Vocabulary Help
Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary to ELLs
Additional strategies to help with vocabulary acquisition
NY Times article: Enriching Academic Vocabulary: Strategies for Teaching Tier Two Words to E.L.L. Students
Interesting video
Article about best practices
A list of words familiar to most 5th graders
KIM method of vocabulary instruction
Online Dictionaries and Lists of Words/Phrases
Click on words for definitions and pronunciations
Thesaurus and Word Tools
Multi-faceted dictionary -- definitions from multiple sources, etymology, pronunciation, Word of the Day, etc.
Online visual dictionary
Lists of idioms to see
and hear
Read and hear American slang
Read and hear many famous proverbs in English
Online rhyming dictionary
Online Vocabulary Practice and Games
Work on vocab improvement while supporting the World Food Programme
Study many new words by grade level with videos
Fun way of self study for "the 100 words you should know" via games
Great site for self study
Suggestions for students
Vocabulary builder game
Lots of vocab-building activities
Many online learning games
Analyzes texts, creating word lists
Just the Word: a site that showcases various uses of a word with many examples
ESL Vocab Games
Online vocab games
For word building, grammar, and reading comprehension
Printable vocab worksheets