Product Description

The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists offers content for literally hundreds of vocabulary improvement lessons for elementary and secondary teachers, self-improving adults, home schoolers, and students studying for their SATs. While there are dozens of shorter high interest lists of words, the core of the book is based on Latin and Greek roots and prefixes. But the largest list is Homophones. In fact it is one of the largest lists of homophones you will ever use. This list, like many others, is appropriate for spelling lessons or writer’s reference as well as vocabulary improvement. There are two dozen teaching methods in the Methods chapter and teaching suggestions to help improve reading and writing are scattered throughout the book. The lessons can be as short as a word-a-day or as long as a school year. The range of difficulty can go from upper elementary to college freshman classes, and be as diverse as adult education to English language learners.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152768 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780787971014
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Review
“Edward Fry has the uncanny as well as canny (choose your word) ability to take a complex concept—in this case vocabulary—and present it in a form useful to students and teachers.”
—Allen Berger, Heckert Professor of Reading and Writing, Miami University

“The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists will serve as an invaluable reference tool to any instructor involved in teaching English or designing project work. The content spans the grades from 4^th up to college and is characteristic of Edward Fry’s contribution to be both comprehensive and creative.”
—Pat Costigan, learning consultant, Bordentown Regional School District, New Jersey

“Teachers who want to mix test-prep with life-success-prep will welcome The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists as an easy-to-use resource for lively lessons. They’ll enjoy the wry humor of Dr. Edward Fry’s teaching suggestions as he marries word work to wordplay.”
—Lee Mountain, professor, curriculum and instruction, College of Education, University of Houston

From the Back Cover
The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists provides content for literally hundreds of vocabulary improvement lessons for use by elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers, self-improving adults, home schoolers, and students studying for the SATs and ACTs.

Replete with lists of words, books, teaching strategies, and many other useful tidbits of information related to language and literacy, this book picks up where Dr. Fry’s bestselling The Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists leaves off. Its primary focus is on vocabulary improvement for reading and writing. It contains a comprehensive section on roots and word origins; extensive lists of words used in science, psychology, and literature; along with an entire chapter on vocabulary teaching methods and options for curriculum content. Other chapters include spelling, homophones, exonyms, affixes, and specialized subject area terms. With a wide variety of levels and lengths, some lists may be appropriate for individual students as extra credit; other lists will help ESL students to master English, and yet other students will use these lists to prepare for college entrance exams.

Based upon extensive scholarship and comprehensive references, Dr. Fry’s The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists bridges popular notions of vocabulary building and word smithing with the more formal academic study of language syntax and lexicon. It is an indispensable resource for both teachers and parents aiming to improve their students’ vocabulary and literacy skills.

Praise for The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists

"Edward Fry has the uncanny ability to take a complex concept--in this case vocabulary--and present it in a form useful to students and teachers."
--Allen Berger, Heckert Professor of Reading and Writing, Miami University

"The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists will serve as an invaluable reference tool to any instructor involved in teaching English or designing project work. The content spans the grades from 4th up to college and is characteristic of Edward Fry’s contribution to be both comprehensive and creative."
--Pat Costigan, learning consultant, Bordentown Regional School District, New Jersey

"Teachers who want to mix test-prep with life-success-prep will welcome The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists as an easy-to-use resource for lively lessons. They’ll enjoy the wry humor of Dr. Edward Fry’s teaching suggestions as he marries word work to wordplay."
--Lee Mountain, professor, curriculum and instruction, College of Education, University of Houston

About the Author
Edward B. Fry, Ph.D. is professor emeritus of education at Rutgers University, where for twenty-four years, he was director of the Reading Center. Dr. Fry is known internationally for his Readability Graph, which is used by teachers, publishers, and others to judge the difficulty of books and other materials. Fry was elected to the Reading Hall of Fame in 1993. He is the author of the Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists, now in its fourth edition, from Jossey-Bass.

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for building vocabulary!
This is a comprehensive vocabulary book that covers interesting lists [capitonyms, SAT vocab, oxymorons etc], roots, word origins, subjects [scientific roots, emotions, sports etc], writing, foreign words [exonyms], spelling, abbr, phonics, measurement & geography, methods, affixes & roots, & homophones. I would recommend using this book together with the Writing Teacher's Book of Lists.

direction in the vocabulary classroom
I found this book to be very helpful. It gave me great lists of prefixes, suffixes, latin and greek roots, etc. It also separated these into subject areas. It is a very good reference tool and guide for me in the classroom.

great resource
This is a very complete resource. I use it for so many different lessons. Also The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists is fabulous! Highly reccomend it.