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Resources
Teacher Resources

All America Reads Vocabulary Strategies. Instructions for teachers in incorporating vocabulary strategies into context reading activities.

Annenberg On-line Course for Teachers. Provides lessons, activities, and video to help teacher learn how to effectively use vocabulary instruction in their classroom.

Educational Press.
In addition to the pre-made word lists, you can edit and type your own vocabulary lists and quickly print flashcards, matching, and many other practice activities for students.

The Educator's Reference Desk Language Arts lesson plans and activities for grades 4-12.

The Literacy Web. Includes vocabulary cartoons, word play, writing den, instructional tips, and an index of other vocabulary web sites.

Reading in the Content Areas: Study Guide and Vocabulary Activities Outstanding vocabulary building activities. Includes specific ideas for English Language Learners.

Sarasota County Public School District, FL; Strategies for Interdisciplinary Reading include vocabulary, concept cards, photographed vocabulary, previewing words in context, semantic feature analysis, and word sort using concept cards.

Vocabulary Learning Strategies. Fourteen ways students can build vocabulary.

Word Tiers for Teachers. An interactive site to help teacher identify tier 2 and tier 3 words and create word lists.

 

 

 

 

Student Practice Sites

Academic Vocabulary Games. Created by the Tennessee Department of Education.

BBC Word Master. Fun flash game to give students practice with words.

Dave's ESL Cafe. A resource for students of all ages learning English and for teachers of English as a foreign language. Features Idiom, Slang, and Phrasal Verb pages, a Job Center, and discussion groups for students and teachers.

Language Guide. A great way to build word recognition for students who speak languages other than English. Pictures with audio pronunciation.

Merriam-Webster Word Central  A Student Dictionary  with all of the features of the paper version and more.

Quia Activities Teacher created on-line practice activities for students. Includes synonym and antonyms, homonyms, idioms, roots, prefixes and suffixes, grammar and more.
Surf the Net for Kids. For Students aged 8-17 with free on-line games and puzzles.

Vocabulary Raceway PowerPoint Game

Vocabulary University. Interactive vocabulary puzzles and Latin and Greek root activities separated into 3 levels.

Word Focus: Vocabulary Resources to Enhance your Word Skills. Focuses on Latin and Greek roots. The site contains an abundance of activities, including word units with definitions, self-scoring quizzes, word quests, logo focus on etymology, and word sources.

Printables
Academic Vocabulary List by Jim Burke.

Printable Vocabulary Development for Older Students by Bill McBride. Provides blackline masters for numerous vocabulary building strategies in all content areas.

Additional Printable Vocabulary Development for Older Students by Bill McBride. More blackline masters, including compare/contrast Y and W charts, prediction ABC charts, anticipation guides, sentence synthesis and more.