Scholastic
Scholastic: Professional Development Tutorial: Increasing Vocabulary
This tutorial is a sample lesson plan from a Scholastic Red session on vocabulary development.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Vocabulary Tip: Build Associations
This screencast discusses how building associations between words increases vocabulary. It provides several examples on building successful associations using roots, parts of speech, prefixes and suffixes, and synonyms. Real Player is...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Personal Vocabulary Notebook
This site has a simple but direct approach to building your vocabulary. Keeping a special notebook of new words can increase vocabulary, assist memorization, and encourage good study and organization skills. L.11-12. 6 Vocabulary
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Greek Vocabulary
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart lesson contains several activities. History - students understand the chronology of Greek history and can organize events and people into major categories to explain historical...
World Food Programme
Free Rice: English Vocabulary
This vocabulary game helps students learn vocabulary and while earning free rice to feed the hungry. When they answer correctly, the next word gets more difficult and 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Teach Vocabulary by Building Background Knowledge
Students need to develop an extensive vocabulary to read with fluency. In turn, fluency in reading leads to increased comprehension. Fluency also comes from the written language of the reader since the student writes words he or she...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Five Areas of Instructional Improvement to Increase Academic Literacy
How can content-area, non-reading-specialist teachers contribute to academic literacy? They can incorporate these five techniques throughout their lessons: (1) provide explicit instruction and supported practice in effective...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Adolescent Literacy: What's Technology Got to Do With It?
Learn how technology tools can support struggling students and those with learning disabilities to acquire background knowledge and vocabulary, improve their reading comprehension, and increase their motivation for learning.
Hopelink
Word Bank Lesson Plan: Eastside Literacy Program
This word bank lesson plan offers the individual student the opportunity to increase their vocabulary.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Touch and Feel Box
Students will identify objects through their sense of touch and increase vocabulary skills by using describing words. Lesson plan for K-2nd grades.
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Word Sorts
Delve into a world of vocabulary building. This site offers a lesson plan for "word sorts." This simple but effective tool will increase your student's vocabulary skills.
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Man Injured at Fast Food Place
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Man Injured at Fast Food Place" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills....
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Freeway Chase Ends at Newsstand
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Freeway Chase Ends at Newsstand" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills....
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Better to Be Unlucky
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Better To Be Unlucky" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students can...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Food Fight Erupted in Prison
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Food Fight Erupted in Prison" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills....
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): A Missing Cat
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "A Missing Cat" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students can...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Book Him
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Book Him" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students can complete a...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Theft Occurs Everywhere
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Theft Occurs Everywhere" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Eggs and a Bunny
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Eggs and a Bunny" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students can...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Hotel Says Goodbye to Clean Couple
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Hotel Says Goodbye to Clean Couple" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): $100 Deposit
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "$100 Deposit" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students can...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): City Welcomes New Store and Its Owners
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled City Welcomes New store and Its Owners" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary...
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Mayor Denies Hit and Run Charge
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Mayor Denies Hit-and-Run Charge" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills....
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2): Gasoline Prices Hit Record High
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Gasoline Prices Hit Record High" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills....