WAYS WITH WORDS, Vocabulary Puzzles in Meaning Categories =  144-Page Student Text or Reproducible Pages 

Designed for secondary to adult learners at basic (literacy) to intermediate levels of language proficiency, Ways with Words presents and practices practical vocabulary in these Meaning Categories:  Things, Foods, Actions, Clothing, Places, Jobs, Describing People, the Calendar Year, the Community, the World of Work, Housing & Neighborhoods, Transportation, Health & Illness, Leisure Time, and Review. The puzzle types offered in each unit are Word Search, Crossword, Rebus or Scrambled Words, Missing Letters, Categories, Matching, Words in Context, and Expressions & Idioms.

Most pages are heavily illustrated with simple line drawings. The chapters and kinds of puzzles progress from easy  to challenging.  An Introduction to the Teacher gives step-by-step suggestions for classroom use of the various puzzle types, including ways to use them for small-group and cooperative learning.  A Co-ordinating Language Lesson Plans Chart  tells when and how to use the vocabulary in lessons that focus on grammar or sentence structure, content subtopics, or notions and functions.  Puzzle solvers may not need them, but for instructors and tutors, there's a puzzle Answer Key, especially useful in devising follow-up lessons. 

The pages work well for home study by individual, independent learners.  Additionally or alternatively, they may be reproduced by the original purchaser for whole-class or learning-group instruction, review, or reinforcement.  

ISBN: 978-1-891077-27-2        $25.00 US