Did you know that with Vocabulary.com, it's quick and easy to make interactive Vocabulary Lists? You supply the words; we supply the definitions and example sentences. Or if you're pulling vocabulary out of a text, we'll build the list from soup to nuts.
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With the school year starting up, it's the best time to map out how best to make vocabulary mastery an integral part of your curriculum. 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...
We've got you covered when it comes to summer reading. Peruse these 70 selected books that we've paired with curated vocabulary lists — including titles for middle grade through high school readers, from classics to popular YA and graphic novels. Continue reading...
It's month two of the 2016 - 2017 Vocabulary Bowl Season, and things are heating up. Newcomers and former champs are giving it their all in the quest for word domination, and the Spotlight features Division III. Continue reading...
Appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Network show "Master Class," Alicia Keys spoke about the one word she wants to excise from her vocabulary. (Watch this video to find out what it is.) Continue reading...
Follow this week's news coverage from a vocabularian's perspective by learning 10 words from this week's New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post coverage. Continue reading...
In an editorial for the Chicago Tribune yesterday, columnist Eric Zorn took issue with the College Board's inclusion of obsequious in a list of "low-frequency words that would be unlikely to be assessed directly as words-in-context questions on the redesigned SAT." Continue reading...
Which of the Top Books of 2019 did you teach? All of the classics you'd expect are here, plus a diverse array of more recent titles that got us wondering, are these "Top 10 Contemporary Titles" the new classics? Continue reading...
Get ready for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington by learning vocabulary from the "I Have a Dream" speech Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered that day, as well as vocabulary from King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Continue reading...