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Word Web Vocabulary meets and is correlated to standards in the 50 states.
Word Web Vocabulary Meets Your State’s Standards-based Requirements
Because Its Students Learn To:
- Use knowledge of Greek, Latin and Anglo-Saxon roots, prefixes and suffixes to understand:
- the relationship of words with common roots, prefixes or suffixes
- complex words
- the meaning of unknown words in science, mathematics and social studies;
- Recognize French, German and Spanish words that are based on the same Greek and Latin roots;
- Identify words that have similar meanings (synonyms) and words that have opposite meanings (antonyms);
- Use words from other languages that have been adopted into the English language;
- Understand idioms (cold turkey, elbow grease);
- Understand how our language grows through new pharmaceutical, household and industrial products and newly-coined words;
- Connect to the real world through auto names (Honda Odyssey), sports teams (Denver Nuggets), acronyms (SUNOCO, BLOG, NIMBY), architectural features, election terms (lame duck, grass roots)
- Follow teachers’ instruction and reinforcement of the following conventions in all their writing (as outlined in each teacher’s manual):
- sentences (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory and their respective end marks) that are complete, whether they are simple, complex or compound;
- punctuation: commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, semicolons, colons, hyphens, dashes, brackets;
- capitalization;
- nouns and pronouns in agreement;
- subjects and verbs in agreement;
- compound subjects, compound verbs
- possessive nouns and pronouns;
- irregular plural nouns: children, women, bacteria, media, data
- parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, interjections;
- past, present and future verb tenses of both regular and irregular verbs;
- clauses: introductory (non-dangling), dependent, independent phrases: prepositional, gerund, infinitive, participial;
- provides grade-appropriate spelling demons to teachers
- contributes to the overall literacy of students by providing Literary Links® and Featured Facts®;
- references what is considered to be general knowledge;
- encourages research through its Think Links® and Delve Deeper® features, allowing for classroom discussions and independent work to investigate a topic;
- Act on teacher reminders that help them to:
- Use revision strategies to improve the coherence of ideas, clarity of sentence structure and effectiveness of word choices;
- Edit to improve sentence fluency, grammar and usage;
- Evaluate the usefulness and credibility of data and sources;
- Organize information from various resources and select appropriate sources to support central ideas, concepts and themes;
- Communicate findings through oral, visual, writing or multimedia.
WORD WEB VOCABULARY IMPROVES PERFORMANCE IN EVERY CLASSROOM!
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