This engaging vocabulary workbook for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders makes learning vocabulary skills fun!

Colorful, dynamic, and filled with engaging puzzle-format worksheets, McGraw Hill Vocabulary Grades 6-8, Third Edition provides a fun learning experience for your child to learn and practice the skills they need to do well in school and on standardized tests, or as an integral part of their homeschooling curriculum.

With more than 500 essential vocabulary words and 50 lessons, McGraw Hill Vocabulary Grades 6-8 features tools to help master different types of words (including easily confused words), guidance on learning prefixes, suffixes, and compound words, and easy ways for students to look up and check their progress. As they work through the book, students will sharpen both their vocabulary and many of the word skills they'll need to do well on current tests and later grades.

Features include:

• NEW! 5 additional lessons covering 50 additional vocabulary words
• Ideal for both supplemental classwork and homeschoolers
• More than 500 essential vocabulary words appropriate for students in grades 6 through 8
• 50 engaging lessons that will help your student learn both meaning and usage of words
• Vocabulary related to math, social studies, science, health and more
• A puzzle format that makes practicing vocabulary fun
• The tools to master synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and easily confused words
• Guidance on learning prefixes, suffixes, and compound words
• An alphabetical word list at the end of the book that makes looking up vocabulary easy

This engaging workbook will help your elementary school students build essential vocabulary skills


This book will strengthen the vocabulary of your third, fourth, or fifth grader. It will strengthen their vocabulary and encourage them to use their new word skills to excel in their classwork and on standardized tests. The book's lessons focus on a particular subject and include 10 or more vocabulary words related to that topic. Each vocabulary list includes definitions and example sentences. Fun, puzzle-format worksheets accompany each lesson and keep students motivated to learn. Here they can practice the vocabulary they find challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and develop their strengths.


With this book to guide them, students will learn how to:
- Apply vocabulary rules
- Understand meaning and usage
- Differentiate among synonyms, antonyms, homophones, prefixes, and suffixes
- Conquer compound words and easily confused words


Vocabulary Grades 3-5 includes:


- Vocabulary specific to the needs of students from grades 3-5
- More than 500 essential vocabulary words
- 45 lessons, each featuring a special topic, a vocabulary list of at least 10 words with definitions and example sentences, followed by vocabulary-building worksheets.
- An alphabetical word list at the end of the book makes looking up vocabulary easy
- An answer key for easy correcting

Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of writing

Understanding writing is essential for your child to write with competence and clarity. Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Writing gives your child bite-sized explanations of this essential skill, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the writing skills that are challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This title features 170 activities (plus answer key) that increase in difficulty as your child proceeds through the book.

This book is appropriate for a 4th grade student working above his or her grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 5th or 6th grader.

Your student will learn how to:

• Find and develop ideas for topics
• Create first drafts
• Develop sentences and use correct subject-verb agreement
• Revise and proofread her or his own work

Topics include: Finding and Developing Ideas for Writing, Discovering Ideas, The Value of Keeping a Journal, Focusing Ideas, Developing Ideas, Organizing Ideas, Writing the Draft Sentences: The Foundation of the Draft, Building Paragraphs Using Adjectives and Adverbs, Wisely Order and Sequence, Using Strong Verbs Point of View, Revision, What Is Revision?, Plan for Revision, Revision Peer Consultants, Proofreading, Proofreading Strategies, Proofreading and Computer Screens, The Value of Proofreading Partners

Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of grammar and vocabulary

Understanding grammar is essential for your child to speak and write with competence and clarity. Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar gives your child bite-sized explanations of grammar and vocabulary, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the grammar skills that are challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This title features 170 activities (plus answer key) that increase in difficulty as your child proceeds through the book.

This book is appropriate for a 6th grade student working above his or her grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 7th or 8th grader.

Your student will learn how to:

• Recognize types of sentences
• Understand sentence structure
• Identify parts of speech
• Use punctuation and capitalization together
• Find her or his own grammar mistakes

Topics include: Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections, Punctuation and Capitalization, Usage and Proofreading

Help your students develop their grammar skills

If you are looking for supplemental material for your grammar program or are in search of practical exercises that will boost your pupils' language confidence, this invaluable resource has it all!

Teach Terrific Grammar, Grades 6-8 features more than 160 self-correcting grammar lessons in a fun puzzle format--complete with answer key--versatile enough to be adapted to any existing program or approach. It also has thirty reproducible Tip Sheets to share with your students that review the parts of speech and other important grammar rules so they can learn how to:

• Recognize types of sentences
• Understand sentence structure
• Identify parts of speech
• Avoid fragments and run-ons
• Use punctuation and capitalization together
• Find grammar mistakes
• and much more

Soon your students will become masters at using language correctly and spotting grammar mistakes easily.

Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of multiplication and division

Understanding multiplying and dividing is essential for your child to do math problems with confidence. Practice Makes Perfect: Multiplication and Division gives your child bite-sized explanations of the subjects, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the problems they find challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This book features exercises that increase in difficulty as your child proceeds through it.

This book is appropriate for a 4th grade student working above his or her grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 5th or 6th grader.

Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of grammar and vocabulary

Understanding grammar is essential for your child to speak and write with competence and clarity. Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar gives your child bite-sized explanations of grammar and vocabulary, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the grammar skills that are challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This title features 170 activities (plus answer key) that increase in difficulty as your child proceeds through the book.

This book is appropriate for a 4th grade student working above his or her grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 5th or 6th grader.

Your student will learn how to:

• Recognize types of sentences
• Understand sentence structure
• Identify parts of speech
• Use punctuation and capitalization together
• Find her or his own grammar mistakes

Topics include: Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections, Punctuation and Capitalization, Usage and Proofreading

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