Words Are Wonderful, Book 3

Words Are Wonderful: An Interactive Approach to Vocabulary Book 3 builds student vocabulary skills through independent and collaborative exercises and activities on dictionary entries, word origins, context clues, similes and metaphors, idioms, compound words, onomatopoeia, alliteration, words with multiple meanings, synonyms and antonyms, prefixes, roots, suffixes, analogies, and footnotes.

The selections are drawn from science (microscopes and microorganisms, protozoa, the blue whale, Venus flytrap plants), historical reports on ancient Greece and the Great Wall of China, biographies of Langston Hughes, Mildred Benson, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, and Clara Barton, geography (Australia and the Great Barrier Reef) stories (folktale and legend), and poetry. This 24-lesson book is designed to meet state standards for vocabulary development. Every sixth lesson is a review.

The Words Are Wonderful vocabulary program provides lessons targeting each student’s instructional level, individual needs, and learning style with a wide range of exercises and activities.