<p>Does anyone have any tips or advice?</p>
<p>Read books… and not Twilight or Dan Brown.</p>
<p>memorize words
learn grammar</p>
<p>FreeRice for vocab
IDK grammar</p>
<p>Read books broski. Twilight is bomb Gryffon.</p>
<p>As other said, just read a lot.</p>
<p>Of course it’s best to read higher literature than Twilight and Dan Brown, but I actually think (at least for grammar, probably not vocab so much) that you’ll be better off if you can just read a lot rather than take forever with one difficult book.</p>
<p>Don’t read grapes of wrath if you want grammar</p>
<p>Oh ok, Sounds simple lol. I disliked reading books when I was young. Now i know.</p>
<p>Read read read. Learning words in context is considered more effective than memorizing lists, and will also help your grammar, which lists of words will not.</p>
<p>If you have a hard time slogging through some of the classics, take a look at this list</p>
<p>[ALA</a> | 2010 Best Books for Young Adults](<a href=“http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bbya2010.cfm]ALA”>http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bbya2010.cfm)</p>
<p>and if that doesn’t suit you, try any of the hundreds of other lists on the Young Adult Library Services Association. Hey, who would know better than librarians, right? [ALA</a> | YALSA: The Young Adult Library Services Association](<a href=“http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/yalsa.cfm]ALA”>http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/yalsa.cfm)</p>
<p>Here’s the 2010 top ten they recommend. 2010 Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults</p>
<pre><code>* Brennan, Sarah Rees. Demon’s Lexicon. Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry. 2009.
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Griffin, Paul. The Orange Houses. Penguin/Dial Books. 2009.
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Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea. Penguin/Viking. 2008.
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Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group. Harcourt/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009.
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Napoli, Donna Jo. Alligator Bayou. Random House / Knopf. 2009.
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Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir. W.W. Norton & Co. 2009.
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Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. Random House / Wendy Lamb Books. 2009.
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Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books. 2009.
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Taylor, Laini. Lips Touch: Three Times. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. 2009.
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Walker, Sally M. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland. Lerner/Carolrhoda Books. 2009.
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<p>freerice is actually really fun</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply snapdragonfly, Your post is very detailed and helpful.</p>
<p>you can also read grammar books.
it was the best of sentence it was the worst of sentences.
and though i have not read it.
eats, shoots, and leaves
is supposed to be good.</p>
<p>^^It is detailed and helpful indeed, but the list doesn’t include Twilight. Don’t forget those books.</p>
<p>by memorizing barron’s 20,000 vocab word list</p>
<p>SAT prepbooks? lol</p>
<p>Incorporate SAT words into your daily life and Facebook statuses. The best way to remember a word and make it part of your writing bank is to use it.</p>