Monday, October 13, 2014

The Weighty Word Book by Paul M. Levitt, Douglas A. Burger and Elissa S. Guralnick illustrated by Janet Stevens*

Twenty-six interesting, complex words are featured in this book.  Each word has a story to help explain what it means and also how to pronounce it.  The stories have puns and mnemonic devices in them.
Very fun!
Sampling of the words:
abasement, bifurcate, coruscate, ubiquitous

Also, the same team (different illustrator-Katherine Karcz) wrote a second book-Weighty Words, Too.
Sampling of the words from this book:
katzenjammer, surreptitious, tirade, zany

Great to use in classroom-"word a day".
Skills: vocabulary, word choice, word play
*Highly recommend.

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