Vocabulary Workshop: Level D

I am a big fan of these series as I used them myself for a couple of years as a teenager and wish I had used them throughout my highschool years. I greatly prefer them to the Wordly Wise and have recommended these as a teacher to parents for extensions in a school which does not do vocabulary soon enough. I plan to use these when I have my own children as I am planning to homeschool.

I've been homeschooling my 2 kids for the last 9 years and each and every year, I buy a Vocab Workshop book. We started when the kids were in elementary school and now my oldest graduated with a very extensive Vocabulary and my youngest (who is starting 10th grade) will be using yet another Vocab Workshop book, but this time Level D. Every week we start a new unit, and each day he only does 1 small lesson in that unit. Most Units have 5 days worth so if followed perfectly the child starts on Monday and finishes the unit on Friday, which is perfect for us.

As a test prep tutor who specializes in exams which test vocubulary knowledge - the SAT, SSAT, ISEE, SHSAT and others - I am always on the lookout for helpful vocabulary-building tools. This series, while not particularly exciting, is excellent; I use the full set. Students in lower grades can start from the lower levels and work their way up. Each word list is accompanied by a good variety of review and reinforcement drills: sentence completions, mix-n-match, passage readings, etc.Since this series is often used in schools, my luckier students get their test prep and school vocabulary homework done simultaneously!

These books are wonderful Vocabulary books but, it had too much writing inside to be useful.I bought this for my classroom.

I love the program that this book offers however it is difficult to get a teachers manual. I like this program because it covers vocabulary in 4+ ways: definition, antonym/synonyms, in story context and sentences. Plus the online activities are great to reinforces the meanings.