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Do you find it hard to teach vocabulary to your middle or high schooler? Are you searching for just the right program that will help improve your students vocabulary while also helping to develop high order thinking skills? Then I have the vocabulary that might work for you!
I was so excited to be offered Greek Morphemes Lessons (It's NOT Greek to Me!) from Ready to Teach. This vocabulary program is the brainchild of Alene H. Harris, Ph.D. who taught secondary vocabulary and life science in the schools of Nashville TN for over 16 years.
Once our package arrived at our house I opened it up to find two books, a teachers manual and a student book, and a flash drive.
As I explored the program that night reading through the teachers manual, I discovered that this program can be used three different ways.
~ independently, with the student fully in charge of the flash drive and working through the lessons
~ with the parent as the teacher working right along with the student and guiding he or she through the lessons
~ in a co-op setting
Greek Morphemes Lessons (It's NOT Greek to Me!) studies Greek roots, suffixes, and prefixes in 12 lessons with a major review and test after Lessons 6 and 12. Ideally the course can be completed in just 14-16 weeks if you complete a lesson a week.
A detailed daily lesson plan is included inside the teachers manual so you know exactly what to do. Answers are included for each lesson too. Each lesson also includes a set of color – coordinated study cards for further review for the visual and tactile/kinesthetic learners. The study cards are printed on cardstock and I plan to laminate them for use with future children down the road. Bulletin board ideas and transparency masters are included if you have those options available to you. At the end of each week there is a lesson test which includes 25 to 30 morphemes.
I choose to work right along with Madison, my 8th grader, through the lessons. Before we began I went over the detailed lesson plan so she would know exactly what was expected. While I did not sit right next to her during study time, I was available in the next room for questions. I also found that reviewing with her in the van while driving to the gym or while sitting at the ball fields was a great way to get her to explain what she was learning. This proved a good way for her to stump me on some of the words too
“An article in the June 2008 Peabody Reflector, a publication of Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, recently highlighted research showing that children learn best when they explain what they are learning to their mother”. {pg.7}
Overall, I {we} love this vocabulary instruction program and wholeheartedly recommend it to 
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Company ~ Ready to Teach
Product ~
Greek Morphemes Lessons (It's NOT Greek to Me!)
Price ~ $69.95 plus $12.75 shipping & handling
Ages ~ 8th grade and up
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Happy Birthday to the young lady who made me a Mama! I can’t believe you are 18 and ready to spread your wings out in the world. I hope your day was filled with love and joy.
Love you to the moon and back Miss Marie!
Let’s talk about math today. You see this little girl 
GPALOVEMATH is a fantastically awesome web-based math program for children in Kindergarten through 5th grade. With the help of seven animated characters who serve as “Learning Coaches” for each grade your child will get 150 lessons with over 10,000 practice problems per grade {that’s a lot of math!}. By just doing math lessons 4 to 5 days a week, your child can complete a grade level in just 10 months!
Setting up an account for McKenzie was really quite simple and painless. The administrator account allowed me to test drive the lessons and track her progress. GPALOVEMATH can be accessed on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac computers, Apple iPad, or on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari 6 & 7. Google Chrome is the preferred browser but we had success with Explorer.
Since McKenzie is not a proficient reader yet I would sit with her and read the problems to her during the quiz section. I initially started McKenzie in the Kindergarten level, but it proved to not keep her attention during the lessons. So, just recently I bumped her up to the 1st grade math. Each lesson has three parts:
instruction ~ work with your grade level learning coach with one-on-one instruction
practice ~ practice some problems that you just learned
quiz ~ test out your skills and secure your rewards
A built in reward system keeps the learning and progression fun. What child doesn’t want an extra 30 minutes to stay up past their bedtime?! Or as the administrator you can set up your own rewards that celebrates your child’s effort for getting the lesson done! It’s a win-win for parents and children!
We mainly used this program two to three days a week as a supplement to our everyday math and I never had a problem with McKenzie not wanting to practice. Overall, once I found the right level for McKenzie she was able to find her groove and excel with this program. McKenzie likes this program and so do I. I plan to continue using this for the rest of our subscription year.
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Company ~ GPA LEARN
Product ~ GPALOVEMATH
Platform ~ Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac computers, Apple iPad, or on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari 6 & 7.
Ages ~ Kindergarten through 5th
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