The Academy Awards are a cornucopia of couture, celebrities and cinema! Whether you're writing a screenplay or a ransom note, your vocabulary can be blockbuster stuff. Here's a list of terms you're most likely to hear on Oscar night. Continue reading...
Explore dozens of titles recommended for a wide range of readers, each paired with curated vocab lists, adaptive activities, and self-grading assessments. Continue reading...
Unless you're a resident of the Lego Movie's Bricksburg where "Everything is Awesome," you may have noticed that awesome is...well...not quite as awesome as it used to be. In fact, says Tim Askew, writing for Inc., awesome has become so overused, it's "inescapable, like verbal kudzu choking out the variegated richness of the English language." Continue reading...
You'll find words you don't see every day woven into the tapestry of Isabel Allende's bestselling and critically-acclaimed The House of the Spirits. Learn them with five new interactive vocabulary lists drawn from the novel. Continue reading...
As you read Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning classic The God of Small Things, learn words like jettison, mesmerize, and pariah with five Vocabulary Lists drawn from the novel. Continue reading...
Houston's Chavez High School did the unthinkable, pulling off their second consecutive victory in the 2015-2016 Vocabulary Bowl by surpassing more than 23,000 schools from around North America. The school celebrated with a special ceremony today, as students were presented with the Vocabulary Bowl trophy, medals for top students, and a special proclamation from the Mayor's office congratulating them on their impressive achievement. Continue reading...
Schools across the country, like Margate Middle School in Florida, Midlothian Middle School in Virginia, and Chavez High School in Texas, have received great coverage in their local media about their success in the Vocabulary Bowl. If you're an administrator or educator, you can get your school in on the action by sharing your school's achievements in the Bowl with your local media. Here's how you can make it happen. Continue reading...
A mantle is a covering, like a robe. But a mantel is a ledge over a fireplace. If Little Red Riding Hood tosses her cloak on the shelf above her fireplace, she has a mantle on the mantel. Continue reading...
This Mother's Day, show Mom a little love (and a whole lot of appreciation) by tweeting or posting our Mother's Day video thank you card — a vocabulary list brought to life. Continue reading...