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Word Within the Word, Vol 1 (Home School Parent Answer Manual)
Word Within the Word Vol 1 - Home School Parent Answer Manual Author:Michael Clay Thompson Excellent for preparing students for SAT’s and SSAT’s — Here is a vocabulary building curriculum like no other. It is a system which heavily uses etymology not memorization. Words are presented as a system of thinking, a way of building, analyzing, spelling, pronouncing, using and choosing words. The beauty of this ap... more »proach is that the student knows far more than the list of words encountered in this course; he or she knows the tens of thousands of words which are not listed, but which are expressions of the system.
This vocabulary study is intended as a weekly effort, built on a cumulative basis. Every test reinforces every list. Through constant review, ever increasing familiarity is built. This is a tremendously wonderful undertaking that combines learning and fun for the students.
There are 30 lessons covering 500 stems, both Greek and Latin, followed by 250 words made of those stems. (The term “stems” includes all word pieces: prefixes, suffixes, and roots.) Each lesson’s makeup includes: a Stems List; a Sentence Page which is designed to show how example words should be used; an Analogies Page which promotes thinking and prepares students for SSAT’s and SAT’s; Mystery Spelling and Mystery Questions pages designed to be enjoyable activities to show and to practice that it is not just the word one studies that one knows; a Notes Page or Stem Close-up Page that takes a closer look at the list of stems and highlights special points or adds information; an Ideas Page that expands the brain’s contact with the stems through activities of synthesis, divergence, analysis, evaluation, intuition, emotion and esthetics; an Inventions Page that gives the student the opportunity to create words just as scientists, writers and others do; and Flip Side Tests which give the definition and ask the term.« less