MASSACHUSETTS TEST PREP Language Skills Workbook Synonyms & Antonyms: Skill-Building Practice for Grade 3, Grade 4, and Grade 5

This book offers an organized program where students complete focused exercises to develop a key language skill required of students. The exercises increase from easy, to moderate, and then to advanced. This leveled and focused approach will introduce students at a comfortable level and then build on the skills so that students reach and then exceed grade level expectations.

Key Features
- 101 exercises focused on synonyms and antonyms
- includes practice understanding and using suffixes and prefixes
- also covers connotations, shades of meaning, and precise word choices
- 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced
- vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets
- format allows for review and feedback as the student progresses

Develops Key Language Skills
- produces a thorough understanding of synonyms and antonyms
- illustrates how prefixes and suffixes change word meaning
- helps students distinguish between words with similar meanings
- provides practice using synonyms and antonyms to complete analogies
- builds an understanding of positive and negative connotations
- teaches students to use context to determine word meaning
- helps students make real-life connections between words and their meanings
- improves writing by encouraging stronger word choices
- provides practice making precise word choices