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Three Steps to an Instant Vocabulary Curriculum
Focus on Vocabulary to Align with the Common Core
Looking for a quick and easy way to include vocabulary instruction in your curriculum? These three steps will help you save prep and classroom time, differentiate instruction, and create a vocabulary learning experience students say is addictive and fun.
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Video Round-Up: Getting More Out of Vocabulary.com
Short, useful videos now all in one location
Want to get more out of Vocabulary.com? Check out this roundup of useful "how to" videos.
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Announcements
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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SAT tutor Leigh Cousins, MS describes her summer campaign "to get [her] students AND their parents" to learn ten words on Vocabulary.com every morning as they eat breakfast.
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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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Did you know that the Vocabulary.com Dictionary includes pronunciation? Watch this short video for a look at how this works.
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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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