Then there are 6 lines, in each of which you can enter any existing word.īy entering the first word, you are trying not so much to guess the word right away, but simply the first step in the game, where you can get hints about the word that was guessed. By default, it consists of 5 letters, but on our site you can set the number of letters from 4 to 11. Your goal is to find out what word is hidden. Otherwise, I would lean toward Vocabulary Workshop because I can't image doing boring rigorous SAT style test prep at home year round. If I were home schooling or approaching an important testing year for a GAT program or high school, I might use them both. Wordly Wise has a page at the end to describe definition variants of each word, and Wordly Wise has 2 pages at the end that have a grammar lesson.Įach book has about 20 units, maybe 30 words combined. Wordly Wise's questions are harder and more complicated. Vocabulary Workshop's stories are way better. I've got the 4th grade version of each open in front of me. I think Vocabulary Workshop is much better for kids under the age of 9. Wordly Wise 3000 is about $11 on Amazon and Vocabulary Workshop is about $15-$19 on Amazon but $14 on the website. Mental note to self - the ability to memorize lots of vocabulary words quickly is a very useful skill in the academic environment. This trick works wonders and he's gotten A's in science ever since. When my 1st grader was struggling with 3rd grade science, I started to hang up the next unit's vocabulary list on the refrigerator so we could memorize the words before kids started the unit. I think this has more to do with the fact that kids like to learn stuff at this age and less about the book. My oldest would usually not grumble about doing it which was also miraculous. My youngest would wake up early on Saturday's and beg to do the next unit of Vocabulary Workshop ahead of schedule. There is a great online component that will read the story to you. Vocabulary Workshop has it's own stories and is much more interesting and enjoyable than Wordly Wise 3000 for little kids. I got Vocabulary Workshop for my kids starting at about age 5 or 6 because at the time I was obsessed with test prep and vocabulary is 74.3% of test success. This drives my oldest son crazy but he's managing to do well in school. They are working 2 years up, which is hard but doable.Īt home, we use Wordly Wise 3000 like SAT test prep as well, but I stick post-it notes around so I remember to work the words into the conversation. This class is hard core and the kids thrive under the workload. There is another spelling book that is organized around phonics as well. It's also used as a spelling word list because the kids lose points for misspelling the words on the quizzes. The program overall is very enriching with projects and plays and great books, but the Wordly Wise 3000 is used just for boring old disciplined memorization. The teachers do not use any supplementary material other than the student workbook and treat the exercise like SAT test prep. Each unit has about 15 words (I'm looking at the 4th grade edition right now), about 5 pages of complicated questions, and a single story with super hard questions. The books are introduced in the 3rd grade. Wordly Wise 3000 is used at my sons' school. Plus I've got some excellent teachers to watch. I'm beginning to realize that it's not clear to everyone how and when to use a workbook because everyone hasn't made all of the mistakes I made and bought the wrong material. I've gotten a lot of great questions over the Thanksgiving weekend from people who aren't out shopping but are still at home bored.
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