Directory of Vocabulary Resources

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This category contains sites that provide educational tips, guides, and activities to help kids improve their vocabulary.

Sites might include vocabulary games, word puzzles, explanations of prefixes and suffixes, derivatives, or origins.

Subcategories

• Slang

Resources in This Category

• Dolch Word List

  http://www.come-over.to/homeschool/dolch.htm
  A flash-card type vocabulary list of 220 common words.

• Fake Out

  http://www.eduplace.com/fakeout/
  Choose a word and try to guess its definition. Words grouped by age and ability levels.

• iVocabulary.com

  http://www.ivocabulary.com/
  Offers tests to build students' vocabularies, as practice for the SAT, or for ESL students. Difficulty increases with each correct answer.

• Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun

  http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
  Hangman, matching, word search, and vocabulary trivia to help students learn vocabulary.

• SAT Vocabulary Tests on Vocab Test.com

  http://www3.vocabtest.com/
  A series of interactive tests designed to help students learn standard SAT words.

• Spatial Concepts

  http://www.meddybemps.com/SpatialConcepts/
  Uses colorful images to define spatial concepts such as over and under, between, and big and little.

• StudyBeans: Vocabulary

  http://www.studybeans.com/vocabulary/
  Contains flashcards and quizzes.

• Vocabulary Drill for Kids

  http://www.edu4kids.com/index.php?TB=10&page=15
  Uses one less familiar word in a sentence, then provides three possible definitions. Kids use sentence context to choose the correct meaning.

• What's the Word

  http://funbrain.com/vocab/index.html
  Online game to learn reading and expand vocabulary. From Funbrain.com.

• Word Traps

  http://www.stage-door.org/stampact/traps.html
  Provides an alphabetical list of words which are often misused. Includes definition and corrected usage.

 

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