Words, Words, Words!: Ready-To-Use Games and Activities for Vocabulary Building, Grades 7-12

by Jack Umstatter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787971162
• ISBN13: 9780787971168
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 10.9"
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Very Good

We have a 9th grader and a 6th grader. Over the years, we have purchased numerous academic study guides. Vocabulary is a dry topic for most people. We have many vocab books in the house. This is one of the very best. 2.5 years years ago, I bought this book for my daughter who was in 7th grade at the time. I just bought another copy of this book for my son who is in 6th grade. The title says 7-12 grade, but I think the book is appropriate for 6-9th graders who are strong students. The book contains 30 units, each chapter starts with a list of well chosen list of related words, and then the unit provides exercises to reinforce the unit's words. The activities include crosswrod puzzles,matching columns, jumbles, word finds, complete the sentence, etc. It is clear that the author put a great deal of thought into word selection and the activities. The activities force students to pick the most appropriate word in context, which is far better than dry memorization. We have many vocab books, most of them are boring. This book makes vocab about as fun as it is possible for vocab to be. Our kids almost like doing the exercises in this book.

Excellent Choice

I have a 6th grade daughter who I have been homeschooling this year. We have used this as our spelling and vocabulary text and it has been great. The units are manageable and she really liked the excerises that accompanied each unit. I hope there is a second edition, because I would use it.