Many students are not accepted in to certain colleges and universities because of low SAT scores. Loren Meierding has written Ace the Verbal on the SAT to help students with minimal preparation do well by improving their vocabulary and use better techniques for finding the answers to the questions. This book provides strategies needed to score…

Discusses the experience-vocabulary-dictation'' technique of teaching creative writing to elementary school students. (RB)

Describes method of teaching the thesaurus to children with a low vocabulary. Lists of words pertaining to the word dirty was made by children who were inadvertently compiling their own thesaurus and building a vocabulary. (AF)

In free word association lists administered to children and adolescents 3 times at 1-year intervals, idiodynamic associative sets remained stable, though specific words did not. (MH)

Analyzes the compilation of the 220 words included in the Dolch Basic Sight Word List from studies done in the 1920's. Compares this list to the representatively selected 50,406 words in rank order from the Kucera-Nelson Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (1967). (MB)

Reviews materials that teachers and students can use to help build knowledge of topics and word meanings that are essential to reading comprehension. (FL)

Describes a strategy used to teach health-related vocabulary that required students to understand and make value judgments about the words. (MKM)

Concludes that (1) conditions that precipitate vocabulary acquisition (appealing sound, "adultness," strong emotion, peer usage) are closely associated with both social affect and social environment and that (2) words are rarely learned as a result of traditional teaching methods. (FL)

Presents ideas for using students' names as springboards for vocabulary or reading instruction. (FL)

An approach is described which uses slides and corresponding flashcards for vocabulary development of deaf students in a medical technology program. Slides can display term only, definition only, or both. The method's use has increased student comprehension scores while decreasing learning time. (CL)

Discusses three approaches to thesaurus and indexing/retrieval language maintenance for combined databases: reindexing, merging, and initial standardization. Two thesauri for a combined database are evaluated in terms of their compatibility, and indexing practices are compared. Tables and figures help illustrate aspects of the comparison. (SW)