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   pjssully
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   I am in need of some advice for my 10th grade daughter. She won't take the SAT for another year so this next year i want to work on SAT voc. words.  She began the vocabulary cartoons for SAT last year but didn't get to far.  This has been kinda a weakness, I guess, NOT for her but for me assigning a "curriculum" for this.  She reads a lot but i think she could use some help for SAT.

   here are my options that I am thinking, could someone please give me their opinion.

   Latin/Greek voc. roots workbook type
   Latin -teaching the language itself
   Working on "just" the most comman SAT words used(i have a list of these words)

   Vocabulary for High School Students.

   Or something else?

   Obviously i can't do them all!!!
   pam

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   smartypants
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   Hi Pam...

   Check out this website:
   http://www.ltftraining.org/TrainingPrograms/TrainingforEnglish/SATVocabulary.aspx

   I am going to use this with my son. It's very basic, but I think to work on SAT vocabulary it will do nicely...and, it's free.

   We have done Vocabulary Vine this year and may continue with that as well since it only takes a few minutes for my son to do.

   hth,
   Robin

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   Bookworm
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   I personally did not do any specific vocab prep for the SAT.  We do some various FUN stuff, like the Mensa word of the day apps on our devices--there are several.  SAT will send you a question a day if you sign up on the College Board site.  Reading a LOT, and older literature when possible, is terrific.  (Writers from before the 1930's had much, much richer vocabularies.)  Latin is what we chose to do.  I have taught it for some time.  If you haven't done any yet, then a roots program might be good.  The benefit of a roots program is that, instead of just learning ONE word at a time, you can learn the keys to take apart nearly ANY "big" word and have a pretty good guess what it's going to mean. 

   In my experience, just plain studying words doesn't have a very high retention rate.  So I would put just studying lists of words as at the bottom of an ascending order of effectiveness; followed by studying Greek and Latin roots, followed by tons of reading, followed by learning Greek and/or Latin.

    

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   TailorMade
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   We have used English from the Roots Up cards and also enjoyed the Word Roots books/software from Critical Thinking Press. I agree with Bookworm that reading loads of great books does more for vocabulary than just about anything else because it's studied in context.

   Becca<><

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   TailorMade
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   I've been thinking back over what our older children did along with word roots' study to develop their spoken and written vocabularies ever since I posted on this thread. I hesitated at first to mention another "tool" we used because it was learned during our pursuit of the Principle Approach to education (NOAH Plan, etc.). But, I think it might be helpful for others as I realized that we haven't dropped this aspect of study and it has always been an exciting part of our learning.

   Word study. Studying a word's definition, roots, and those words' definitions and roots that stand out from the original word's definition expand vocabulary and comprehension tremendously. We will continue to use this as part of Bible study and general studies for the duration.

   DO try this at home! ;0)

   Becca<><

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