Keys to a Powerful Vocabulary Level 2: Level II

The text is designed to help students in grades 10-12 develop a basic vocabulary necessary for the mastery of college textbooks and common reading material. It is carefully structured, and explores a variety of techniques for classroom or independent acquisition of vocabulary. Each chapter provides extensive practice with review words, new words and advanced words. Levels I & II are organized to be used individually, sequentially, or simultaneously. KEY TOPICS: interesting stories and sentences using newly- learned words in context; matching words with synonyms, antonyms, definitions, and etymologies; analogies; crossword puzzles; open-ended sentences for students to complete with new vocabulary; acrostics. Appropriate as a main text for vocabulary courses or as a supplementary text for English composition and reading classes.