Jumpstart Word Learning with the Vocabulary.com Classroom Starter Kit
A step-by-step guide and best practices for getting started and ensuring success
One of the benefits of Vocabulary.com is how quickly teachers can set up classes and get students learning words through our game. But now, using a handy Classroom Starter Kit, we're hoping teachers will first review best practices and some of the game's in and outs as they get started using the game.
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Vocabulary Bowl
To Create a Culture of Word Learning, Get School Rivalries Going
Competition within a district fires up game play for all.
Last school year, we noted an interesting trend among the most successful schools playing in our annual Vocabulary Bowl: they were operating in an environment of district-wide play.
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Kick Off the School Year with Five Keys to Vocabulary Success
A fast and efficient way to boost literacy in your classroom.
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.
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Vocabulary Bowl
Want to Bump up Vocab Learning in Your Classroom? Set a Goal.
Students don't have to be winning the leaderboard to feel like champions.
Teachers: One of the best ways to motivate your students on Vocabulary.com is to show them evidence of their own success. But how do you define "success"? Set a goal. Here, we share eight strategies we've observed from real teachers using Vocabulary.com in their classrooms. The strategies can be used in schools and classrooms large and small, and range from goals for individual learners to leaderboards that put word learning in a national, and highly competitive, context.
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Vocabulary Bowl
Recently we were able to interview Jessica Conrad, a speech language pathologist and technology integration specialist with the Johnson County and Surrounding Schools district in Franklin, IN, who had just reviewed Vocabulary.com for her district website. Her review had highlighted a feature that might not jump out at you at first: hints.
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Share a Word From Our Dictionary in a Single Click!
Using the share button a social media message is only a click away
Did you know you can share words from the Vocabulary.com Dictionary on Facebook, Twitter and other social media with a single click? You can. Here's how.
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Vocabulary
If you chose word learning as your resolution this year on Vocabulary.com, it's time to take your resolution to the next level by checking out all the other great resources on the site.
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