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SAT Vocabulary Building Options

News   Vocabulary   Reading   SAT
Michelle Hartwell - Aug 22, 2007

eprep test prep videoSAT Vocabulary Building Manga?

For SAT students that dread traditional vocabulary building techniques but love manga media, there is a new product on the market — the manga graphic novel edited to contain SAT vocabulary words. Take a popular fantasy book, rewrite it a bit to include SAT required vocabulary words and you have an academic twist on a manga story.

Tokyopop, a renown distributor of manga media selected 3 of its popular trilogies and reworked the first volume of each for the SAT vocabulary building series. These slightly edited stories will help the manga fan/SAT student better absorb new vocabulary words. The 3 titles in this pseudo-academic series are:

  • Warcraft: Dragon Hunt, Volume 1 by Richard A. Knaak and Kim Jae-hwan
  • Psy-Comm, Volume 1 by Jason Henderson and Tony Salvaggio
  • Van Von Hunter, Volume 1 by Mike Schwark and Ron Kaulfersch

These books highlight important vocabulary words and include their definitions in page margins. Pretty handy for SAT students into this type of media.

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2 Responses to 'SAT Vocabulary Building Options'

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  1. August 23rd, 2007 at 6:34 pm

    Tal said,

    I bought one of these books when my mom showed a newspaper article about them to me. It’s okay but it’s a bit frustrating to have to read backwards because of the way they are printed. Also, it seems like the vocabulary is extremely artificially placed.

    I have been using two free online ones from freevocabulary .com and prepme .com/sat-quiz/

    Good luck to everyone!

  2. August 23rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm

    Karl said,

    Thanks for the info, Tal. It is good to hear from someone who has actually read one of the books.

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