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New Champions' Banner for School Leaderboard Wins
Designed to take pride of place in any trophy display.
With school leaderboards more active than ever, we're instituting a new reward for play: a Champions banner for monthly school leaderboard winners, emblazoned with the winning school's name.
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Check Out Our New Home for Morphology Resources!
We're adding new lists to it all the time
Here at Vocabulary.com, we've just created a new home for morphology resources, "Morphology & Roots," where you can one-stop-shop for Vocabulary Lists that teach affixes and roots.
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Vote for Vocabulary.com to present at SXSWedu with The New York Times Learning Network and a teacher from High Technology High School on "Text-Mining the News for Student Literacy"!
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Who Says Teens Don't Use Big Words?
NY Times Summer Reading Contest Winners prove them wrong
As judge last week for The Fourth Annual New York Times Summer Reading Contest, we at Vocabulary.com were impressed by the ease and fluency with which teen writers used specific and powerful words.
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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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Vocabulary.com to Present at ISTE Conference
On moving vocabulary instruction into the hands of students
Vocabulary.com will present at the Annual Conference & Exposition of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) at the San Antonio Convention Center next week, on moving vocabulary instruction out of the classroom and into the hands of students.
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Dictionary Now Shows Spelling and Pronunciation Variants
Potato, pot-AH-to: It's even easier to call the whole thing off
Today, we add a new dimension to the word-learner's resources in our Dictionary: a "word forms" section of the page where you can see how a word's spelling or pronunciation varies.
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