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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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When I was studying Spanish and had gotten to the point where our assignments consisted of reading real books, I kept a well-thumbed dictionary on my desk. Every paragraph seemed to contain several words that I had to look up, which was tedious and slow. Our wise teacher kept telling us that we didn't need to do that—you don't actually have to know what every word means to understand the text.
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Words can be thought of as historical artifacts; they carry with them a stamp of time and place, and sometimes it's important to take the long view and think about words outside their immediate context and use a broader perspective.
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The New York Times Learning Network has been running a Summer Reading Contest for students, and each week a different literacy organization judges the competition. This week, Vocabulary.com is honored to serve as the judge. Students, submit an entry and you could be a winner!
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List of the Week: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series
You've seen the movie...no learn the Vocabulary Lists!
Summer is the perfect time to delve into not just L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but the entire "Oz" cycle. As you read, enrich your vocabulary by learning interactive word lists based on these timeless stories.
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As children the world over are released from school for summer vacations and long, lazy afternoons lost in good books, journalist Annie Murphy Paul elaborates on what is happening in our brains when we read in this way.
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Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
Despite its popularity among teens, you're not going to find class sets of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series in the English department book rooms across the country. Even if most teachers don't incorporate trendy literature into their class syllabus, it doesn't mean that they can't take advantage of the excitement of the fad and harness it to teach some valuable lessons about writing, editing, and word choice.
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