If you're a teacher using Vocabulary.com, a great way to bump up your students' word learning is to take Vocabulary.com schoolwide. Class-to-class competition will create a word learning culture within your school, and your students' Words Mastered numbers will climb. Here's how one teacher made that happen within her school. Continue reading...
You know the drill. June hits, students turn in their textbooks and take home their summer reading lists. Then, in the final week of August students hastily read the assigned book's front and back covers (and possibly an online plot summary) in order to write the required book report by the time they report back to class. Continue reading...
Summer may be a time of relaxation and great beach reading, but here at Vocabulary.com, we've been hard at work. We love this time of year because it's the time when we get to roll out all of the great features we've been planning for and implementing throughout the school year.
That's why we're so excited to announce that the next major release of our website is rolling out today. What's new? Everything. Continue reading...
Vocabulary.com announces new custom leaderboards. Now you can create your own mini-version of the Vocabulary Bowl with up to 50 schools of your choosing. Continue reading...
Want a better way to support independent reading this summer? Here's how to use Vocabulary.com so that instruction is easier for you, and learning is more engaging for your students. Continue reading...
Vocabularians everywhere, get ready to join (or host) a Vocabulary Jam! What is a Vocabulary Jam? It's a competition where teams compete in real-time to see which team can answer the most questions correctly.
Start a Jam in your classroom, among friends, or with a whole auditorium. Continue reading...
Here at Vocabulary.com, there's nothing we enjoy more than when kids get fired up about vocabulary improvement. As you'll see in this video, that's exactly what happens when students compete in a Vocabulary Jam. Continue reading...
Not too long ago, more than 150 students from eleven schools came together for an epic Vocabulary Jam. Even now, the Vocab Jam is the perfect way to bring your students together — no matter where you are. Continue reading...
Last night, the five Democratic candidates for president squared off in the first of their televised debates, moderated by CNN's Anderson Cooper. Frontrunner Hillary Clinton and her four challengers, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb, and Lincoln Chafee, stated their cases to primary voters, and their rhetoric was crystallized in the vocabulary items they used. But what were their significant "vocabulary moments"? Continue reading...