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| Picture These SAT Words in a Flash | 
 enlarge | Author: Philip Geer
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 66042
Media: Cards
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 4.1 x 2.4
ISBN: 0764179217
Dewey Decimal Number: 378
EAN: 9780764179211
ASIN: 0764179217
Publication Date: February 1, 2006
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Product Description
Here is a highly effective and fun way for students to build their word power while they study in preparation for the SAT’s Critical Reading and Writing Skills sections. This learning tool is a set of flash cards—but flash cards with a difference! The front side of each card presents a humorous cartoon, a visual pun that relates to the headword at the card’s top. The pun supplies a clue to the word’s meaning, which is presented on the reverse side, with examples of the word used in sentences. For example, the headword hierarchy is printed above a cartoon showing Noah examining his work chart at his ark-building factory. His chart shows diagrams of higher arks at its top, medium-high arks in the center, at lower arks at its bottom. The caption reads: “A higher ark he built in the hierarchy of arks,” and the card’s reverse side gives students the meaning of hierarchy: “arrangement by rank or standing.” The boxed set contains a total of 200 vocabulary cards, each with its new word for test-takers to learn, its cartoon, and its pun.
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 Disagree with approach March 25, 2008
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I disagree with this approach to learning vocabulary. The pictures have absolutely nothing to do with the language roots of each word. Yes, they serve as clever mnemonic crutches, but the end result is that the mind will forever carry around superfluous and inaccurate associations. I mean, really, asking you to think of someone "prodding a gull" to learn the meaning of "prodigal"?
I guess people are more interested in their SAT score than in learning for the long run. For short term gain, if skills with English mean nothing to you for the remainder of your life, these cards are novel.
 great tool for SAT vocab prep February 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I use these with my high school AVID students to help them learn vocabulary for the SAT test. The pictures and examples really help them learn the words.
It makes the work easier December 30, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The pictures really helps, esp. if the person is young, I guess. Our daughter started "big" words very early -- she is nine. She loves these cards and remembers the vocabularies very well with their help.
Great way to visualize the word August 13, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought these for my daughter who will be taking her SAT's and really think that these flashcards are very helpful. You are able to visualize how the word is being used in a sentence with the cartoon drawing that is on each card. I wish that there were more words. Though I think this is a great tool for someone who struggles with vocabulary, to pass the SAT's you need more words to work with.
 could be much better August 2, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The mneumonic and picture don't really tie well to the words definitions. There are much better study helps than this
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