The Word Within the Word III, Color

About this curriculum

This is a full-color edition of the vocabulary book in Level 7 of the MCT language arts curriculum. The Word Within the Word III  is the culmination of the MCT vocabulary series, building upon Volumes I and II and adding to them with new stems and words. Like the first two volumes, Volume III contains thirty lessons, which are structured the same way that the lessons in Volume II were set up: each lesson contains a list of stems, with meanings and example words, as well as a list of advanced academic words that contain the stems, ten of which are new and five of which are brought forward from the first two volumes. The lessons in this book include various elements from each of the first two volumes, including stem close-ups, notes and ideas pages, reading comprehension questions, analogies, antonyms, comprehension questions about challenging readings, and invention activities, in which students are asked to play with the words in the context of creative writing. In this volume,   the historical essays feature the battle for control of Rome between the assassins of…