Vocabulary Virtuoso: Elementary School Vocabulary for Academic Success (Grades 4-5)

Vocabulary Virtuoso from the Critical Thinking Company will help increase students' vocabulary, stimulate imagination, and boost standards-based language arts skills. Featuring dynamic, real-life words students should know and be able to use (and which are also often found on standardized tests), each lesson contains definitions, pronunciation keys, parts of speech, and alternate choices for each word made up of synonyms, idioms, and/or phrases. Students complete a variety of exercises requiring critical reading and writing skills to contextualize the words.

Vocabulary Virtuoso Elementary Level teaches students 150 vocabulary words along with information on homonyms, homophones, homographs, hypothesis, key words, antonyms, hyperbole, fables, myths, folk tales, essay and speech writing.

172 classroom-reproducible pages, softcover. Grades 4-5. Line-listed answer key in the back of the book.