Media and marketplace words
By: Joanne Suter
Series: Vocabulary in context; Vocabulary in context
Publisher: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic; Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Subjects: Textbooks for foreign speakers; Problems, exercises; Elementary education for adults; Vocabulary; English language
Other titles: Vocabulary
Description: [This book] was designed to enrich your personal "word bank" with many hundreds of high-frequency and challenging words.... [It] presents topic-related readings with key terms in context. Follow-up exercises provide a wide variety of practice activities to help you unlock the meanings of unfamiliar words. These strategies include the study of synonyms and antonyms; grammatical word forms; word roots, prefixes, and suffixes; connotations; and the efficient use of a dictionary and thesaurus. Thinking skills, such as drawing conclusions and completing analogies, are included as reinforcement. -Introd.
Notes: Originally published: Irvine, CA : Saddleback Pub., c2002.

"Print ads and TV commercials; electronic media; recognizing propaganda; consumer awareness"-Cover.

Distribution is restricted to RFB&D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability.

RL: 4. IL: 6-12.
Table of contents: title: Glossary; Advertisers take aims at heads and hearts; As safe as money in the bank!; Freedom of the press, the trial of John Peter Zenger; Read it and buy!; Letters to the editor; Vocabulary stretch; title: Glossary; Speed sells; Ernie Pyle, war correspondent; www.groceries.com; Give it a try!; Television, society's mirror; Vocabulary stretch; title: Glossary; Book and music clubs; Find it in the classified ads; Media stirs things up; Credit cards, protecting your plastic; Trademarks; Vocabulary stretch; title: Glossary; Attending an auction; News services; How to complain...and get results!; Consumer rights; Editorial cartoons; Vocabulary; title: End-of-book test; title: Word list.