Vocabulary

Vocabulary Strategies

• Four Vocabulary Strategies for High School Students
  http://litsite.alaska.edu/workbooks/readingvocabulary.html 
  
  

• Vocabulary Strategies
  http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/vocabulary.htm 
  (for additional analogies, see Science Analogies)
  
  

• Secondary Content Teacher Reading Strategies (scroll down to Vocabulary section)
  http://www.ops.org/reading/secondarystrat1.htm 
  
  

• Pre-Reading Organizer - Categorize vocabulary words based on prior knowledge and write an anticipation statement. (pdf file)
  

Online Practice

• Vocabulary University 
  http://www.vocabulary.com
  
  

• A.Word.A.Day
  http://www.wordsmith.org/words/today.html 
  
  

• Word Game of the Day
  http://www.m-w.com/game/ 
  
  

• Funster - Free registration
  http://www.funster.com/ 
  
  

• SAT and GRE Vocabulary 

  • SAT and GRE Games Online 

  • SAT Vocabulary links
    
    

• Create your own

  • Puzzlemaker - 
    http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com
    
    

  • EdHelper: Word Search Puzzles - create your own
    http://www.edhelper.com/wordfind.htm#optionsan 
    
    

  • Quia - $49/year subscription (30 day free trial)
    http://www.quia.com/ 
    Search shared activities (Click Popular Categories)
    
    

• Read/Write/Think - Lesson Plans
  http://www.readwritethink.org 

  • Vocabulary Lesson Plans

Online Resources and Tools

• Merriam-Webster Online - on-line Dictionaries, a Thesaurus, Word Games, a Word of the Day
  http://www.m-w.com/  (see OneLook: Dictionary Search for a list of additional Dictionaries)
  
  

• Online Rhyming Dictionary
  http://www.writeexpress.com/online2.html 
  
  

• Voycabulary - makes the words on any web page into links so that you can look them up with just a click!
  http://www.voycabulary.com/
  
  

• Wordsmyth - Use the Wordsmyth toolbar button to look up any word on any web page.
  http://www.wordsmyth.net 
  
  

• Visual Thesaurus - an interactive map showing the meaning of your word.
  No longer free - $39.95 CD or $19.95/year online version
  http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp 
  

Articles

• Visualizing Vocabulary  

• Teaching Vocabulary to Adolescents to Improve Comprehension 

Text Comprehension

Comprehension Strategies

• Background Knowledge:  Assessing and Building 

  • Assessment Example:  Anticipation Guide

  • Building Example:  Autobiography of ex-slave Gustavus Vassa

    • United Streaming Video "Slave Ship"

      • Use focus questions while watching video and discuss after

      • Student Generated Unanswered Questions

    • Read Primary Source Autobiography

  *From Discovery Education Classroom Resource Guide - May 2006
  
  
  

• Active Reading Strategies
  http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/active.htm 
  
  

• Summarizing - Main Idea, Details http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/
  summarize.html 
  
  

• Reading Strategies:  Scaffolding Students' Interaction with Text
  
  

• Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking
  
  

• Technology Integration Resources:  Strategies that Work
  http://www.mayer.cps.k12.il.us/Strategies_that_Work/
  STW.htm 
  
  

• Specific Reading Comprehension Strategies
  http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/
  reading.html 
  
  

• Strategies for Reading Comprehension - 27 Reading Strategies http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/
  
  

• Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
  http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=95 
  
  

• Before-During-After Framework:  When to use Specific Reading Strategies
  http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/
  bdaframe.html 
  
  

• SCORE: Graphic Organizers - http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm 
  
  

Lessons and  Web Based Activities

• Read/Write/Think 
  http://www.readwritethink.org 

  • Comprehension Lesson Plans
    
    

• Cyberguides Grades 9-12
  http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy912.html 
  
  

• Literary Grafatti - http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/
  student_material.asp?id=23 
  
  

• Internet Hunts 
  http://www.lttechno.com/links/hunts.html 
  
  

• WebQuests 
  http://webquest.org/ 
  
  

• Weblogs
  http://www.lttechno.edublogs.org/ 
  
  

• Wiki - http://pbwiki.com/ 
  Example:  http://webtools.pbwiki.com/ 
  

eBooks

Reading Sources

• eBooks:  Project Gutenberg - online published books that are in the public domain or with copyright holder's permission http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ 
  
  

• Free eBook Library from the Microsoft Reader and Palm
  http://etext.virginia.edu/ebooks/ 
  
  

• Diesel eBooks - free (in MS Reader Format)
  http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/
  category.cgi?category=freesubject 
  
  

• Baen Free Library - Science Fiction Books
  http://www.baen.com/library/ 
  
  

• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and more
  http://bartleby.com/ 
  
  

Software

• Microsoft Reader for Desktop and Laptop PC
  http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/pc.asp 
  
  
• Microsoft Text to Speech - http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/
  downloads/tts.asp 
  
  
• Microsoft Encarta Pocket Dictionary - use the Lookup feature in Microsoft Reader to translate instantly — with a single click.
  http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/
  dictionaries.asp 
  
• Create Your Own Microsoft Reader eBooks
  http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/
  downloads/rmr.asp 

Reading Strategies with eBooks

• eBooks and Reading: eBook Reading Strategies
  http://drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/ebrs/intro.htm