Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, this curriculum unit intended for sixth graders focuses on words. The first lesson serves as an introduction and gives the teacher an opportunity to find out what the students know; lessons 2 through 6 are concerned with the rhetorical use of words (choosing words for their effect); the use of the dictionary is developed in lessons 7 and 8; the ways in which words are developed and the etymologies of words are studied in lessons 9 through 16; and lessons 13, 15, and 16 deal with various word-building processes (compounding and adding suffixes and prefixes) and require a knowledge of parts of speech. Each lesson is accompanied by a statement of its purpose, background, content, possible procedures, and suggested student exercises. (See related documents CS 200 482-494, and CS 200 496-499.) (HS)