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 | Vocabulary Connections, Book 1- General Words, 1st Edition
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 | | Marianne C. Reynolds, MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLL
| | Softcover, 112 pages | | ©1998, ISBN-13 9780070526280 | | | Publisher's Retail Price:$37.00
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| | Bookstore's Wholesale Price:$27.75
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| | | Description |
This first book in a 3-volume series of vocabulary texts is designed to serve as a supplement to any developmental reading text or as a main text for vocabulary enrichment courses. The first eight chapters present high-frequency words, and the last two cover idioms. Each chapter offers a wealth of exercises and self-tests to improve general vocabulary and the use of idiomatic expressions. Students benefit by working through the entire series of texts, but each book can be used independently as well.
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 | About the Authors |
Marianne C. Reynolds has been coordinator of the reading program at Mercer County Community College for 17 years. She received her ED.D from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and is the author of Reading for Understanding and Reading Connections, as well as the Vocabulary Connections series. Her practical approach to challenging students with college-level material along with the necessary support continues to be very successful. Professor Reynolds has offered presentations demonstrating her strategies at the California Reading and Learning Association conference and the National Association of Developing Educators meeting.
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Book 1 focuses on general, high-frequency words and emphasizes learning vocabulary in context
Contains special chapters on idioms designed to help ESL students
Presents a wealth of exercises, self-tests, and answer keys that enable students to work independently
Offers group activities for those instructors who wish to foster collaborative learning
Each chapter lays out the objectives and methodology for students in an opening statement
Each chapter presents a short passage using all the words to be studied in the chapter (numbered and called out) in context
Each chapter includes a matching test in which students match the words in column A with the definitions in column B
Each chapter sets a sentence completion test requiring students to select the right words from a list to fill the blanks in a series of sentences
Each chapter features a complete word list giving the dictionary definitions and pronunciation for each word studied in the chapter
Each chapter offers a multiple meanings test where the different definitions featured in the word list are used as the basis for another sentence completion test
Each chapter provides a correct-use test in which the words from the word list are used correctly and incorrectly in a series of sentences—students must spot the erroneous usages
Each chapter ends with an exercise calling for students to write sentences using each word they have studied in a way that indicates their complete grasp of the word’s meaning
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