516 Core Vocabulary Words for HSPT/TACHS/COOP With Roots/Usage/Synonyms and more…

516 Core Vocabulary Words for HSPT/TACHS/COOP with Roots/Usage/Synonyms and more...by K. Jonathan is a comprehensive and useful guide to help everyone learn many of the words that appear on these tests. With 241 pages this is a wonderful guide written in an simple to read format. In the beginning of the book you will find an overview on how to grow your vocabulary quickly and easily with the following subtopics: Word Roots, Prefixes/Suffixes, Usage of the Word, Synonyms/Antonyms, Related Words,Pronunciations, and finally, Practice makes Perfect.With 43 review exercises sets containing over a thousand review questions, you will surely learn and retain new words, just like I did. The words themselves appear in sets, beginning with Set One, and are alphabetized. At the end of each set you will find a review exercise, which is broken out as follows: Match the word with its synonym, and then there is a fill in the blanks exercise to use the word in a sentence. This book has 516 words that show up on the test quite often, and this guide will help you learn them faster and remember them too.I found this guide to be quite useful, it's written in a clear, understandable style. It will clearly help anyone studying for the test. The author has done a thorough job of imparting vocabulary knowledge to the reader, strongly recommend.

516 Core Vocabulary: Words for HSPT/TACHS/COOP with Roots/Usage/Synonyms and More by K. Johnathan is an excellent vocabulary resource for students. The book is organized in a clear and intuitive fashion. The book has 43-word sets with 12 words in each set. This book provides all the information you need to learn the words and truly understand how to use them. This includes the definition, pronunciation, synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, root, related words, where the word comes from and more. Each word set also ends with an exercises section to help get you engaged with the words that you are learning. This makes the entire book more engaging since it is not just a list of definitions to read through. Providing such detailed information for each word allow you to gain an in-depth understanding of it. The goal is to not only to help you memorize it for the test but also learn it for good.The book is designed in a way that you can get it for a student that is trying to prepare for the test, or if you are a tutor, it is a great tool for you to have. I also really liked the brief but informative introduction that goes over the methods of the book to increase your vocabulary quickly and effectively. That book is a great resource, and I would highly recommend it.

Standardized tests have been increasing in difficulty over the last decade and most in-class lessons simply don’t offer enough vocabulary diversity to cover these changes. One of my son’s teacher’s suggested that I pick up 516 Core Vocabulary Words for HSPT/TACHS/COOP with Roots/Usage/Synonyms by K. Jonathan and I am glad I did.This guide has a few hundred vocabulary words that are easy to incorporate into a regular conversation which will also help students to remember the words and their usage during their tests. The guide is laid out in an easy to navigate manner with words places in alphabetized sets. The review section at the end of each set also helps you to test your assimilation of words and usage studied.When it comes to testing prep, it is not always easy to keep kids engaged, but the way this guide is broken down into sets of 12 words per section makes it easy to assign smaller batches of study at a time. It’s a great guide for parents looking to help their children prepare without having to fight or punish them with hard to understand lessons.

Regardless of whether English is your strong subject, this book will definitely help you better your grip of the English language. I personally found this material helpful since I discovered that many words that I frequently use mean something different when the context surrounding the word is changed. As an aspiring professional, it is crucial that I continue to refine my use of vocabulary, and this book allows me just that. Moreover, I enjoy that there is a practice/exercise method to learning, as opposed to simply making statements. K. Jonathan allows the reader to work alongside the book, instead of just following along. If your goal is to get better in English Vocabulary, or simply improve your reading and writing, this book will help you accomplish that!

This is a comprehensive, well-organized study guide to learn vocabulary that could likely be on standardized tests like PSAT, COOP, TACHS or HSPT or even other test for Middle/High School students. Lots of other vocabulary guides will give you the basics: word, definition, part of speech, maybe a sample sentence. This guide has that, but then takes it to another level – each word expands into a section called “Further Information”. This section gives additional ways to remember the vocabulary word much more deeply, such as word origin and other words that share the same root. All in all, a wonderful vocabulary-building tool!

This book is a fantastic way to nail down core vocabulary for COOP test. The text uses over 500 words by breaking down the root of the word, how it is used, synonyms, and much more. To start, the book gives you an overview of how to learn these vocabulary words in a quick, yet efficient manner. These tips will really set the standard, as you work through the book. At the end of the text, there is an answer key to help enhance your learning and make sure you are on the right page. I would really recommend this book to people looking to take the COOP test.

Very useful book, especially for the TACHS test.The Additional Information with each word made the whole task of learning new vocabulary interesting.Highly recommended.