Reviews for Wordfest!

The average rating for Wordfest! based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-10 00:00:00 Daniel Forte I spent a month working on Wordfest! and had learned hundreds of words. Consequently, I feel like I know much more now than I ever did before. The exercises are painless and enjoyable with many checkpoints for understanding and reinforcing more comprehension. Sometimes, I like the definitions in Wordfest! better than the Webster's Dictionary. An added bonus to the book is the list of well-known foreign phrases. I think that was quite useful. There is one caveat about the book: there are a number of errors, typos, and spelling mistakes throughout. But, I am able to easily spot the solecisms. All in all, Wordfest! did a lot to increase my vocabulary base.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-07-16 00:00:00 Jason Summers This book accompanies Rief's consumable writer's/reader's notebook, so the first quarter of this book is a user guide for her notebook product. If you are not planning on using her consumable notebooks with your students, you'll still find a few ideas that you could apply to whatever notebook your students are using. However, the rest of the text, and the most useful aspect of this text, is comprised entirely of real student notebook samples. These samples are an amazing teaching resource. A teacher could use the responses as a resource for identifying teaching points and/or use the examples for modeling. Gathering and keeping track of student work, especially student notebook work, to use in later teaching can be daunting, but this text has already done that work for you! I've rated this book a four even though I don't find Rief's insights about notebooks to be revolutionary, however, I do find the samples of student work to be incredibly valuable.