Children's Writer's Word Book [Paperback]

Alijandra Mogilner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 26, 2006 | ISBN-10: 1582974136 | ISBN-13: 978-1582974132 | Edition: 2

In this revised and expanded 2nd edition, Children's Writer's Word Book helps you immediately determine if you're using the right vocabulary and language for your audience. With its intuitive organization, you'll easily find appropriate words for children of various ages, and discover substitute words that might work even better.

This comprehensive resource keeps you in touch with reading levels for today's kids, and saves you valuable research time by putting all the information you need in one volume. You'll find:

• Lists of specific words that are introduced at seven key reading levels (kindergarten through sixth grade)
• A thesaurus of those words with synonyms, annotated with reading levels
• Detailed guidelines for sentence length, word usage, and themes at each reading level
• A thorough explanation of guidelines for national standards on reading

This new edition also addresses important timely topics of the day, such as disability issues and sensitivity to race, religion, and culture. Other new additions relate to divorce, the concept of death, space exploration, the internet, fantasy and science fiction, ethnic and cultural pride, and much more.

With Children's Writer's Word Book, 2nd edition, you can rest assured you'll be able to address your young audience with a vocabulary and style they'll understand and enjoy—and improve your chances with children's publishers.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Children's Writer's Word Book will help you keep your vocabulary on target". -- Writer's Library --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Alijandra Mogliner writes children's literature and teaches a class in writing for publication at the University of California at San Diego. She is the mother of three children and lives in San Diego, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books; 2 edition (July 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582974136
• ISBN-13: 978-1582974132
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,617 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 49 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Graded Word Lists + Age Profile = GREAT BOOK June 7, 2000

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

The Children's Writer's Word Book is one of those littlereferences you wouldn't necessarily think you needed in yourcollection. However, once I opened this book, I knew I needed to place it in a very prized position on my reference shelf.

Not only are the graded word lists extremely helpful, but the short profile of each age group combined with the description of what publishers are looking for at each reading level makes for a powerful advantage when writing for children.

This book is a must-have if you are writing for children.

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on writing for children I have found. October 4, 2000

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

More than just a list of words and grades, this book actually tells you what publishers are looking for and why. It also gives examples of writing, explains how to introduce new words and foreign words and diffrent types of childrens writing.

I have used this book a great deal with good results.

39 of 41 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful Thesaurus November 19, 2005

By J. Gilmer

Format:Paperback

The beginning of this book is broken down into chapters from Kindergarten to Sixth grade and gives sample words to use at each level.

But the bulk of this book (and most useful part) is a Thesaurus of sorts. It gives word choices for each grade level for each word in the Thesaurus.

Overall a good book to get a general idea of the words to use with each grade level.