Articles about Books

Check out our shortlist of texts to read with your students before, during, and after Women's History Month, each paired with a ready-made vocabulary list. Continue reading...

Enrich your students' understanding of this defining chapter in modern history with curated vocabulary lists that support the texts you're teaching. 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...

Here's our shortlist of books written by and about people of Hispanic heritage, each paired with a ready-made vocab list that you can use to create a variety of word-learning activities. Continue reading...

Graphic novels add variety to classroom reading and provide fodder for class discussions. Here's a selection of vocabulary lists that will support your students' reading in this genre — plus, acclaimed graphic novelist Svetlana Chmakova gives Vocabulary.com an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the process of creating these works of art. Continue reading...

In our summer reading series, Vocabulary.com gets up close and personal with the authors of some of our favorite books about summer. In the final installment we talk with author and editor Lamar Giles, whose middle grade and young adult novels deserve a spot at the top of your students' summer reading lists. Continue reading...