Vocabutoons: Vocabulary Cartoons: Building an Educated Vocabulary with Visual Mnemonics

by Max Burchers, Bryan Burchers, Sam Burchers

Book Overview

Kids learned a word a minute in independent school test! 210 words every grammar school student should know, presented in an easy to read format with memory aids in the form of rhyming words and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965242293
• ISBN13: 9780965242295
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: New Monic Books
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource

This is a great vocabulary supplement for our home school, for several age groups. The kids hardly notice they are learning yet retain all the words, and they enjoy it, too.

highly recommend

I have looked many methods in memorizing words for my daughter, and only found that they are either useless or unsustainable. Even though we have learned the new words one day, we often forgot them the next. That is because we have not learned the best use of our mind for memorization. According to psychological principles, human memorize pictures much better than letters. The wonder of this book is to help you remember words in pictures through magic links (words you know). For example, the word Aspire is linked to an easier word Retire as they have similar pronunciation. Then a cartoon shows a funny guy Jim dreaming (aspire) about retiring on the beach... The mnemonic method makes better use of our mind strength; hence it is effective in learning new words. My daughter and I tried Word Smart series, too. This book definitely offers better methods. The cartoons make the whole learning experience fun. Since my daughter started using this book, her word learning interest is high. Much ahead of her grade level, she often gets on the honor roll in Beestar online word tests. I highly recommend this book.

Fun & Educational

I have been reading this book to our 9 & 6 year old and they love it. These are "big" words but the kids have fun with them because they enjoy the pictures and easy to understand definitions. The best part is they are retaining the meaning of the words. I highly recommend this book.

My sixth graders want more!

This book is a goldmine if you are trying to teach vocabularyto middle schoolers. I tried the first set of ten words with my students and when we were finished they asked, "When are we going to do more?" I purchased the matching blackline masters from the company and turned them into "mini-posters" which are hung around my room. Many students (even the ones I don't teach!) enter my room and ask, "When are you going to put up more? We know all of these!" Keep in mind that I had at least 50 on the wall when this was asked! But the true kicker is when a student viewed "The hamper scampered to the finish line" and said, "Wow, He's throwing out all his clothes!" A must-have for many laughs during learning!

STUDENTS LEARN A WORD A MINUTE

i have personally talked with other teachers who conducted research on the vocabulary cartoon books and the claims made by the authors are completely as represented. Memory aids of both visual and rhyming association mnemonics provide an entertaining and rapid way to learn and retain new words. If there is a better way to build vocabulary I have never found it in my eighteen years of teaching english. Samantha Ann Vogt