It Like It Is Word List 62 8-1. It's What They Said 65 8-2. You Only Hear Its First Letter 66 8-3. O! Those Prefixes Ending with O! 67 8-4. Under the Sea 68 Unit 9 The Sciences (Naturally!) Word List 70 9-1. Searching for Those Science Words 72 9-2. Let's Start with "No" for Some of These 73 9-3. Finding the Three-Letter Words 74 9-4. Figuring Out the Science Words 75 Review Test Units 7-9 77 Unit 10 Mathematically Inclined Word List 80 10-1. Just Do the Math 82 10-2. Overheard in Math Class 83 10-3. What Is It Called? 84 10-4. Famous Names in Mathematics 85 Unit 11 How We Move Word List 88 11-1. Just Move It! 91 11-2. How Would You Move If . . .? 92 11-3. Newspaper Captions 93 11-4. Don't Be Staggering Through This Puzzle! 94 Unit 12 Write On! Word List 96 12-1. I'd Like to Read 98 12-2. Legends Amongst Us 99 12-3. Literary Crossword 100 12-4. Really Researching 101 Review Test Units 10-12 103 Unit 13 Popular SAT Words Word List 106 13-1. Let's Go Fishing 108 13-2. The Fourth-of-July Special 109 13-3. To the Nth Degree 110 13-4. By a Nose 111 Unit 14 What We'd Like Said About Us Word List 114 14-1. End with James Bond 116 14-2. Don't Tell This to Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan! 117 14-3. Illustrative Examples 118 14-4. And Now for the One Noun Form 119 Unit 15 To a Degree Word List 122 15-1. Placing Them In 124 15-2. Where Did the Word Number Go? 125 15-3. Triple the Number 126 15-4. Hey! Some Letters Are Missing! 127 Review Test Units 13-15 129 Unit 16 All Types of People Word List 132 16-1. Who Said It? 134 16-2. All Sorts of People 135 16-3. Politically Speaking 136 16-4. Have You Seen the . . .? 137 Unit 17 An Interesting Combination of Words Word List 140 17-1. Coming or Going There Late 142 17-2. People Will Not Be Mad at Us This Time 143 17-3. Who Said What? 144 17-4. All Fifteen 145 Unit 18 All in the Family Word List 148 18-1. It's a Family Affair 150 18-2. Double-Letter Words 151 18-3. No Feuding Within the Family Here 152 18-4. Headlines 153 Review Test Units 16-18 155 Unit 19 Skilled-Or Not So Skilled Word List 158 19-1. Be an Exemplary Student 160 19-2. Positive and Negative Words 161 19-3. Which Does Not Belong-And Why? 162 19-4. Inventors and Inventions 163 Unit 20 Here, There, and Everywhere Word List 166 20-1. Your Mother Is What Kind of an Engineer? 168 20-2. Adverbs Galore! 169 20-3. Making Your Way Around Analogies 170 20-4. How Simple! 171 Unit 21 Smart-Or Not So Smart Word List 174 21-1. Do You Have the Smarts? 176 21-2. Do You Have the Skill? 177 21-3. Expanding Your Vocabulary 178 21-4. World Capitals 179 Review Test Units 19-21 181 Unit 22 A Bit Different Word List 184 22-1. A Traitor, a Criminal, and the Rest 186 22-2. Finding the Countries 187 22-3. People and What They Said 188 22-4. Where Did the Word Maestro Come From? 189 Unit 23 How (or Not How) to Say It Word List 192 23-1. It's Not That Greek to You! 195 23-2. U-R That Clever! 196 23-3. This Is So Easy! 197 23-4. A Very Silly Poem 198 Unit 24 Gone! Word List 200 24-1. Two at a Time 202 24-2. Water,Water Everywhere 203 24-3. "-Ury" Is In 204 24-4. Count on It to Be One of the First 205 Review Test Units 22-24 207 Unit 25 Age Word List 210 25-1. The Last Letters 212 25-2. Starting Fresh 213 25-3. One Hundred Years and Counting 214 25-4. Ponce de Leon's Search 215 Unit 26 Who Wants to Be Called That? Word List 218 26-1. All Types of Behaviors and Moods 220 26-2. Identifying the Person 221 26-3. Obstinate Is the Way to Go Here 222 26-4. Care to Do This Over Breakfast? 223 Unit 27 How Much-Or How Little Word List 226 27-1. We Want No Dearth of Correct Answers Here! 228 27-2. What Have You Wrought? 229 27-3. Large or Small or Just Enough? 230 27-4. Sounds Like . . . 231 Review Test Units 25-27 233 Unit 28 Social Studies Class Word List 236 28-1. Take One, Then Two, and Then #15 Does It Alone 238 28-2. Let's Call It a Tie-At Least in Points 239 28-3. Words Within Words 240 28-4. Do You Know Your U.S. Presidents? 241 Unit 29 Science Class Word List 244 29-1. Making Sense Out of Science 246 29-2. Science Words 247 29-3. The Dictionary to the Rescue? 248 29-4. The Parade of Scientists 249 Unit 30 All About the Senses Word List 252 30-1. A Crossword for the Senses 254 30-2. The Final Letters 255 30-3. Just Add Some Sweeteners 256 30-4. Sensing Your Capability 257 Review Test Units 28-30 259 List of Words by Unit 261 Words Included in This Book 269 Answer Key 273
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"Offering practical and enjoyable activities, this book is anessential resource for any teacher concerned with enhancing his orher students' vocabulary." --Gary Muschla, author, The Writing Teacher's Book ofLists, Second Edition
"Words, Words, Words is a student and teacherfriendly book that incorporates key vocabulary skills in astructured, interesting format. Thematic units, helpful hints andenjoyable, motivational exercises make this a standout. Umstatter'slatest is a great vocabulary book with a sense ofhumor!" --Marylou McCullough, director of humanities, West Islip PublicSchool and former high school English teacher
"Jack Umstatter has created a book filled with meaningfullanguage arts activities. This book can be used as a foundation fora course, for spot lessons, or for remediation. These lessons willengage students and help make learning fun." --Tom Hall, high school principal, Harvard, Massachusetts
"Jack Umstatter's uniquely engaging word puzzles are notjust vocabulary-builders. They invite students to think seriouslyabout the shades of meaning that are so critical to readingcomprehension, critical analysis and self-expression." --John Tessitore, award-winning author for young adults, author ofMuhammad Ali: The World's Champion
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