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Last week, ninth grade English teacher Marc Ginsberg gave a talk on using web-based vocabulary instruction tools to align middle and high school curricula with the Common Core. Check out his presentation here!
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Vocabulary Shout-Out: William Styron for "Malingerer"
Ten vocabulary words in a single sentence!
The title character in William Styron's novel The Confessions of Nat Turner uses words with Biblical heft; so many times, in fact, we were able to create a Vocabulary List from one sentence alone.
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Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexicon
2013 Spelling Bee: Vocabulary Questions in the Spotlight
It's time once again for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and the big news going into this year's competition is the inclusion of vocabulary questions along with the traditional spelling questions. Even though the new multiple-choice questions testing contestants' knowledge of definitions will only appear in the off-stage computerized portions of the Bee, it's still a controversial shift in format.
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Lists featured on Vocabulary.com were created or vetted by the Vocabulary.com curriculum development team to meet a certain standard of list quality. Here's six steps to making your own lists ready to share.
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"Lean in," thanks to the title of a new book by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, has become "the idiom of the moment," Motoko Rich writes in the New York Times, adding "the phrase seems to have taken on a life of its own." But where did all of this "leaning in" come from?
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List of the Week: Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake"
Four new Vocabulary Lists!
Learn four new Vocabulary Lists from Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake: Chapters 1-3, Chapters 4-6, Chapters 7-9, Chapters 10-12.
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And The Man Booker Prize (for Vocabulary) Goes To...
Considerable Literary Merit Aside.
In anticipation of the announcement of the winner of The Man Booker International Prize this Wednesday, we're awarding our own prizes to the nominees today. But don't look here for an analysis of literary merit. We're considering these writers only in terms of their usefulness to vocabulary learners.
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