Vocabulary Workshop: Tools for Excellence

Tools for Excellence Level A Unit 1 Answers Choosing the Right Word Answer Key Synonyms Answer Key   Antonyms Answer Key   Completing the Sentence Answer Key   Vocabulary in Context: Literary Text  Answer Key Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Tools for Excellence Overview The Vocabulary Program That's More Than a Word List The Tools for Excellence Edition continues Vocabulary Workshop’s more than 50-year legacy of success. Building students’ vocabularies includes not only research-based word lists, but research-based instruction and practice. Direct Instruction Direct, explicit, and systematic instruction provides students opportunities to understand words in text (receptively) and to apply that understanding through writing (expressively). Introductory Passage Exposure to new vocabulary in the context of reading passages helps students learn the way these words are used as well as how to use context clues to help determine word meaning. Writing: Words in Action Two writing prompts give