Vocabulary Drills: Introductory

Vocabulary Drills helps students learn how to approach new words and to become more comfortable with the language―freeing them to explore new words and their meanings. Vocabulary study is contextualized with both narrative and expository passages. Additional structural analysis skills help students figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words in their own reading.

• Making connections helps students build personal word power
• New vocabulary words are connected by synonyms, antonyms, and analogies to words they may already know
• Latin and Greek roots expand students’ vocabularies exponentially
• Personal words help students build a useful bank of interesting words