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About Butte Publications

• Multiple Word Meanings
• Multiple Meanings for the Young Adult
• Picture This: Multiple Meanings & Figurative Language
• Picture This: Multiple Meanings for Beginning Enlish Readers & Phrasal Verbs - Figurative Language for Beginning Readers
• Visual Verbs: Teaching State-of-Being

Multiple Word Meanings
James Lattyak and Suzanne Dedrick

Multiple Word Meanings is for use by students in elementary grades and above who have limited understanding of words that have more than one meaning. This book is a revision of two popular series, Many Meanings and Multiple Meanings. Now combined into one comprehensive program, it is designed for ease of use while retaining the salient aspects of the original materials. Its restructuring provides a seamless transition from less complex language structures to the difficult challenges of language development, especially semantics and syntax. The language structures closely parallel those used in Reading Milestones. Objectives and standards are provided for teachers to individualize their evaluations for each student's needs. In this way, Multiple Word Meanings allows for a great deal of flexibility in both the delivery of instruction and its viability.

Multiple Meanings for the Young Adult
Dorothy McCarr

Motivational, fun exercises that help older students build a meaningful vocabulary. The exercises focus on common words that have many different meanings. Eighty common, practical words found in newspapers, magazines and texts are included. Twenty lessons each include four words, with 3 exercises for each word. Each of the 4 words in the lesson has from 4 to 10 definitions.

Exercise 1 of each lesson has 10 sentences using the word in different contexts. The student identifies the correct usage of the word from the definition page. In exercise 2, the student matches parts of a sentence from 2 columns (10 sentences total). In exercise 3, the student writes the complete sentences formed in Exercise 2 and indicates the correct definition for the word as found on the definition page at the beginning of the lesson.

An answer key is included at the back of the workbook for students who are capable of working independently; it also may be removed by the instructor.

Middle school - adult
Reading Level: approximately 2.0-3.0

Picture This
Kristin DiPerri

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Picture This: Multiple Meanings in English Context

Each exercise page focuses on one English word with multiple meanings (e.g. back, put, light). Each word is used in four contextualized sentences using controlled vocabulary. This facilitates students focus on deducing meaning. Once understood, the student illustrates the intent of the sentence.

Picture This: Figurative Language in English Context

Each exercise page focuses on one English word used figuratively (e.g. light: to feel lightheaded, eat a light lunch, etc). Each word is used in two contextualized paragraphs using controlled vocabulary. This facilitates students focus on deducing meaning. Once understood, the student illustrates the intent of the sentence.

Both workbooks include introduction and rationale statement, a few examples, 37 exercises and pre/post test. Target words are the same in both books.

Picture This: Multiple Meanings for Beginning English Readers

This workbook is a new version, designed for beginning readers, of the well-liked Multiple Meanings in English Context. Each exercise page focuses on one English word and two of its meanings (e.g., box, fire, top). Each word appears in two contextualized sentences using controlled vocabulary. This facilitates the student’s focus on deducing meaning. Students reinforce their understanding by illustrating the intent of each sentence.

Picture This: Phrasal Verbs - Figurative Language for Beginning Readers

A new addition to the popular Picture This series, this workbook, created for beginning readers, focuses on one phrasal verb (e.g., call off, get up, try out) on each exercise page. Each verb is used in a contextualized sentence using controlled vocabulary. Students deduce the verb’s meaning and then illustrate the intent of the sentence. They then write and illustrate their own sentences using the phrasal verb.

Both Beginning Reader workbooks include introduction and rationale statements, student samples, a pre/post test, and 60 exercise pages.

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Visual Verbs:
Teaching State-of-Being
Kristin DiPerri

Visual Verbs visually guides students to understand what each state-of-being verb (is, are, am, was, were, will be) means and how it functions. Also included are have, has and had.

The workbook includes:

• notes to the instructor for preteaching ideas and concept development
• general explanation for the function of each word
• hierarchy for verb presentation
• teaching strategies that compare, contrast, and continue building on the student's comprehnsion
• related concept development work pages
• pre/post test