Product Description

Here is a highly effective and fun way for students to build their word power while they study in preparation for the SAT’s Critical Reading and Writing Skills sections. This learning tool is a set of flash cards—but flash cards with a difference! The front side of each card presents a humorous cartoon, a visual pun that relates to the headword at the card’s top. The pun supplies a clue to the word’s meaning, which is presented on the reverse side, with examples of the word used in sentences. For example, the headword hierarchy is printed above a cartoon showing Noah examining his work chart at his ark-building factory. His chart shows diagrams of higher arks at its top, medium-high arks in the center, at lower arks at its bottom. The caption reads: “A higher ark he built in the hierarchy of arks,” and the card’s reverse side gives students the meaning of hierarchy: “arrangement by rank or standing.” The boxed set contains a total of 200 vocabulary cards, each with its new word for test-takers to learn, its cartoon, and its pun.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49322 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Cards
• 200 pages

From the Back Cover
(box, back panel)
Picture These
SAT Words
in a Flash

200 flash cards • 200 funny cartoons

Here’s a set of flash cards with a difference! It’s an entertaining and effective way to build your word power while you prepare for the SAT’s Critical Reading and Writing Skills sections. Each card teaches a new word. It presents its headword with a cartoon and punning caption to serve as an amusing and valuable memory aid. The pun supplies a clue to the headword’s meaning, and you’ll find its definition on the card’s reverse side.

A new and entertaining way to build your vocabulary for the SAT

Customer Reviews

Disagree with approach
I disagree with this approach to learning vocabulary. The pictures have absolutely nothing to do with the language roots of each word. Yes, they serve as clever mnemonic crutches, but the end result is that the mind will forever carry around superfluous and inaccurate associations. I mean, really, asking you to think of someone "prodding a gull" to learn the meaning of "prodigal"?

I guess people are more interested in their SAT score than in learning for the long run. For short term gain, if skills with English mean nothing to you for the remainder of your life, these cards are novel.

great tool for SAT vocab prep
I use these with my high school AVID students to help them learn vocabulary for the SAT test. The pictures and examples really help them learn the words.

It makes the work easier
The pictures really helps, esp. if the person is young, I guess. Our daughter started "big" words very early -- she is nine. She loves these cards and remembers the vocabularies very well with their help.