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Promote Word Learning Within Your School!
Kids will be inspired to learn even more when they see their names "up in lights."
If you are a principal or other school leader, here are some ways you can make vocabulary learning a priority at your school by getting students excited about playing the Vocabulary Bowl.
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Here are some ideas about how you can inspire the students at your school to get involved with the Vocabulary Bowl, setting achievable goals that will provide incentives to keep them going on the road to vocabulary mastery.
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Jumpstart Word Learning with the Vocabulary.com Classroom Starter Kit
A step-by-step guide and best practices for getting started and ensuring success
One of the benefits of Vocabulary.com is how quickly teachers can set up classes and get students learning words through our game. But now, using a handy Classroom Starter Kit, we're hoping teachers will first review best practices and some of the game's in and outs as they get started using the game.
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To Create a Culture of Word Learning, Get School Rivalries Going
Competition within a district fires up game play for all.
Last school year, we noted an interesting trend among the most successful schools playing in our annual Vocabulary Bowl: they were operating in an environment of district-wide play.
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Kick Off the School Year with Five Keys to Vocabulary Success
A fast and efficient way to boost literacy in your classroom.
With the school year starting up, it's the best time to map out how best to make vocabulary mastery an integral part of your curriculum.
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One Teacher's Brilliant Summer Reading Hack
Reinventing a tired summer reading assignment while boosting student vocab
When middle school literature teacher Kathy Zimbaldi first pitched the idea of Vocabulary.com to her principal at St. Vincent de Paul School in Houston, TX, she was pretty sure the tool would bring meaningful word learning to the literature curriculum. What she didn't realize? It would also help her hack Summer Reading...and land her students a David-beats-Goliath feel good monthly leaderboard win.
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Want to Bump up Vocab Learning in Your Classroom? Set a Goal.
Students don't have to be winning the leaderboard to feel like champions.
Teachers: One of the best ways to motivate your students on Vocabulary.com is to show them evidence of their own success. But how do you define "success"? Set a goal. Here, we share eight strategies we've observed from real teachers using Vocabulary.com in their classrooms. The strategies can be used in schools and classrooms large and small, and range from goals for individual learners to leaderboards that put word learning in a national, and highly competitive, context.
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