 Carey Orr Cook and his wife, Jan, created www.vocabulary.com in May 1997. He has been creating educational content on the web since 1994. He is the grandson of Carey Orr, the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist from the Chicago Tribune. He learned his life-long love of words from his grandfather. Both Jan and Carey believe passionately in education. In 2001 our Rootonym Word Puzzle was syndicated for newspapers by TMS/Tribune Media Services. Click Rootonym® here to see these color puzzles. Prices, delivery and other detailed information are available through TMS/Tribune Media Services at 800-245-6536.
Since September 1997 we have collaborated with America Online to create customized content to reinforce AOL's Research & Learn Channel thematic emphasis.
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 Educational Content: To see examples of ALL our available puzzle offerings click on all puzzle samples. Prices, delivery and other detailed information are available by calling Jan and Carey Cook at 650-854-3132. The online syndication of our daily (7x) Rootonym® is being done by Universal Press Syndicate - uclick LLC. Prices, delivery and other detailed information are available through uclick LLC at 877-682-5425. The newspaper syndication of our daily (6x) Rootonym® is being done by Tribune Media Services.. The Rooty*Hoot*Hoot® brand word puzzles of "Rooty" and "Word Webs" have been self syndicated and published in print newspapers six times a week for over eight years. A new daily word puzzle called Root Routes® is also available. |
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Reminder:
Don't forget to complete other activities and educational exercises from our current Session #137:
Interactive puzzles at grade level:
["S137 Level 1"] --
["S137 Level 2"] --
["S137 Level 3"]
Crosswords: ["S137Level 1 C/W"] --
["S137Level 2 C/W"] --
["S137Level 3 C/W"]
Find the Words: ["S137Level 1 WF"] --
["S137Level 2 WF"] --
["S137Level 3 WF"]
Fill-in-the-Blanks: ["S137Level 1-FITB"] --
["S137Level 2-FITB"] --
["S137Level 3-FITB"]
Definition MATCH: ["S137Level 1-Match"] --
["S137Level 2-Match"] --
["S137Level 3-Match"]
Is It True or False?: ["S137Level 1 T/F"] --
["S137Level 2 T/F"] --
["S137Level 3 T/F"]
Synonym/Antonym Encounters: [S137Level 1-Syn/Ant] -- [S137Level 2-Syn/Ant] -- [S137Level 3-Syn/Ant]
Contextual Stories: ["S137Level 1 Story"] --
["S137Level 2 Story"] --
["S137Level 3 Story"]
Any questions can be directed to Jan and Carey Cook at Vocabulary University for clarification. If you are a teacher, please give us the name, city, state/country of your school. For details on other thematic content click School Thematic Content Calendar 2004-2005.
Have you tried our set of puzzles inspired by Harry Potter? "Visit our Wizard puzzles". If you want our alphabetical list of 160 Wizard-related words just email your request to Wizard Words putting "wizard" in the subject line. Please include your school, city, state and grade you teach, if applicable.
If you want any of our 22 "Alphalaries" (alphabetical vocabulary list) or, in particular, our 280 Character-Ed related words just email your request to Character Education Words and put "character" in the subject line. Please include the name of your school, city, state/country and grade you teach, if applicable. Click here for "Teacher Tips & Ideas" on how to use our thematic Alphalaries.
Again, you can visit our six features on The Most Important SAT* Words.
Top SAT* Word puzzles #1 -
Top SAT* Word puzzles #2 -
Top SAT* Word puzzles #3 -
Top SAT* Word puzzles #4 -
Most Important SAT* Words #5 and
Most Important SAT* Words #6.
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We want to acknowledge that the word definitions in these puzzles are used with the permission of Random House Inc. and most come from their "Random House Webster's College Dictionary".
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