Vocabulary

=VOCABULARY RESOURCES= Vocabulary is a great predictor of academic success. Direct instruction can improve comprehension that will extend across all curricular areas. Below are a variety of tools that can be utilized to make learning vocabulary more engaging and meaningful. You will see ideas for vocab games, graphic organizers, varied ideas to incorporate. These are resources geared toward K-12 students and some specifically for ESL students.

WordleFree tool. This is a great tool to make those high frequency words visible. A teacher or student can take a passage or content related material and drop it into a Wordle (examples would be a speech, the Gettysburg Address, a section from a novel, content from a historical document such as the Bill of Rights). Once the content is placed in the Wordle, the most frequently used words will appear in larger font.

Wall Wisher Once you identify specific words you can dig deeper with this free tool. Wall Wisher allows you to build a digital word wall. Students can take words created by the teacher and define them and add video or pictures. Vocab from any content would work with this tool.

Thinglink This tool allows a user to insert a specific word, such as "boycott" for example upon which students could build a multimedia link about the vocabulary word.

Vocabulary Cards This link will take you to a template created by Susan Oxnevad. The link will provide some instruction. She used Google presentation upon which students would create a vocab card. Each card would get one video, one image and one definition. This activity could be done as a collaborative activity with multiple students working to build the cards. Because it was done in Google the cards can be shared with other class members so that all will have the cards to study from and quiz themselves. Susan has used a creative commons license agreement which allows others to user her template.

InstaGrok This tool assists in building a definition with videos, images, and more to take you deeper into the meaning of the vocab word.

Flashcard Stash With this tool the teacher can set up a class and ask the students to join. Students can be assigned a definition to build a card. It is a free tool and quizzes can be built from it.

Visual Thesaurus This is a tool from Thinkmap. Users can build a visual map from a vocabulary word. There are some lists already available on the site.

Lingro This tool will turn digital text into a clickable dictionary which will support 12 languages.

Fun Vocabulary Activities for High School EHow Mom Site

Vocabulary Activities This site has a variety of vocabulary activities shared.


 * Conjuguemos** as an online workbook for your Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Latin language students. The site stores a large amount of practice activities, with more exercises added during the year by users. Teachers can also create their own activities.

Vocabulary Logs and Practice Activities

American English A site for teachers of English as a Second Language students which includes vocabulary activities as well as activities to develop language skills.

My Vocabulary - This links to myvocabulary.com and DAILY WORD PUZZLES - a free resource used in over 24,000 schools to enhance vocabulary mastery & written/verbal skills with Latin & Greek roots.

National Capital Language Resource Center This site has organized beginners, intermediate and advanced vocab activities for teachers to use. Vocabulary website - This is an interesting site as it conveys the importance of vocabulary and provides graphic organizers and ideas for incorporating vocabulary in your classroom. Take time to look over the full page to see all it has to offer.

[|EZSchool] - Provides a variety of resources (see below)
 * * Over 2900 worksheets and 250 worksheet generators
 * Over 600 online drills for online practice
 * A handful of ebooks with online reading comprehension || * More than 100 eduational games
 * Over a dozen easy to understand tutorials
 * Year round spelling program with activities for everyday ||

Vocabulary.co.ilThis site has a variety of vocabulary related games. Users can select a subject are area and then choose the grade level to use the game with. This is an excellent vocabulary website that offers hundreds of amazing games and activities to teacher vocabulary.  [|more from www.vocabulary.co.il] Activities for English speaking and ESL students.   Word Think provides you with a daily reminder to use many of the words you already know, and add many new words to your vocabulary that you can actually use every day!   Word Hippo Wordhippo is a great vocabulary web tool that lets you easily provide antonyms and synonyms to your words.

Word Spy Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.

Graph Words It’s an free English online thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and show connections among associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it.

 Wordia Brings words to life through the use of video. FREE This site is really nice. You can pick a subject and then will see a variety of games that students can play related to that particular subject. I think this would be a fun site to share with students and parents and for teachers to use on a wiki or moodle as a fun yet educational resource for students.   Lexpedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality. This site would be great for students who are writing but are at a loss for what words they could use. In playing with this site I found it was fun to put in a word and see how many other words would come up in relation to the word I used. What a helpful tool for students. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"> Just The Word is a completely new kind of aid to help you with writing English and choosing just the word. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">If English is your first language, JustTheWord can help you express that elusive idea with le mot juste.

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ManyThings.org <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Interesting Things for ESL students is a fun study site for students of English as a second language. It contains word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, proverbs, and much more.

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