Students Achieve "Unheard Of" Literacy Gains at Ohio's Woodward Park Middle School
Teachers were amazed at how Vocabulary.com helped disadvantaged students.
At Woodward Park Middle School in Columbus, Ohio, teachers were looking for a way to help out struggling students with literacy and turn around their scores on standardized tests. By adding Vocabulary.com as a literacy center in the language arts classroom, they saw immediate results.
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Connecticut's Dodd Middle School Sees "Unbelievable Success" in Student Scores
School sees rapid progress on standardized tests and shoots up the Vocabulary Bowl leaderboard.
When Dodd Middle School in Cheshire, Connecticut wanted to raise scores on a test that judges students' reading comprehension, they turned to Vocabulary.com for help. Their subsequent success was, in the words of one language arts teacher, "unbelievable."
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How Houston ISD Boosted Literacy District-Wide and Dominated the Vocabulary Bowl
District schools built a culture of word learning and got students in the competitive spirit.
The Houston Independent School District has made boosting literacy a district-wide goal, and to that end, it has rolled out Vocabulary.com to all middle school and high school students in the district. In the process, Houston ISD schools have dominated the nationwide Vocabulary Bowl.
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Maryland's Buck Lodge Middle School Makes Dramatic Lexile Gains
School's big boost in test scores inspires district-wide literacy efforts.
When Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi, MD used Vocabulary.com to improve its lexile scores, their success inspired a district-wide adoption among Title 1 schools to achieve literacy goals.
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Zanesville High School Focuses on Vocabulary to Close the Achievement Gap
Teachers say the "more nuanced" and "in depth" approach is already paying off.
Follow the story of an Ohio high school addressing reading deficits behind the achievement gap with a targeted vocab intervention using Vocabulary.com. Students are having fun with the game and teachers love the progress they are making.
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