Vocabulary builder
By: Peter Fischer, editorial consultant
Series: Glencoe vocabulary builder series; Glencoe vocabulary builder series
Publisher: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic; Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Problems, exercises; Vocabulary
Description: [This book] uses [an] approach to building students' vocabulary by presenting words in to context or information about word parts to help students unlock word meanings independently, and by requiring students to apply their knowledge of new words in reading and writing exercises. [It] is designed for a specific reading level and features readings from the humanities, social studies, and sciences, vocabulary from Greek and Latin roots, assessment after each writiassignmentent, and a section on taking standardized tests! [It is also] a research-based program and is ideal for SAT/ACT preparation. -http://www.amazon.com
Notes: Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, c2005.

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

Grades 9-12.
Table of contents: title: Context clues, the humanities; title: Vocabulary of business; title: Prefixes para- and peri-; title: Context clues, social studies; title: Vocabulary of appearance; title: Roots -graph, scribe-, and -script-; title: Context clues, the sciences; title: Vocabulary of anger and violence; title: Number prefixes and roots; title: Context clues, the humanities; title: Vocabulary of quality and wroth; title: Prefix de-; title: Context clues, social studies; title: Confusing words; title: Adjective suffixes; title: Context clues, the sciences; title: vocabulary of literature; title: Noun suffixes; title: Context clues, the humanities; title: Vocabulary of thinking and learning; title: Roots -cede-, -cess-, -mit-, and -mis-; title: Context clues, social studies; title: Vocabulary of travel and movement; title: Roots -vert- and verse; title: Context clues, the sciences; title: Words from foreign languages; title: Prefixes im- and in-; title: Context clues, the humanities; title: Vocabulary of strengths and weaknesses; title: Related words; title: Context clues, social studies; title: vocabulary of speaking and writing; title: Prefix dis-; title: Context clues, the sciences; title: Vocabulary of smell and taste; title: Prefixes com, con-, and col-; title: Dictionary; title: Standardized test practice.