Junior skill builders
Subtitle: word power in 15 minutes a day.
Contributors: LearningExpress (Organization)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: LearningExpress
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Vocabulary -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Table of contents: title: Lesson 1: why work on your vocabulary?; title: Lesson 2: tools and techniques for learning new words; title: Lesson 3: use a word's context to figure out its meaning; title: Lesson 4: create meaning from connotations; title: Lesson 5: understanding word parts; title: Lesson 6: take words down to their roots; title: Lesson 7: mnemonics, or, codes to help you spell words!; title: Lesson 8: synonyms and antonyms: "similars" and opposites; title: Lesson 9: figure out which is the right word; title: Lesson 10: discover new nouns; title: Lesson 11: pick the best adjectives; title: Lesson 12: zip up verbs; title: Lesson 13: dress up verbs with adverbs; title: Lesson 14: words to describe personalities; title: Lesson 15: words to describe feelings; title: Lesson 16: words to describe extreme emotions; title: Lesson 17: strange feelings and emotions; title: Lesson 18: learn words for the sciences; title: Lesson 19: you may see the doctor now; title: Lesson 20: words about families; title: Lesson 21: mind your manners; title: Lesson 22: words from popular culture; title: Lesson 23: words from the sports arena; title: Lesson 24: words about politics; title: Lesson 25: words about computers; title: Lesson 26: words we've adopted; title: Lesson 27: words that really mean something else; title: Lesson 28: confused and abused words; title: Lesson 29: words about words; title: Lesson 30: words with extra power.