Participate in these FREE vocabulary puzzles to enhance vocabulary mastery. Teachers have endorsed this site that enriches classroom curriculum with self-paced, interactive activities. They supplement personal vocabulary acquisition and are being used in over 19,000 schools plus home schools and ESL programs.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES: Separated into 3 levels of difficulty, these free interactive vocabulary puzzle and activity sessions use Latin and Greek "roots and cells" to help unlock word meanings. 7 links to current exercises include: Fill-in-the-Blanks, Definition Match, Synonym & Antonym Encounters, Crosswords, Word Finds, True/False and Word Stories. See our suggestions on How to use Vocabulary.com!, alphabetical list of 55 thematic features and our School Calendar Content is a must!

SCHOOL CALENDAR: Always available from September and continuing through June and the summer, 65 thematic content features are grouped by months to assist students and teachers. Additional "Summer Session" content is provided every June. Click here or on menu bar above to go to the School Calendar page. Features listed by month and alphabetically.

TEST PREP - SAT* ACT* TOEFL*: 180 words chosen from professional test prep organizations. SAT#1 - SAT#12 available! Go see NEW Session SAT#11 and #12 for an additional 60 words! These interactive puzzles and activities help teachers and students disssect and learn challenging vocabulary necessary for advanced studies. Click here or on menu bar above to link to the Test Prep page.

ALPHALARIES TM: You can receive 185 different lists of thematic words (listed A-thru-Z), and often expressions, pertaining to a specific content theme. Theme-related CROSSWORDS have been added! See the new home page 1/7/08 or : Email Jan Cook. To see the 8 broad categories plus an alphabetical list click here or on the Alphalary menu above.

RECOMMENDED READING: Challenging word lists are posted for more than 125 books used in middle school, high school and/or college classrooms. Teacher contributions are noted and appreciated. Click here or on menu bar above to link to the Recommended Reading page.

CONTENT FEATURES: 65 thematic topics on diverse subjects such as: Wizards, Music, Elections, Mythology, Monsters, Holidays, Character Education, Shakespeare, Science, Rain Forest, Insects and Health & Fitness. New features occur often: Click here or on menu bar above to link to Content Features. Current specials are MLK Jr. Holiday and word lists, Basketball Season puzzles, Election 2008, MULTI-Science Study, Harry Potter-inspired WIZARD WORDS, Greek Mythology word puzzles, and Two New SAT* features #11 and #12 now available - a total of 240 words! Timely: Basketball Season has really begun - cool puzzles!!!

FUTURE FEATURES: We constantly add new content and thank our participants (you can register here) for suggesting topics. Our next features will address (1) "Resolutions" (2) Native Americans (3) Oceans (4) Explorers (5) Fine Arts: Photography (6) Confrontation & Terrorism (7) History-Entertainment (8) Astronomy-Eclipse (9) a Second MATH Thematic (10) NEW Cehmistry, Physics and Geology puzzles available 1/8/08!

VOCABULARY LESSON PLANS: Broad list of words, each derived from specific Latin and Greek roots, are great classroom learning exercises. Click here for Word City #1 and Word City #2 or on menu bar above. WC #1 and WC #2 are MUSTS! Single root lesson plans with puzzles and exercises are free and accessible at both RSVP puzzles and the Root Matrix
PREFIX STUDY is a new feature for this September. Visit 14 key prefixes in puzzles here.

NEW FEATURE now through Week #12! - Myvocabulary.html is a 39 week lesson plan of 2 roots and 16 words per week in puzzles and activities. The 39 week lesson plan is and will be FREE but will ultimately require registration sign up with your own email and password. Week #1 through Week #12 now available!!

ABOUT THE SITE: Jan and Carey Cook are a husband and wife team that began their educational web activities in February 1995. They create two nationally syndicated word puzzles called Rootonym® for both Tribune Media Services Inc. and Universal Press/uclick LLC. At the site there is a How to Use page full of suggestions for content usage. There are over 19,000 schools in the USA and 1000+ overseas that have students and teachers participating in this free vocabulary education site. Have you sent us your school name, city and state/country? See our list of participating schools. We meet the state standards for the NCLB act. Ask to see our California Standards compliance. We strongly adhere to our privacy and permission policy.

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