composers orchestra vocabulary scholarship

books:

Story of the Orchestra : Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote ...

18 reviews
Robert T. Levine

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2000

Highly Entertaining and Educational
I was looking for resources to help make teaching about classical music and composers to primary grade children more entertaining and I found what I needed all wrapped up in this book and CD combination. Part I of the book concerns composers and is separated into the periods in which they composed, ie., Baroque, etc., with a brief description of art, architecture and feeling of the period. ...

Vocabulary for the High School Student Book B

1 review
Harold Levine, Robert Levine, ...

Amsco School Pubns Inc, 1991

ah.
what a bad book. don't buy it. definitions are confusing and exercises do not make sense.

The Joy of Vocabulary

2 reviews
Harold Levine, Norman Levine, ...

Signet, 1997

Fabulous!
I bought this book some time ago and just recently started to use it and I am very impressed. It has the same things as the others: word families, roots, stories, and exercises. However, the "thinking with your new words" section is genius! It's the best exercise I've seen which aids one's "recall." Having to take a description or phrase and narrow it down to a specific word instead of ...

Vocabulary for the College Bound Student

5 reviews
Harold Levine, Norman Levine, ...

Amsco School Pubns Inc, 1992

An appreciation for this book
In searching for a vocabulary workbook to help my son studying for SSAT test, I stumbled into a very old edition of this book at a second-handed book store. I immediately recognized the value of this book. As you can see, English is not my mother tongue language, so studying English for me is a science. I like the way the book builds up blocks of knowledge and goes up from there. I studied it ...

Scholarship Vocabulary Program: Course 2

1 review
Harold Levine, Norman Levine, ...

Amsco School Pubns Inc, 1995

Perfect For Fifth Grade
The average middle or high school student knows 90 % of the word in Courses II and III. For maximum effectiveness, it should be as a way to have 5th graders build a vocabulary base for their middle and high school years.