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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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Vocabulary Bowl
Tips & Tricks
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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Tips & Tricks
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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Vocabulary Bowl
Tips & Tricks
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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Vocabulary Bowl
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The New York Times + Vocabulary.com = Enlightened Students
The New York Times Learning Network partners with Vocabulary.com
Here at Vocabulary.com, we have always believed that one of the best ways to improve your vocabulary while learning about world events is by regularly reading a newspaper like The New York Times. That's why we are especially proud to announce our partnership with The New York Times Learning Network . This partnership will further boost students' literacy skills by bringing Vocabulary.com's word-learning power to students accessing The Times' fresh and engaging content on a daily basis.
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Vocabulary.com News
While many of our fellow Vocabularians have finished the school year and are heading out for their summer breaks, we here at Vocabulary.com are hard at work making improvements to the site.
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Vocabulary.com News
We've redesigned the look and added some new features to Vocabulary Lists to make it easier to find and store the lists you most want to use.
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Vocabulary.com News
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Students Abandon "Call of Duty" for Vocab Learning
A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Uncovers Why
Writing in Sunday's Houston Chronicle, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Lisa Falkenberg shone a spotlight on the hundreds of Houston students who got hooked on Vocabulary.com, as one "campus-wide obsession" turned into a recipe for academic success.
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