With the 2014 Sochi Olympics well underway, and gimme vocabulary like heat, final, champion, medal, and competition rolling readily off your tongue, it's time to take your Olympics vocabulary learning to the next level. Continue reading...
For those of you Vocabulary Bowl fans who like a good underdog story, the October results offered just that. The Mighty Purple Pups of Lanier Middle School in Houston prevailed as top dog in the first month of the official 2016 - 2017 Season. Continue reading...
In an insightful post on meeting the text complexity standard for the Common Core, Teaching Channel coach Ryan McCarthy presents helpful strategies for planning and preparation. Meanwhile, free resources on Vocabulary.com can help. Continue reading...
To hoard is to squirrel stuff away, like gold bricks or candy wrappers. A horde is a crowd of people, usually, but it can also be a gang of mosquitoes, robots, or rabid zombie kittens. Continue reading...
When you're learning new words on Vocabulary.com, you're engaging in what psychologists call "distributed learning" and "practice testing," and a new study shows they're the best way to learn. Continue reading...
In a review for the New York Times Sunday Book Review of Karen Joy Fowler's "readably juicy and surreptitiously smart" We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Barbara Kingsolver describes the novel as "a story of Everyfamily in which loss engraves relationships, truth is a soulful stalker and coming-of-age means facing down the mirror, recognizing the shape-shifting notion of self." She might have added that it is an excellent read for anyone interested in words. Continue reading...
In this back-to-school season, teacher-generated word lists dominate the list-making airwaves. Check out these inspiring examples, or watch this short video to learn how to make your own. Continue reading...
"Keeping track of all those flashcards is such a hassle, but Vocabulary.com is hassle free," writes college sophomore Lili Borland in a review of Vocabulary.com for the student-run college admissions blog, The Prospect. Continue reading...
Here's our annual roundup of the books that were assigned the most by middle and high school teachers on Vocabulary.com. Which ones did your students read? Continue reading...