Vocabulary Building Exercises for the Young Adult

Vocabulary Building Exercises for the Young Adult–Second Edition is designed for the student who needs to build useful, meaningful vocabulary to succeed in everyday living. The author has developed the lessons for teenagers and adults who are reading at below-average levels. The vocabulary words included in these reproducible worksheets were originally submitted by students, who gathered them from newspapers and magazines that are accessible to most young adults. The students encountered these words but did not understand them. The words are arranged by grade levels based on the Ginn Word Book for Teachers (Johnson, Moe, & Baumann, 1983) and the EDL Core Vocabularies (Taylor, et. al., 1989.)

Young adults with limited reading ability gain courage and confidence when they complete the worksheet exercises and then apply more meaning to current reading materials. These workbooks are useful for students studying English as a second language (ESL), those with learning disabilities, those with hearing impairments, and those who are below average in reading.