Wordly Wise

Wordly Wise is a series of vocabulary-building workbooks generally marketed to the Christian school and homeschooling markets.

One Version of Wordly Wise
Wordly Wise has many makers and one of them is made by Keneth Hodkinson & Joseph G. Ornato. Each book has many levels, there is Books 1-8, 8 being the most difficult. Each book consists of about 20 lessons. Each lesson has 5 sections which are labeled alphabeticly. Section A is commonly an exercise where you pick 2 half sentence sections that include one Wordly Wise Word out of 4 choices. There is normally 10 problems and for each question you right it out as well as circling or highlighting the 2 half sentence choices. The next section is called B. B consists of 10 questions as well and each problem is a fill in the blank sentence. There is a sentence and one part of it is italisized which is what you are supposed to cross out and replace with one Wordly Wise word. Section C consists of 20 problems and its typically a problem where they give you a sentence with a word in it and you choose which definitions make the sentence correct. Section D consists of 10 problems and you choose 2 out of 4 words which you think are either synonyms or antonyms. You highlight or circle the two words and a corresponding A or S which shows that they're either synonyms or antonyms. The next section is E, its a very long wection which tests reading comprehension skills. E has a narrative which uses all 15 Wordly Wise words in that lesson. There are 15 comprehension questions that correspond to the narrative. If a Wordly Wise word is used in the question then you must answer the question without using a Wordly Wise word. However if a Wordly Wise word is not used in the question then you must use a Wordly Wise word to answer the question. In the end you should have 15 questions with answers and throughout the questions and answers each 15 Wordly Wise words should be used only once. After 3 lessons there is either a crossword puzzle or a hidden message that use words from the past 3 lessons.