Abravocabra: The Amazingly Sensible Approach to Teaching Vocabulary

Abravocabra: The Amazingly Sensible Approach to Teaching Vocabulary by Larson, Randy. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9781877673320.

Help your students improve their vocabularies with "AbraVocabra," a book that makes teaching vocabulary easy and effective. The book includes 24 lists of 12 words--all words taken from newspapers, magazines, and television. The words are practical words that any reasonably educated person is likely to encounter in real life. "AbraVocabra" includes the following: "tip-off" sentences to help students figure out what the words mean; simple, student-friendly definitions; lots of ideas for getting the students to use, and thus learn, the words; interesting tests that do more than ask students to "regurgitate" definitions; and playing cards and instructions for playing the "Vocabra" game. "AbraVocabra" has everything a teacher needs to help students expand their vocabularies.