| This popular series teaches 3,000 carefully selected words. Each 15-word lesson begins with an alphabetized word list providing pronunciations, parts of speech, and concise definitions. Each word is used in a strongly contextual example, with a mnemonic anchor. Exercises encourage students to apply word meanings, think critically, and discover word relationships. Narrative passages in each lesson allow students to experience words in context. Word histories and common verbal hidden hazards are provided. Crossword and hidden-word puzzles review words learned in previous lessons while making learning fun!
In Wordly Wise 3000 Book 5, each 15-word lesson begins with an alphabetized Word List that gives pronunciations, parts of speech, and concise definitions, and uses each word in a sentence. Some of the words taught in Book 5include strident, precarious, meticulous, congenial, bulwark, resilient, cursory, interminable, emulate, languish, and fastidious. Definitions are followed by exercises that distinguish usage, create sentences and phrases, identify synonyms and antonyms, and complete analogies.
Narrative topics in this book include: Maya Angelou, The Iceman, The History of Written Language, Korean Folk Tale, The Bounty, Women in Space, The Pitcairn Island, Rigoberta Menchu (Nobel Peace Prize winner), Kachina Dolls, Hearst Castle, The Miss America Pageant, Leonardo Da Vinci, Wolves, Rabbi Rabinowicz, Central America, Prairie Women, Holland, and Paul Robeson.
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