Vocabulary Growing Your Vocabulary

Grow vocabulary skills from the ground up.

Set your 4th, 5th, and 6th graders on the path to language mastery with the best program to improve vocabulary for upper elementary students—Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots.

This series organizes vocabulary words by Latin and Greek roots with similar meanings and explains how they’re used to make words. Once your students understand the basics of word construction, they’ll be prepared to tackle tougher words.

Each chapter is packed with exercises that help students use vocabulary in context, infer meaning from word roots, and define unfamiliar words with confidence.

The Teacher’s Edition for each level of the program lays out a five-day lesson plan for each chapter and gives you advice on helping English language learners and students working below grade level.

Introduce Dozens of Word Roots

• Engaging mnemonic cartoons and fascinating word notes make learning fun and unforgettable.
• Matching exercises reinforce word definitions through practice.
• Fill-in-the-blank activities build understanding of words in context.
• Multiple-choice questions get students to think about how the words work.
• Open-ended questions help students relate the words to their own lives.

Practice New Words in Varied Contexts

• Sentence completion questions help students showcase their vocabulary skills.
• Paragraph and dialogue completion activities encourage creativity.
• Word building activities let students play with roots and affixes.
• Crosswords and word searches are always popular with students.
• A variety of writing assignments give students hands-on practice using new words.