Resources
Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary
Four Essential Components of Vocabulary
(Graves, 2016)
Provide rich and varied language experiences.
Teach individual words
Teach word-learning strategies
Foster word consciousness
Resources for Teaching/Learning Vocabulary
Flashcard Factory was designed to transform the way students engage with vocabulary. When you play Flashcard Factory students pair up and work together to create dynamic and engaging flashcards. Students collaborate to illustrate and define terms, making learning vocab an active and social experience! Flashcard Factory is free to use and works with Google Apps for Education.
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This comprehensive dictionary site has many useful resources for vocabulary, online "Word of the Day," quizzes, games and even a feature where students can create their own user account and make word lists of words they want to learn or practice.
Snappywords.com is a popular resource for everything you need to know about the English language. Students of schools and universities come here to find useful synonyms and antonyms for their essays term papers and research papers.
Visuwords(TM) online graphical dictionary allows users to look up words and find meanings and associations visually.
Build or use premade flash card decks to study vocabulary!
Whether you’re looking up a specific word or just browsing, at Vocabulary.com, you’ll find a universe of friendly explanations and fun activities designed to educate and entertain.
Looking for a visual thesaurus? Then Lexipedia is for you. Simple to use. Just type in any word and Lexipedia instantly displays the target word along with other words. It also color-codes the words by both parts of speech and relationships. As you hover over a word, a complete definition is displayed.
Word Cloud Generators
Google Teaching Templates & Resources
Teachers: To use the Google Slide templates below, click the icon in the upper right of preview to open the presentation in a new window. The presentation will open in Presentation Mode to view.
To make a copy so that you can edit and use with your students, click the Gear icon on the bottom of the presentation screen and choose "Open Editor." This will open into the Google Slides editor, where you can click on File > Make a copy to save a copy of this to your own Google Drive.
Vocabulary Spinner
