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This article tells about 10 free internet tools that can be used to build vocabulary skills. These tools can be used in a variety of classrooms for any grade level.

I absolutely love the "combine vocabulary learning and social service" part of this article. The website, freerice.com, is an amazing way to motivate the student to practice their vocabulary. Every time the user gets a vocabulary definition correct the website donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations World Food Programme! I remember using this years ago when someone posted it to a social media site, and I stayed on it until I'd gotten 600 pieces of rice donated. I definitely want to do this as a fun activity with my student. Thanks for posting this!

Excellent choice. Hoping folks use these tips and try them out when they are applicable.

This article focuses on the different levels of vocabulary and what they mean. Also, the article talks about what effective vocabulary instruction is and how it should be used. It gives many different ideas for strategies that could be used to help teach vocabulary to students such as graphic organizers, academic vocabulary journals and quick writes. The article gives examples for both elementary and secondary students.

You might include the title to pique other students' interests...hard to make a decision about it if the link is all we see. Your description is very helpful.

An article discussing the results of a study investigating the effectiveness of combining technology and traditional vocabulary strategies in L2 vocabulary acquisition. Overall results point towards technology (specifically Mywordtools) integration being beneficial in L2 vocabulary learning

Study of Development of Vocabulary

How does this seem like it would be useful? Why would someone read it? Is it applicable to your student at this time?

Study of four teacher's and their strategies used to enhance vocabulary development during read alouds.

is this relevant for older students or just relevant for primary kids?

building students' vocabulary

How old are the kids? What kinds of ideas are suggested?

There are an estimated 88,500 word families in printed school English. So how do we, as literacy teachers, determine the most valuable, appropriate vocabulary for each student?

Seems impossible, doesn't it? This is often why folks who argue for a holistic or sociocultural approach to teaching and learning start with what the child knows and build from there.

This website has metacognitive strategies that enhances reading comprehension and vocabulary with students in the 3rd grade. This website also talks about the importance and instruction of metacognitive strategies.

This article shows how a school started to include seven literacy strategies to help them improve their academic achievement. The seven strategies include read-alouds, KWL charts, graphic organizers, vocabulary instruction, writing to learn, structured note taking, and reciprocal teaching. The article gives a brief example on how they defined the strategies and examples of the strategies in a classroom.

This article presents a strategy to use with upper elementary or middle school students to help them use the context of a word to find out the meaning. The authors combined two strategies of using context clues and semantic gradients to help students make the vocabulary-to-comprehension connection explicit.

How to build children's vocabulary

When I click here, it doesn't connect. Try again if you get a chance.

This article provides a seven step approach to spelling instruction that encourages word study based on the words students experience in their daily writing activities. It focuses on shifting spelling instruction from a focus on the number of words spelled correctly to developing an understanding of how words work.

I love this article. Spelling is so much more than memorizing and the author is right when she says that the words the student don't master on Friday are forgotten by Monday. That is why we work on blends, digraphs, onsets, and rimes. I also love the part about how spelling affects self-esteem and vocabulary as well. Awesome information!

This article really got me thinking about spelling and how it affects a students writing confidence. I like how it is an analyzing of words approach rather than just memorization. I think the chart fort student analyzing could be useful but I might change the wording to be more kid friendly.

This article shares the idea of having students choose the words they would like to learn as a strategy to teach vocabulary. The students put their chosen words in a box to review as a class.

Word Study Strategy

And...I wonder what the benefit is or who it applies to or why we might use it...so many questions. Perhaps you could add a few bullet points or highlights to help others see if it is useful for their context.

Article for Advanced Literacy Practices on how prior knowledge impacts comprehension 

Middle School Literacy Guide. This guide introduces and explains the following: Workshops in reading and writing. Writer's Notebook. Writing and publishing process. A nice overall glimpse of strategies.

Literacy strategies that worked in a troubled high school in CA. Read-alouds, K-W-L charts, Graphic Organizers, Vocab Instruction, Writing to Learn, Structured Note-Taking and Reciprocal Teaching.

These strategies are common across grades, it is nice to see the specific application to a group of students and I hope folks who have a different concentration will look this over as well.

This study helped students learn to spell words that they had often misspelled by putting the words that sound the same but are spelled similarly into the same wordlist. They also looked at student writing and worked together in small groups.

Interesting approach to grouping 2nd graders. When targeting both writing and reading instruction, spelling achievement lags far behind reading achievement. Not as important in K-1 groups. Article provided insight on strategy choices I may choose for my student.