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Description
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The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists is designed to focus on teaching particularly troublesome words, as well as involve students in the whimsical uses of language. It has a particular focus on homonyms, words that sound alike or are spelled alike but have different meanings. Never dry or dull, the book itself employs clever language usage. Homonyms are fun! They’re tools for creating jokes and puns, and Ed Fry provides a complete section on this type of wordplay.
Other sections cover easily confused words, prefixes, suffixes, spelling demons, word families, and roots. Additional topics include onset and rime (phonograms), morphemes (roots that transform in meaning), rules and generalizations, high frequency words, and common errors in meaning and spelling. The concluding chapter is packed with useful teaching suggestions.
This book is a basic resource with a variety of uses for teachers and students at many levels. As a handy reference, the lists will assist with differentiating the meaning or spelling of troublesome words. In addition to each defined homonym, a sample sentence is provided and the part of speech is indicated. For example:
The potter has a wheel (noun)
… to wheel around quickly (verb)
We’ll means “we will” (contraction)
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