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<strong>Media</strong> <strong>Center</strong> <strong>Holdings</strong>- <strong>with</strong> <strong>Call</strong> <strong>Number</strong> <strong>and</strong> Librarian Notes<br />

01 Apr 2011 12:44 PM<br />

<strong>Monarch</strong> <strong>Media</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />

Title Author<br />

<strong>Call</strong> <strong>Number</strong><br />

Resource Type: Games<br />

Wordopoly : A Play <strong>with</strong> Words game Linguisystems, Inc. / USA<br />

Ages: 10-15 years (Wordopoly has been renamed Vocabopoly)<br />

Benefits<br />

Builds vocabulary<br />

Helps students develop flexible word usage<br />

Strengthens oral expressive language skills<br />

Features<br />

Based on word frequency surveys<br />

Uses words commonly found in classroom curriculum<br />

Plays like Monopoly<br />

Provides 600 questions <strong>and</strong> answers in order of difficulty<br />

Covers a wide variety of semantic skill areas<br />

Includes game variations to shorten the game<br />

What does metric mean?<br />

How do the words astronaut <strong>and</strong> explorers go together?<br />

Name an animal you scarcely see in your area.<br />

WordOPOLY has 600 questions <strong>and</strong> answers to help students increase word knowledge, word flexibility, <strong>and</strong><br />

word usage. We used The Educator’s Word Frequency Guide to select the target vocabulary for this game.<br />

Words were selected based on their frequency of occurrence in student textbooks <strong>and</strong> literature for grades 5<br />

through 10. An alphabetical word list is included in the game manual.<br />

The questions cross all curriculum areas <strong>and</strong> reinforce the vocabulary your students need to know in order to<br />

succeed in school. The game booklet lists all the questions <strong>and</strong> answers in order of difficulty so you can choose<br />

questions from the level appropriate for each student’s ability.<br />

Questions cover these language skills:<br />

adverbs<br />

analogies<br />

antonyms<br />

associations<br />

br<strong>and</strong> names/signs<br />

categories<br />

cloze<br />

definitions<br />

describing words<br />

exclusion<br />

idioms jargon<br />

metaphors<br />

multiple meanings<br />

paraphrasing<br />

riddles<br />

root words<br />

similes<br />

slang<br />

suffixes<br />

synonyms<br />

verbs<br />

853 .175 LIN<br />

ResourceMate® 3.0 <strong>Monarch</strong> <strong>Media</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />

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