Words, Words, Words Ready-to-Use Games and Activities for Vocabulary Building, Grades 7-12

by Umstatter, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780787971168
• ISBN10: 0787971162
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-28
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Words, Words, Words offers teachers a handy and much-needed resource filled with creative and engaging games and activities that will help students in grades 7-12 improve their vocabulary. The book features proven, practical, and accessible methods to encourage your students to increase their vocabularies and have fun while they are doing it. Words, Words, Words is divided into thirty thematic units each containing fifteen interrelated words. Each unit contains four different ready-to-use activities for each group of words. The book is designed to help students understand each word's meaning, associations, similarities, and differences and includes dynamic classroom-tested activities such as Crossword puzzles Matching columns Magic squares Jumbles Word finds Close reading Multiple choice questions Concealed quotations Riddles

Author Biography

Jack Umstatter, a master English teacher with more than 30 years’ experience, is a multiple winner of the Teacher of the Year award. He currently teaches English and co-chairs the English department in the Cold Spring Harbor District in Long Island, New York. He is the author of numerous books including Hooked on English!, English Brainstormers!, Brain Games, and Grammar Grabbers from Jossey-Bass.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. x
About This Resource	p. xi
Places
Word List	p. 2
A Large City, a Dock, and More	p. 4
The Letters C and R Stand for Themselves	p. 5
Find the Three Words	p. 6
A Colorful Matching Column	p. 7
Beg, Borrow, and Steal
Word List	p. 10
Start with a Capital	p. 12
Patriotism Is In!	p. 13
Sliding Along	p. 14
No Need to Beg, Borrow, or Steal	p. 15
What's That You Say?
Word List	p. 18
Relating Them	p. 20
Ego Man	p. 21
Who Is Theodore Geisel?	p. 22
Three-Letter Adjectives	p. 23
Units 1-3 Crossword Puzzle Review	p. 24
Review Test Units 1-3	p. 25
Clean Your Room!
Word List	p. 28
Find the Proverb	p. 30
There Once Was a Man ...	p. 31
Look for Those Second Letters	p. 32
Two Words and Two Girls	p. 33
How We Act
Word List	p. 36
Clumps of Letters	p. 38
Why Start with Something Crude?	p. 39
What Is an Amazon?	p. 40
Music to Your Ears	p. 41
Words from Mythology
Word List	p. 44
A Monstrous Affair to Say the Least	p. 46
Headlines!	p. 47
Five Will Get You Forty	p. 48
Start with Zeus	p. 49
Review Test Units 4-6	p. 51
The Big and Small of It All
Word List	p. 54
Fifteen and Five	p. 56
Floating Like a Butterfly	p. 57
Spinning Around	p. 58
Change a Letter (or Two)	p. 59
Tell It Like It Is
Word List	p. 62
It's What They Said	p. 65
You Only Hear Its First Letter	p. 66
O! Those Prefixes Ending with O!	p. 67
Under the Sea	p. 68
The Sciences (Naturally!)
Word List	p. 70
Searching for Those Science Words	p. 72
Let's Start with "No" for Some of These	p. 73
Finding the Three-Letter Words	p. 74
Figuring Out the Science Words	p. 75
Review Test Units 7-9	p. 77
Mathematically Inclined
Word List	p. 80
Just Do the Math	p. 82
Overheard in Math Class	p. 83
What Is It Called?	p. 84
Famous Names in Mathematics	p. 85
How We Move
Word List	p. 88
Just Move It!	p. 91
How Would You Move If...?	p. 92
Newspaper Captions	p. 93
Don't Be Staggering Through This Puzzle!	p. 94
Write On!
Word List	p. 96
I'd Like to Read	p. 98
Legends Amongst Us	p. 99
Literary Crossword	p. 100
Really Researching	p. 101
Review Test Units 10-12	p. 103
Popular SAT Words
Word List	p. 106
Let's Go Fishing	p. 108
The Fourth-of-July Special	p. 109
To the Nth Degree	p. 110
By a Nose	p. 111
What We'd Like Said About Us
Word List	p. 114
End with James Bond	p. 116
Don't Tell This to Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan!	p. 117
Illustrative Examples	p. 118
And Now for the One Noun Form	p. 119
To a Degree
Word List	p. 122
Placing Them In	p. 124
Where Did the Word Number Go?	p. 125
Triple the Number	p. 126
Hey! Some Letters Are Missing!	p. 127
Review Test Units 13-15	p. 129
All Types of People
Word List	p. 132
Who Said It?	p. 134
All Sorts of People	p. 135
Politically Speaking	p. 136
Have You Seen the...?	p. 137
An Interesting Combination of Words
Word List	p. 140
Coming or Going There Late	p. 142
People Will Not Be Mad at Us This Time	p. 143
Who Said What?	p. 144
All Fifteen	p. 145
All in the Family
Word List	p. 148
It's a Family Affair	p. 150
Double-Letter Words	p. 151
No Feuding Within the Family Here	p. 152
Headlines	p. 153
Review Test Units 16-18	p. 155
Skilled--Or Not So Skilled
Word List	p. 158
Be an Exemplary Student	p. 160
Positive and Negative Words	p. 161
Which Does Not Belong--And Why?	p. 162
Inventors and Inventions	p. 163
Here, There, and Everywhere
Word List	p. 166
Your Mother Is What Kind of an Engineer?	p. 168
Adverbs Galore!	p. 169
Making Your Way Around Analogies	p. 170
How Simple!	p. 171
Smart--Or Not So Smart
Word List	p. 174
Do You Have the Smarts?	p. 176
Do You Have the Skill?	p. 177
Expanding Your Vocabulary	p. 178
World Capitals	p. 179
Review Test Units 19-21	p. 181
A Bit Different
Word List	p. 184
A Traitor, a Criminal, and the Rest	p. 186
Finding the Countries	p. 187
People and What They Said	p. 188
Where Did the Word Maestro Come From?	p. 189
How (or Not How) to Say It
Word List	p. 192
It's Not That Greek to You!	p. 195
U-R That Clever!	p. 196
This Is So Easy!	p. 197
A Very Silly Poem	p. 198
Gone!
Word List	p. 200
Two at a Time	p. 202
Water, Water Everywhere	p. 203
"-Ury" Is In	p. 204
Count on It to Be One of the First	p. 205
Review Test Units 22-24	p. 207
Age
Word List	p. 210
The Last Letters	p. 212
Starting Fresh	p. 213
One Hundred Years and Counting	p. 214
Ponce de Leon's Search	p. 215
Who Wants to Be Called That?
Word List	p. 218
All Types of Behaviors and Moods	p. 220
Identifying the Person	p. 221
Obstinate Is the Way to Go Here	p. 222
Care to Do This Over Breakfast?	p. 223
How Much--Or How Little
Word List	p. 226
We Want No Dearth of Correct Answers Here!	p. 228
What Have You Wrought?	p. 229
Large or Small or Just Enough?	p. 230
Sounds Like ...	p. 231
Review Test Units 25-27	p. 233
Social Studies Class
Word List	p. 236
Take One, Then Two, and Then #15 Does It Alone	p. 238
Let's Call It a Tie--At Least in Points	p. 239
Words Within Words	p. 240
Do You Know Your U.S. Presidents?	p. 241
Science Class
Word List	p. 244
Making Sense Out of Science	p. 246
Science Words	p. 247
The Dictionary to the Rescue?	p. 248
The Parade of Scientists	p. 249
All About the Senses
Word List	p. 252
A Crossword for the Senses	p. 254
The Final Letters	p. 255
Just Add Some Sweeteners	p. 256
Sensing Your Capability	p. 257
Review Test Units 28-30	p. 259
List of Words by Unit	p. 261
Words Included in This Book	p. 269
Answer Key	p. 273
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