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Atlanta Students Win Oodles of Books as Vocabulary Learning Prize
What's the best present to get a group of middle schoolers who have just learned a ton of new words? How about $500 worth of books that, thanks to their improved vocabularies, they'll be more easily able to enjoy and understand?
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Are you headed to Houston for the 70th annual conference of ASCD (Mar. 21-23)? So are we! Come visit us at the Exhibit Show at Booth #455, where we'll be having fun with the Vocabulary.com Challenge and giving away prizes. And on the morning of Monday the 23rd, our director of curriculum development, Georgia Scurletis, will be making a presentation on "Vocabulary Instruction in the Age of Blended Learning" (Level 3, Room 372B, 8–9 am).
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We have all seen this tired loop of "instruction": distribute word list, have students look up words, ask students to use the words in original sentences. While encouraging usage is never a bad idea, it's not realistic to expect students to pivot from definition to usage without guidance. We suggest ditching (or at least delaying) the idea of originality and instead asking students to model their sentences on usage examples written by those people who are especially skilled with using words: professional writers.
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Tips & Tricks
Vocab Blast: One Teacher's One Day Word Learning Challenge
Middle School Students Storm a Vocabulary Hill
A literacy coach set out to storm the Vocabulary.com school leaderboards by herself and ended reaching her goal with an army of middle schoolers at her side, setting off a blaze of word learning excitement at her school.
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What Got These Middle Schoolers So Excited About Vocab?
Competition is the name of the game
In heated competition, Corkscrew Middle in Naples, FL topped the Vocabulary.com school leaderboard for the month of November and were awarded the Vocabulary.com Champions' Banner to display in their school. What's their secret? Making competition fun.
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Dept. of Word Lists
Gut-Wrenching Vocab From "Ender's Game"
Psyched for the movie? Learn this list while you wait!
You've read the book. You can't wait for the movie. In the meantime, learn the vocab from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game in our list of the week.
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Under the HoodThe science of vocabulary building
Want to Learn Vocab? Try Two Methods That Actually Work
Psychologists call it "distributed practice "and "practice testing." We call it a game.
When you're learning new words on Vocabulary.com, you're engaging in what psychologists call "distributed learning" and "practice testing," and a new study shows they're the best way to learn.
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