The Vocabulary Teacher's Book of Lists

by Edward B. Fry

Book Overview

"Edward Fry has the uncanny as well as canny (choose your word) ability to take a complex concept?in this case vocabulary?and present it in a form useful to students and teachers."
Allen Berger, Heckert Professor of Reading and Writing, Miami University

"The Vocabulary Teacher's Book of Lists will serve as an invaluable reference tool to any instructor involved in teaching English or designing project work. The content spans the grades...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787971014
• ISBN13: 9780787971014
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

A very useful resource for teachers of all levels

This book provided me with so much information, most of which I found useful in planning and teaching a vocabulary improvement class in a community college. It has material that an English or reading teacher can use in elementary, middle or high school. I especially liked the mini-dictionary of roots, prefixes and suffixes, but I found that many of the lists were very helpful. If you teach English or Language Arts, this is a good reference book for both your classroom and for you own information.

Excellent Resource for ESL Adult Ed Instructors

My students, a class of 25 Korean students learning English after already having completed university degrees overseas, rate this product very high for its compact, precise presentation of information that is not often found in texts. Bravo!

Excellent resource for building vocabulary!

This is a comprehensive vocabulary book that covers interesting lists [capitonyms, SAT vocab, oxymorons etc], roots, word origins, subjects [scientific roots, emotions, sports etc], writing, foreign words [exonyms], spelling, abbr, phonics, measurement & geography, methods, affixes & roots, & homophones. I would recommend using this book together with the Writing Teacher's Book of Lists.

direction in the vocabulary classroom

I found this book to be very helpful. It gave me great lists of prefixes, suffixes, latin and greek roots, etc. It also separated these into subject areas. It is a very good reference tool and guide for me in the classroom.

great resource

This is a very complete resource. I use it for so many different lessons. Also The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists is fabulous! Highly reccomend it.