m0mmaBuck Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I have a 5th grader who needs to expand his vocabulary. Any suggestions for a workbook or curriculum that would be beneficial? We currently use the Story of Western Civilization worktexts in combination with our Story of the World history and this seems to be helping but he needs more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 If you want a workbook that can be done indepedently, Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop. If you don't mind a teacher-intensive program, Michael Clay Thompson (MCT) Caesar's English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeteranMom Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Wordly Wise 3000 grade 5 might be helpful. It's pretty thorough and my kids have used WW for 3 years. They sell it at www.cbd.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Wordly Wise 3000 grade 5 might be helpful. It's pretty thorough and my kids have used WW for 3 years. They sell it at www.cbd.com Seconding this one! Great workbook program, free reinforcement activities for every level/lesson here. Plus you can buy the answer keys to WW without the hassle of "proving" that you're a homeschooler (unlike Sadlier-Oxford). (No HS requirements in my state, so I have no way of proving.) WW is often cheaper on Amazon than other sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 My DD loves Vocabulary cartoons! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyful_Journey Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 My kids are using Sadlier Oxford this year with great success. My oldest DD tried Wordly Wise, but it wasn't a good fit for her. I bought Sadlier Oxford this year instead, and we are all very happy with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSinNH Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 My DC like vocabulary.com because they love earning badges and 10-in-a-row. We have only been using it for about two months, but some new vocabulary is turning up in other writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilaclady Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 We like Caesar's English here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Wordly Wise is pretty good. Also at that age you may be able to start Vocabulary from Classical Roots or use the English From the Roots Up book and cards. Also I have my 4th grader keep a running list of words he doesn't know in his readings and we look some of them up in the dictionary and discuss. Dictionary skills are important (and not just looking it up on Google---a real dictionary!!--I'm sort of old fashioned). Also we do some vocab work with our spelling words. And when revising/editing any writing familiarize your child with a thesaurus and encourage a few (not too many so the writing won't start to sound stilted) word changes. Studying homonyms and synonym/antonym and so on helps. Whenever my ds says or writes a word that isn't quite right for that context I ask him why he thought that word was right, and then we talk. Mainly vocab has become a never ending conversation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 My DD loves Vocabulary cartoons! :iagree: We finished Vocabulary Cartoons this year and we had great retention!! The book was fun, and the words were presented in multiple ways. Dd frequently notices when one of the words pops up on tv or in her reading. Great, great resource!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 English From the Roots Up was helpful in teaching my older children to see the parts and pieces of words. A fifth grader could easily do volume one in a year. (Get the book or the cards; both is redundant.) My rising fifth grader, my third DC, won't be getting a separate vocabulary this year. The derivative work in his Latin study is more than enough. With my older kids I found learning Latin to be a more effective English vocabulary study than any of the workbooks we'd tried over the years. EFTRU got our feet wet, and we followed it with Latin for Children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted February 20, 2013 Author Share Posted February 20, 2013 Thank you for all of the suggestions! TIme to do some research and see what might work for DS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 You could also try the McGuffey Readers. You may want to start with the 4th reader. Have him read the definitions before and after each reading, do a few each day. You can try it out for free, they are free online from Gutenberg Press. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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