Vocabulary Cartoons: Building an Educated Vocabulary With Visual Mnemonics

Mnemonics, is a great method to use to build one's vocabulary. I highly recommend this book as using visual imagery works. Once the learner can associate the word with a well known image the word that previously seemed difficult to learn becomes easy and familiar. Teachers and parents of reluctant word learners should find this book interesting.

This book is awesome!! My daughter is in 5th grade and I have been trying to find a practical and effective way for her to study vocabulary. This book is so fun and enjoyable. My daughter often uses the vocabulary words in her everyday conversations now. We both enjoy the funny cartoons and I am learning too.

I homeschool 3rd and 5th grade boys and have really enjoyed using Vocabulary Cartoons. It's one subject that I never have to beg them to do. I have the 3rd grader doing one page a day and the 5th grader 2 a day which is not much. They really enjoy the cartoons and play on words to help them remember what the vocabulary words mean. It's a subject that they've taken on to do independently which is a big help to me. The Review tests every so often help me to determine if they are really absorbing these words or not and the ease of layout is great for the kids.

Very good deal and we really like this vocabulary book for my daughter.

Great for all students but particularly with ESL students who need that visual cue. This is a great way to link the words and their meaning to an image. I found my students coming up to me saying they were running into these words in their reading and could now better understand what they were reading. Highly recommend these books.

My 10 year old daughter really enjoys learning the words and the cartoons, sentences, and review quizzes at the end of each section really help to cement the knowledge. I wish they had another book for this age range. The next set of books are SAT books that would be too difficult for her.

I am a middle school English teacher who wanted to increase the written vocabulary of my students. I make an overhead transparency of a cartoon twice a week and cover the definition of the word. As a do now, students record the word and guess at the definition. After revealing the definition, students correct their guesses (most do not need to) and create a hint for remembering the word. I challenge them to use the new words in the writing and it has become very successful. Try it!

Refer to review theb1 and 2 Wish this was around when I was at school.