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Help your students better comprehend primary source documents
Here's how to use Vocabulary.com to prepare your students to read and interpret primary documents.
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Houston's St. Vincent de Paul School Tops the Leaderboard in June
Students respond enthusiastically to new summer reading program
The school year officially ended for students at Houston's St. Vincent de Paul School, but rising sixth, seventh and eighth grade students together mastered 11,349 words in the month of June.
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Success Stories
California's Rialto School District Tackles New Literacy Standards, Gets Instant Results
When a teacher at California's Rialto High School piloted Vocabulary.com, she was looking for new and efficient ways to teach vocabulary to her students. Her instant success inspired her entire school district to adopt Vocabulary.com to help meet new literacy standards.
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How a Florida Middle School Made Headlines for Word-Learning Success
Margate Middle School parlayed its success in the Vocabulary Bowl into local media coverage.
Florida's Margate Middle School needed help with vocabulary instruction. When they started implementing Vocabulary.com, the students' success built excitement for learning and also made headlines in the local media.
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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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Success Stories
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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