Description: Build life-long vocabulary skills with a semantic approach. Students get in-depth practice with word relationships in six essential skill areas. Each book in this best-selling set has: -clear, concise directions designed for students with limited language proficiency -vocabulary taken from graded vocabulary lists familiar to most students -a pretest/posttest -minimal demands for spelling and writing -appealing, one-page lessons with a variety of instruction formats Each book targets a specific social language skill. The books may be purchased as a 6-book set or individually. The 6-book set consists of: Spotlight on Vocabulary Level 1 Antonyms Students learn the relationship of words that have opposite meanings as they match pictures and words that have opposite meanings and identify and name antonyms. Spotlight on Vocabulary Level 1 Associations Students learn to recognize associations between words and to organize vocabulary by word associations. Activities teach them to make associations by color, shape, function, actions, category, synonyms, antonyms, and rhyme. Spotlight on Vocabulary Level 1 Attributes Matching, naming, and sorting activities teach students to use words to describe things in many different ways. Spotlight on Vocabulary Level 1 Categories Students learn the many ways items can be grouped and that one thing can belong to many different categories. Spotlight on Vocabulary Level 1 Concepts Students master concepts encountered in school: quantity, degree/intensity, numbers, time/sequence, addition/subtraction, calendar and dates, and space/direction. Spotlight on Vocabulary Level 1 Synonyms Teach students that synonyms are words that mean the same thing with shades of differences. They'll sort, match, and give appropriate synonyms for a variety of words.

Series: SPOTLIGHT

Publisher: Linguisystems

Format: SOFTCOVER/REPRODUCIBLE