Today
a reader,
Tomorrow a leader.
by W. Fusselman |
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Words,
Words, and More Words |
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Simply put,
vocabulary means all of the words we know.
We use these words to communicate. The New York
State Education Department delineated the ELA
learning standards into four areas.
They are reading, writing, listening, and
speaking. |
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The Four
Types of Vocabulary |
Listening
Development of our listening vocabulary
begins from the time we are born. These
are the words we hear day in and day out.
They are the words we need to know to
understand others. |
Speaking
Development of our speaking vocabulary
begins from the time we are born. These are
the words we learn through listening and
modeling others. They are the words we use
to communicate with others. |
Reading
Our reading vocabulary are the words we
see in print when we read anything. In order
to understand what we read we must know
the vocabulary words that we are reading. |
Writing
Our writing vocabulary are the words that
we use when we write, be it creative writing,
letter writing, or essay writing. Writing can
take many forms. |
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Did You
Know... |
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"The
National Research Council recently concluded
that vocabulary
development is a fundamental goal for students
in the early grades." |
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"An
average student in grades 3 through 12 is likely
to learn approximately 3,000 new vocabulary
words each year, assuming he or she reads
between 500,000 and a million running words of
text a school year." |
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"Research
has shown that children who read even ten
minutes a day outside of school experience
substantially higher rates of vocabulary growth
between second and fifth grade than children who
do little or no reading." |
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Ways to
develop vocabulary |
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Vocabulary Games |
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Learning
Vocabulary Can be Fun!
This educational, fun
site is easy to use. It contains links to games
such as Hangman, crosswords, word searches,
quizzes, and matching games to develop
vocabulary. |
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Fake Out
This Houghton-Mifflin site
contains vocabulary activities for children in
grades K-8. |
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What's the Word?
This vocabulary game by
Funbrain.com shows the children a picture and
they have to click on the word that best
describes the picture. Immediate feedback is
given whether the answer is correct or
incorrect. If an incorrect answer is chosen the
correct answer is displayed. |
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Vocabulary
Pinball
This site by Play Kids
Games.com is designed by parents of young
children. The goal of the site is to provide a
web site where parents can find fun games to
help their children learn basic skills. First
through fourth grade words are available. There
is a link for teachers where they can develop
their own pinball game using classroom
vocabulary. |
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English
Vocabulary Games with Pictures
There are 9 sets of words
with 7 games for each set. All of the games use
words along with pictures. These are
particularly useful for ESL children. |
Vocabulary Drill for Kids
These games are designed
for children in grades K-12. Children are given
a sentence and are provided with 3 possible
selections for the word in boldface print in the
sentence. Students receive immediate feedback.
If their answer is incorrect they are given the
correct answer. |
Black Dog's Word Games
Find a wide variety of
word games to play, ranging from
anagrams, to crossword puzzles, to word jumbles,
and much, much more. |
Houghton-Mifflin Vocabulary
These are worksheets
for grades 1-5. |
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Houghton-Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary
Choose a level from 1
to 8 and find many word and vocabulary
activities. They range from word finds, letter
and word cards, and word puzzles.
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Word Find
This Houghton-Mifflin site
contains vocabulary and spelling practice for
grades 1-8. |
Fish Tanks 1
Fill a tank
with tropical fish using prefixes, roots, and
suffixes. |
Fish Tanks 2
Fill a tank
with tropical fish using your knowledge of
plurals. |
Synonym Challenge
Try to identify the
correct synonyms in a race against time.
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Future City
Build a city of
the future by classifying words in a series. |
Antonym Challenge
Try to identify the
correct antonyms in a race against time.
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Analogy Challenge
Try to complete
the analogies in a race against time. |
Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop
This sites provides a
wide array of vocabulary activities, including
hidden word, matching, and crossword puzzles.
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Dino Hunters
Find all the different dinosaurs using
dictionary. |
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Online
Dictionaries |
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