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Step Aside, SportsCenter! Make Way for the Vocabulary Bowl Update
Introducing the Vocabulary Bowl "Top 20 Round Up" telecast.
We're introducing the monthly Vocabulary Bowl "Top 20 Round Up," in which our team of intrepid vocab-casters call out the achievements of middle and high schools making names for themselves on the national and state leaderboards.
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Extra, Extra! Vocab Bowl Success Makes Great Local News
Follow three simple steps to get community-wide recognition for your school.
Publicizing students' success in the Vocabulary Bowl within your local community is a great way to reward and motivate students while boosting your school's profile. To help you make it happen, we've created a PR Toolkit for educators and school administrators that breaks the publicity process down into easy-to-follow steps.
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Schools across the country, like Margate Middle School in Florida, Midlothian Middle School in Virginia, and Chavez High School in Texas, have received great coverage in their local media about their success in the Vocabulary Bowl. If you're an administrator or educator, you can get your school in on the action by sharing your school's achievements in the Bowl with your local media. Here's how you can make it happen.
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How Did an Eighth Grader Master 5000+ Words in a Single School Year?
By finding the "extraordinary" within.
Going into the Vocabulary Bowl last year, no one could have predicted how seriously Obehi Obano would take word learning. A typical eighth grader, Obehi had to work extra hard in math to make the honor roll, and listed among her favorite activities hanging out with her friends, watching "Full House," and going to the beach. But, when it came to vocabulary, "typical" Obehi was not. After she got hooked on the game, she mastered more than 5,000 words during the school year. That's more than 600 words per month, 150 per week, and an impressive 20 per day.
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Nothing's "Quixotic" About This School's Vocabulary Bowl Ambitions
If they can "dream the impossible dream," so can you!
This year's Vocabulary Bowl has just kicked off, and already one school has big dreams. A teacher celebrates his school's strong early showing with a video. We challenge you to watch it without smiling.
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The 2015-16 Vocabulary Bowl Kicks Off!
Preseason is over. Let the yearlong word learning competition begin.
Teachers, administrators, and students, it's go time! Following the September "preseason," the second annual Vocabulary Bowl officially kicks off on October 1st, 2015 and will run through April 30, 2016. If you aren't signed up to play yet, this is a great time to get in on the action.
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Three Steps to Schoolwide Vocab Learning
How teacher Erin Vanek gets her colleagues hooked on Vocabulary.com.
If you're a teacher using Vocabulary.com, a great way to bump up your students' word learning is to take Vocabulary.com schoolwide. Class-to-class competition will create a word learning culture within your school, and your students' Words Mastered numbers will climb. Here's how one teacher made that happen within her school.
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