Muschla - Practice Makes Perfect Exploring Vocabulary

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It is through words that we share ideas and learn new things. Your understanding and use of wordsyour vocabularyrelate directly to learning. Students who have rich vocabularies usually do better in school than students whose vocabularies are poor. The lessons in this book provide more than 450 words that are found in fourth- and fifth-grade curriculums. The definitions of these words include more words that can expand your vocabulary even further. Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Vocabulary can be a helpful resource for learning the meanings and uses of words. Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Vocabulary can be a helpful resource for learning the meanings and uses of words.

It can be used by both students and teachers. Students (working alone or with their parents) can complete the lessons, while teachers will find the materials of the book useful for classroom instruction. Having a broad vocabulary is a key to being successful in school and beyond. It is my hope that this book will make your study of vocabulary an enjoyable experience.

Each includes a list of words and three practice worksheets. An alphabetical list of the words in the lessons and an answer key for the worksheets conclude the book. The first two pages of each lesson present words you should know. Most lessons present 10 words, but a few present more. For most lessons, words are shown with their part of speech, definition, and a sample sentence. A Vocabulary Tip is also included.

You should study the list of words and their definitions for each lesson before trying to do the worksheets. If any words in the definitions are new to you, use your dictionary to check the meanings of those new words. Learning these words, along with the words presented in the lesson, will expand your vocabulary greatly. The worksheets are designed to make learning vocabulary easy and fun. Each worksheet begins with a question that you can answer by completing the worksheet correctly. Try to complete the worksheets without looking back at the definitions of the list words.

Look back only if you need help. Completing the worksheets in this book will help you to build your vocabulary. But there are many other ways you can learn new words and their meanings: Read. Reading builds vocabulary. Read different kinds of selections: novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and magazines. Make reading a habit.

Use context clues to find the meanings of new words. You can often figure out the meaning of a word by the way it is used in a sentence. Look for clues in the following: Examples that give the meaning of a new word Familiar words and phrases that hint at the meaning of a new word Phrases after new words that contain their definitions Synonyms and antonyms that help you understand the meaning of new words When necessary, use a dictionary to find the meanings of new words. When you learn a new word, note if it has multiple meanings. Many words do. Try to learn the different meanings of new words.

Learn the meanings of prefixes and suffixes. Prefixes and suffixes alter the meanings of words. Use your understanding of prefixes and suffixes to help you understand the meanings of the words to which they are attached. When you learn a new word, repeat it and its meaning silently to yourself. Think of how the word is related to other words. This will help you to remember it.