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“Words Are Wonderful offers the level of vocabulary intensity needed for long-term success. When we have such effective curriculum tools for the primary years, we will be in a much better position to prevent children from falling behind in vocabulary in the first place.”
Andrew Biemiller Professor, Institute of Child Study, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Ontario
(From the Foreword to the Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Guide)
“This program is very teachable. You have provided so many ideas in the teacher lessons section that you can find a way to teach the material that will reach the majority of students in your class.”
Heidi Sale AZ
“The author has done an outstanding job of revisiting previously learned vocabulary or skills. Both the activities in the lessons and the instructional and enrichment material in the Teacher’s Edition provide an impressive and creative array of suggestions for recycling and practicing words and topics presented in previous lessons. I find this to be one of the most compelling characteristics of this book.”
Joanna Kennedy MA

Words Are Wonderful

Vocabulary development through interactive, systematic word study
Grades 2–6

By: Dorothy Grant Hennings, Myka-Lynne Sokoloff

Student Books
Use Words Are Wonderful with an entire class, a small group, or one-on-one. The flexible format of each lesson allows teachers to differentiate vocabulary instruction by providing lessons targeting each student’s instructional level, individual needs, and learning style. The program includes:

  • a wide range of exercises to develop critical thinking and discussion skills
  • narrative and informational reading selections featuring new words in context
  • interactive exercises and activities
  • a comprehensive oral component
  • Strategy Center sections to help student apply skills
  • a Glossary with pronunciation keys, definitions, and sample sentences


Test Books

Presented in reproducible blackline master format, these tests are a valuable assessment resource, testing every word for a clear picture of student progress. Midterm and final assessments allow students to apply decoding and word analysis skills to new passages with new vocabulary words presented in context.

Teacher’s Editions
Wrap-around teaching plans, with annotated student pages, offer a wide choice of activities and suggestions for customizing each lesson. Lessons include a variety of activities connecting vocabulary development to reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Differentiated instruction tools in each lesson accommodate kinesthetic, verbal, and English language learners.



Skills Addressed

• Alliteration, analogies
• Antonyms, synonyms
• Compound words
• Comprehension
• Context clues, picture clues
• Critical thinking
• Dictionary and glossary use
• Editing sentences

• Homophones, idioms
• Multiple-meaning words
• Parts of speech
• Roots, prefixes, suffixes
• Test-taking/assessment
• Webbing
• Writing
• Word sorts


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82528-WX Words Are Wonderful Grade 2 Classroom Set
1–5 pricing: 305.15
6+ pricing: —

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2–2 305.15
2528-WX Words Are Wonderful, Book A
1–5 pricing: 16.55
6+ pricing: 11.60
Words Are Wonderful, Book A Words Are Wonderful: An Interactive Approach to Vocabulary, Book A, written by Myka-Lynne Sokoloff, builds students' vocabulary skills through independent and collaborative exercises and activities on plurals and other word endings, context clues, homophones, compound words, words with multiple meanings, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes and suffixes, dictionary and glossary use, and rhyming words. The richly illustrated passages are drawn from science (the life cycle of a butterfly and the water cycle); science fiction (robots); social studies and technology (how butter is made); biography (Native American potter Maria Martinez); and realistic fiction. Also included are a folktale ("The Little Red Hen") and a play ("The Three Wishes"). Each lesson features a Writer's Workshop with a graphic organizer to help students structure their ideas and plan their writing. This 12-lesson book is designed to meet state standards for vocabulary development. Every fourth lesson is a review. A separate reproducible test book is also available.

Skills Addressed
• Analogies
• Antonyms
• Compound words
• Context clues
• Contractions
• Dictionary and glossary use
• Homophones
• Inflected verb ending -ed
• Irregular plural nouns
• Multiple meaning words
• Onomatopoeia
• Plural endings -s, -es, -ies
• Prefixes un- and re-
• Rhyming words
• Science words
• Social studies words
• Suffixes: -er, -est, -ful, -ly
• Synonyms
• Test taking/Assessment
• Words that describe feelings
• Writing
2–2 16.55 11.60
2529-WX Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book A
1–5 pricing: 21.40
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book A The Words Are Wonderful Book A Teacher’s Edition, written by Myka-Lynne Sokoloff, wraps around the reduced and annotated student pages and provides extensive teaching suggestions that include opening instructions, and closing sections for each lesson. From a wide array of activities and exercises, teachers can choose those that work best for their students, including echo, whisper, and choral reading; word sorts; reader's theatre; interactive and independent writing; and syllable claps.

Features
• Reduced and annotated student pages
• Objectives for each lesson correlated with state standards
• Word lists, phrases, and word elements at the beginning of each lesson
• Book Spots with reading and resource suggestions on the lesson topics
• Enrichment activities in each lesson that extend students’ practice with vocabulary strategies and words
• Challenging activities in each lesson for students with varied needs, abilities, and learning styles, including verbally talented learners, visual learners, auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and ELL students
• Flexible scheduling options for teaching the lessons one, two, three, four, or five days a week.
• Page numbers always correspond to those in the student book
• Activities for assessment and review
2–2 21.40
2530-WX Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book A
1–5 pricing: 37.25
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book A

These tests, written by Myka-Lynne Sokoloff, will help teachers assess their students’ knowledge of the vocabulary words they have learned in Book 2 of Words Are Wonderful as well as their understanding of word elements and strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. At the same time, students practice multiple-choice test-taking formats that are widely used in mandatory state tests.



Features

• Assessment of every word in every lesson, including multiple meanings
• Gives clear picture of students' progress
• Formats most often used in state testing programs
• The final assessments features a new reading passage with lesson vocabulary words presented in a new context so that students can review some of the words, prefixes, and suffixes they have learned in Book A.
• Reproducible blackline master with answer keys is a valuable assessment resource

2–2 37.25
82531-WX Words Are Wonderful Grade 3 Classroom Set
1–5 pricing: 305.15
6+ pricing: —

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3–3 305.15
2531-WX Words Are Wonderful, Book 1
1–5 pricing: 16.55
6+ pricing: 11.60
Words Are Wonderful, Book 1 Words Are Wonderful: An Interactive Approach to Vocabulary, Book 1 introduces students to dictionary guide words and entries, homophones, compound words, words with multiple meanings, alliteration, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes, roots, suffixes, contractions, possessives, analogies, idioms, and inflectional verb endings. The selections are drawn from science, social studies (historical report and biography), stories (myth, fairy tale, folktale, and fable), and poetry, and include a first-person report, a sports report, a book report, and a journal entry. Every sixth lesson is a review.

Skills Addressed
• Alliteration
• Analogies
• Antonyms
• Compound words
• Context clues
• Contractions
• Dictionary use: guide words and entries
• Hierarchies and sets
• Homophones
• Homophones
• Idioms
• Picture clues and captions
• Prefixes: in-, un-, re-, out-, over-
• References: globes, almanacs, and atlases
• Roots: numbers (uni-, bi-, tri-, mono-, du-, dec-, cent-, and mill-); fort-
• Spelling: the letters qu-
• Suffixes: -er, -ful, -ion, -or, and -ly
• Synonyms
• Tables of data
• Test Taking/Assessment
• Verb Endings: -ed, -ing
• Visualizing words
• Webbing
• Words with multiple meanings
• Writing: interactive and independent
3–3 16.55 11.60
2534-WX Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 1
1–5 pricing: 21.40
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 1 The Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 1 wraps around the reduced and annotated student pages and provides extensive teaching suggestions that include opening, instructional, and closing measures for each lesson. From a wide array of activities and exercises, teachers can choose those that work best for their students, including word walls, word sorts, shared and choral reading, interactive and independent writing, syllable claps, and picture searches.

Features
• Reduced and annotated student pages
• Objectives for each lesson correlated with state standards
• Word lists, phrases, and word elements at the beginning of each lesson
• Book Spots with reading and resource suggestions on the lesson topics
• Enrichment activities in each lesson that extend students’ practice with vocabulary strategies and words
• Challenging activities in each lesson for students with varied needs, abilities, and learning styles, including verbally talented learners, visual learners, auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and ELS students
• Options for scheduling three-, four-, or five-day-a week vocabulary instruction
• Page numbers always correspond to those in the student book
• Activities for assessment and review
3–3 21.40
2537-WX Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book 1
1–5 pricing: 37.25
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book 1

These tests will help teachers assess their students’ knowledge of the vocabulary words they have learned in Book 1 of Words Are Wonderful as well as their understanding of word elements and strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. At the same time, students practice multiple-choice test-taking formats that are widely used in mandatory state tests.



Features

• Assessment of every word in every lesson, including multiple meanings
• Gives clear picture of students' progress
• Formats most often used in state testing programs
• Midterm and final assessments feature new reading passages with new vocabulary words in context; students apply word-decoding skills and roots, prefixes, and suffixes to new material.
• Reproducible blackline master with answer keys is a valuable assessment resource

3–3 37.25
82532-WX Words Are Wonderful Grade 4 Classroom Set
1–5 pricing: 305.15
6+ pricing: —

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Buy 25 student books and get the Teacher’s Edition, Answer Key and Test Book FREE!


4–4 305.15
2532-WX Words Are Wonderful, Book 2
1–5 pricing: 16.55
6+ pricing: 11.60
Words Are Wonderful, Book 2 Words Are Wonderful: An Interactive Approach to Vocabulary Book 2 builds students’ vocabulary skills through independent and collaborative exercises and activities on dictionary entries, context clues, portmanteaux, homophones, compound and hyphenated compound words, similes and metaphors, idioms, words with multiple meanings, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes, roots, suffixes, and analogies. The selections are drawn from science, social studies (historical report and biography), geography, stories (myth and fable), and poetry. This 24-lesson book is designed to meet state standards for vocabulary development. Every sixth lesson is a review. A separate, reproducible test book is also available.

Features

•  Reduced and annotated student pages
•  Objectives for each lesson correlated with state standards
•  Word lists, phrases, and word elements at the beginning of each lesson
•  Book Spots with reading and resource suggestions on the lesson topics
•  Enrichment activities in each lesson that extend students' practice with vocabulary strategies and words
•  Challenging activities in each lesson for students with varied needs, abilities, and learning styles, including verbally talented learners, visual learners, auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and ELS students
•  Options for scheduling three-, four-, or five-day-a week vocabulary instruction
•  Page numbers always correspond to those in the student book
•  Activities for assessment and review

4–4 16.55 11.60
2535-WX Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 2
1–5 pricing: 21.40
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 2

The Words Are Wonderful Book 2 Teacher's Edition wraps around the reduced and annotated student pages and provides extensive teaching suggestions that include opening, instructional, and closing measures for each lesson. From a wide array of activities and exercises, teachers can choose those that work best for their students, including word walls, word sorts, shared and choral reading, interactive and independent writing, syllable claps, and picture searches.

Features
• Reduced and annotated student pages
• Objectives for each lesson correlated with state standards
• Word lists, phrases, and word elements at the beginning of each lesson
• Book Spots with reading and resource suggestions on the lesson topics
• Enrichment activities in each lesson that extend students’ practice with vocabulary strategies and words
• Challenging activities in each lesson for students with varied needs, abilities, and learning styles, including verbally talented learners, visual learners, auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and ELS students
• Options for scheduling three-, four-, or five-day-a week vocabulary instruction
• Page numbers always correspond to those in the student book
• Activities for assessment and review
4–4 21.40
2538-WX Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book 2
1–5 pricing: 37.25
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book 2 These tests will help teachers assess their students' knowledge of the vocabulary words they have learned in Book 2 of Words Are Wonderful as well as their understanding of word elements and strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. At the same time, students practice multiple-choice test-taking formats that are widely used in mandatory state tests.

Features

• Assessment of every word in every lesson, including multiple meanings
• Gives clear picture of students' progress
• Formats most often used in state testing programs
• The final assessment presents new vocabulary words in context so that students can apply their word-decoding skills and the roots, prefixes, and suffixes they have learned in Book 2 to new material.
• Reproducible blackline master with answer keys is a valuable assessment resource

4–4 37.25
82533-WX Words Are Wonderful Grade 5 Classroom Set
1–5 pricing: 305.15
6+ pricing: —

SAVE with a Grade 5 Classroom Set 

Buy 25 student books and get the Teacher’s Edition, Answer Key and Test Book FREE!


5–5 305.15
2533-WX Words Are Wonderful, Book 3
1–5 pricing: 16.55
6+ pricing: 11.60
Words Are Wonderful, Book 3

Words Are Wonderful: An Interactive Approach to Vocabulary Book 3 builds students' vocabulary skills through independent and collaborative exercises and activities on dictionary entries, word origins, context clues, similes and metaphors, idioms, compound words, onomatopoeia, alliteration, words with multiple meanings, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes, roots, suffixes, analogies, and footnotes. The selections are drawn from science (microscopes and microorganisms, protozoa, the blue whale, Venus flytrap plants); historical reports on ancient Greece and the Great Wall of China; biographies of Langston Hughes, Mildred Benson, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, and Clara Barton; geography (Australia and the Great Barrier Reef; stories (folktale and legend); and poetry. This 24-lesson book is designed to meet state standards for vocabulary development. Every sixth lesson is a review. A separate, reproducible test book is also available.

Features
· Reduced and annotated student pages
· Objectives for each lesson correlated with state standards
· Word lists, phrases, and word elements at the beginning of each lesson
· Book Spots with reading and resource suggestions on the lesson topics
· Enrichment activities in each lesson that extend students' practice with vocabulary strategies and words
· Challenging activities in each lesson for students with varied needs, abilities, and learning styles, including verbally talented learners, visual learners, auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and ELS students
· Options for scheduling three-, four-, or five-day-a week vocabulary instruction
· Page numbers always correspond to those in the student book
· Activities for assessment and review

5–5 16.55 11.60
2536-WX Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 3
1–5 pricing: 21.40
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 3

The Words Are Wonderful Book 3 Teacher's Edition wraps around the reduced and annotated student pages and provides extensive teaching suggestions that include opening, instructional, and closing measures for each lesson. From a wide array of activities and exercises, teachers can choose those that work best for their students, including word walls, word sorts, shared and choral reading, interactive and independent writing, syllable claps, and picture searches.

Features
• Reduced and annotated student pages
• Objectives for each lesson correlated with state standards
• Word lists, phrases, and word elements at the beginning of each lesson
• Book Spots with reading and resource suggestions on the lesson topics
• Enrichment activities in each lesson that extend students’ practice with vocabulary strategies and words
• Challenging activities in each lesson for students with varied needs, abilities, and learning styles, including verbally talented learners, visual learners, auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and ELS students
• Options for scheduling three-, four-, or five-day-a week vocabulary instruction
• Page numbers always correspond to those in the student book
• Activities for assessment and review
5–5 21.40
2539-WX Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book 3
1–5 pricing: 37.25
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book 3 These tests will help teachers assess their students' knowledge of the vocabulary words they have learned in Book 3 of Words Are Wonderful as well as their understanding of word elements and strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. At the same time, students practice multiple-choice test-taking formats that are widely used in mandatory state tests.

Features

• Assessment of every word in every lesson, including multiple meanings
• Gives clear picture of students' progress
• Formats most often used in state testing programs
• Midterm and final assessments feature new reading passages and new vocabulary words in context so that students can apply their word-decoding skills and the roots, prefixes, and suffixes they have learned in Book 3 to new material.
• Reproducible blackline master with answer keys is a valuable assessment resource

5–5 37.25
82540-WX Words Are Wonderful Grade 6 Classroom Set
1–5 pricing: 305.15
6+ pricing: —

SAVE with a Grade 6 Classroom Set 

Buy 25 student books and get the Teacher’s Edition, Answer Key and Test Book FREE!


6–6 305.15
2540-WX Words Are Wonderful, Book 4
1–5 pricing: 16.55
6+ pricing: 11.60
Words Are Wonderful, Book 4 Words Are Wonderful: An Interactive Approach to Vocabulary Book 4 builds students' vocabulary skills through independent and collaborative exercises and activities on dictionary and glossary use, word origins, words from Spanish and French, context clues, homophones, idioms, compound words, shades of meaning, words with multiple meanings, formal and informal use of language, word connotations and denotations, literal and figurative meanings, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes, roots, suffixes, analogies, and footnotes. The selections are drawn from science and technology (dolphins, ice crystals and microphotography, pearls and oysters, and wireless communication); biographies (Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug, Mahatma Gandhi, elephant researcher Cynthia Moss, and Morris Frank, a leader of the seeing-eye dog movement); geography (Iceland and the American Southwest); history (the first trip through the Panama Canal, the Alaskan oil spill), and a West African trickster tale. This 24-lesson book is designed to meet state standards for vocabulary development. Every sixth lesson is a review. A separate, reproducible test book is also available.
6–6 16.55 11.60
2541-WX Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 4
1–5 pricing: 21.40
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Teacher’s Edition, Book 4

The Words Are Wonderful Book 4 Teacher's Edition wraps around the reduced and annotated student pages and provides extensive teaching suggestions that include opening, instructional, and closing measures for each lesson. From a wide array of activities and exercises, teachers can choose those that work best for their students, including word walls, word sorts, shared and choral reading, interactive and independent writing, syllable claps, and picture searches.

Features
• Reduced and annotated student pages
• Objectives for each lesson correlated with state standards
• Word lists, phrases, and word elements at the beginning of each lesson
• Book Spots with reading and resource suggestions on the lesson topics
• Enrichment activities in each lesson that extend students’ practice with vocabulary strategies and words
• Challenging activities in each lesson for students with varied needs, abilities, and learning styles, including verbally talented learners, visual learners, auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, and ELS students
• Options for scheduling three-, four-, or five-day-a week vocabulary instruction
• Page numbers always correspond to those in the student book
• Activities for assessment and review
6–6 21.40
2542-WX Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book 4
1–5 pricing: 37.25
6+ pricing: —
Words Are Wonderful Tests for Book 4 These tests will help teachers assess their students' knowledge of the vocabulary words they have learned in Book 4 of Words Are Wonderful as well as their understanding of word elements and strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. At the same time, students practice multiple-choice test-taking formats that are widely used in mandatory state tests.

Features

• Assessment of every word in every lesson, including multiple meanings
• Gives clear picture of students' progress
• Formats most often used in state testing programs
• Midterm and final assessments feature new reading passages and new vocabulary words in context so that students can apply their word-decoding skills and the roots, prefixes, and suffixes they have learned in Book 4 to new material.
• Reproducible blackline master with answer keys is a valuable assessment resource

6–6 37.25
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