The Word Wise books help students to build word muscles, to become word wise, deepen their understanding of words and language, and strengthening their knowledge of: strategies for building vocabulary for specific contexts, how the ways in which we use words matters, the continuum of formal and informal word choices, word play that increases language knowledge, how words work, where words come from, denotative and connotative meanings, why we use certain words in certain ways, how spelling patterns can be developed, and how to use key grammatical structures.

Subtitle on cover: Challenges and investigations.