by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Author)
Build your students' vocabulary skills with the Vocabulary in Context series of workbooks.
Each book in this series provides contextualized vocabulary practice designed to enhance students' vocabulary skills and to align with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts.
Each book includes the following:
- 10 high-interest reading passages covering a variety of topics
- vocabulary in context activities that test students' understanding of key vocabulary words from the passage
- word skills activities that introduce students to additional vocabulary words and vocabulary skills
- writing activities that encourage students to use the vocabulary words
- standardized-test practice
- helpful word lists, such as common prefixes and suffixes
- glossary
Some of the vocabulary skills taught in this series include the following:
- context clues - dictionary skills - content-area words
- cloze paragraphs - multiple-meaning words - word families
- antonyms - synonyms - classifying/categorizing
- analogies - and many more...