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ReadWorks. give you access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles. Explore reading passages, question sets, vocabulary, article-a-day, paired text, vocabulary, book study materials, ebooks and more.  To see the website click here.

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Make Your Own Wordle

You know what a Wordle is don't you?  Would you like to make your own and then share the link with your class to try?  Maybe it might be a word or term that might come up in the next chapter or for review or maybe just vocab.  You might be want to do this in your French or Spanish class.  To see how to make your own just click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.     If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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8 Ways to Grow Students’ Vocabulary

Angela Peery has a podcast and article about improving your students ' vocabulary.  To read article or listen to the podcast click here   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon  and maybe the ads below will help with some ideas.  

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New York Times Word of the Day

My son needs to get ready for the SAT and ACT so here is a great word of the day source.  To see it just click here hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are  making any amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon  and maybe the ads below will help with some ideas.  

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New York Times Word of the Day

 

Yesterday I posted about the S.A.T. Word of the Day Free on Amazon but you need Alexa.  If you don't have Alex then no worries.  The NYT has you covered.  They post the word of the day.  If you are studying for the S.A.T. you might want to download a list of words such as these 500 and make flash cards using the link I have at the bottom.   To see the NYT's word of the day click  here,  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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S.A.T. Word of the Day Free on Amazon

 

Getting something for free is always nice.  If you or your students are studying for the Scholastic Aptitude Test or better known as the  S.A.T. and if you own an Alexa then you can enable it free to respond to queries like “Alexa, start SAT Word of the Day.” If you are studying for the S.A.T. you might want to download a list of words such as these 500 and make flash cards using the link I have at the bottom.  To see the amazon site click here,   hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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7 No Prep Vocabulary Ideas You Can Use Today

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The NY Times June Vocabulary Challenge

 

Middle and high school students are invited to write a 50-word story drawing from the list of 19 vocabulary words published in May, which you can find below. We look forward to reading your entries. Winning submissions will be added to this article at the end of June.  All entries are due by June 15.  The words are as follows:

You can see the article in the NY Times by clicking here.

French Vocabulary Games

 

If you are teaching French and would like some online vocabulary games for your students click here.

New York Times 15 Second Vocabulary Video Challenge

 

New York Times 8th Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Challenge

The New York Times invites middle and high school students to create a short video that defines or teaches any of the words in our Word of the Day collection. Contest Dates: Nov. 10-Dec. 15, 2020.

The good news for Canadians is that this contest is open to the whole world.  To see information about this contest click here.

This might be a great idea to do with your English class, ELL class or even in conjunction with your Media Arts class.  Below are a couple of the top videos from 2019.

Word Clouds

 

Yesterday I posted about "3 participation strategies for live video instruction".  One of the ideas is using Word Clouds.  I strongly suggest using Word Art.  I have posted in the past about Word Clouds.  Click here to see the previous posts.   To use Word Art click here.

Poetry Knowledge Organizer

If you are teaching poetry here is a nice handout (thanks Stuart Pryke) for your students or you can use as slide in class.  To see the organizer click here.

English-Spanish Vocabulary Quizzes

This site has quizzes to help you learn and review vocabulary in your Spanish class.  To see the website click here.

Letterbox - A Word Game

This is a simple word game that you can play against a friend.  You are given 9 letters and you try and make as many words as possible.  Simple.  To see the website click here.

Vocabulary Time-fillers

From their website "As much as we plan out our lessons in detail, we sometimes have a few minutes we need to fill. It’s not long enough to start a new topic, but we can (and should) fill it with meaningful activities. Check out this list of French vocabulary time-fillers so you won’t always end up playing hangman and tic-tac-toe!".  I am sure you could use these ideas in your Spanish classroom too.  To see some of the ideas click here.

Grade Proof

Before your students hand in their papers have them get it proofed for spelling, vocabulary and grammar for free by using the free version of Grade Proof.  To see the website click here.

According to AASL, "Don’t assume that Vocabulary.com is just another digital flashcard site. This innovative site uses an adaptive learning system to help users learn the most essential English words needed in academic and business environments. Users quickly begin building their vocabulary knowledge as the adaptive learning system questions, reviews, and leads users to word mastery. Fun example sentences and responses “with an attitude” help keep the users’ attention, along with the level and achievement badges that can be earned. Leaderboards keep track of top achieving students and schools, creating a challenging game-like environment. Customized vocabulary lists can be added and grouped by categories, such as literature, historical documents, and speeches."  To see the website click here. 

Accommodations and Hotels

This website has many different tabs to look at but I noticed this little vocab on Accommodations and Hotels.  I thought it might be appropriate as our French teacher was in the library talking to the grade 8 students about The French Trip.  Frederic has a nice set of common words that you might use on a trip as a vocab list.  To see the site click here.

Wordmaster

This is a pretty nice vocabulary game for your students.  To see it click here.

New York Times Vocabulary Contest

On Tuesday we had I posted about a contest about performing some of the Bard's work on Hamlet.  The New York Times is also running another contest in their Education section on "vocabulary".  Make a 15 second video on any word that has appeared in The NY Times Word of the Day section (click here to see some) and post your video on Instagram, Youtube, Vimeo etc.  You can read about the contest by clicking here.  This could be done as a class project in Media Arts or English class.