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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Working on Vocabulary - Resources

A collection of resources after Judith Maginnis Kuster

www.communicationdisorders.com

o  Free Rice - donates 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program for each vocabulary word you get right!
o  World of Words vocabulary games by Lonn Swanson (www.quia.com/pages/worldowords.html)
o  Online version of TwentyQuestions - (come.to/20Q)
o  VocabularyUniversity (www.vocabulary.com/) has many activities such as Fill-in-the-Blanks, Definition Matching, Synonym & Antonym Encounter, Word Find and Crossword for older children and adults.
o  Cricker (crickler.com/crickler.html) - a new type of crossword puzzle that gears itself to your level.
o  There are a variety of types of Hangman available online.
§   Quia's Online Autumn Hangman (www.quia.com/hm/1726.html) - an easy version, available in "Flash" or "html" version.
§   KidsCom Hangman (www.kidscom.com/games/hangman/hangman.html)
§   Genuine Class Hangman (www.genuineclass.com/games/hangman.html)
§   Animals Hangman (www.eslcafe.com/hangman/animals1.cgi)
§   Plants Hangman (www.eslcafe.com/hangman/plants1.cgi)
§   Hangman Games for ESL Students (www.manythings.org/hm/) - has many subject choices in both CGI (older) and Flash (newer) versions.
§   SuperKids hangman (superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/hangman/) includes idioms, SAT vocabulary words, TV shows from different decades, U.S. Presidents, State Capitals, and much more!
§   Triumph Hangman (http://triumphpc.com/hangman/) uses challenging words.
§   The Problem Site (www.theproblemsite.com/games/hangman.asp) The vocabularly is not easy! My first word was "approximating."
§   Bill's Games Hangman (www.billsgames.com/hangman/index.html) allows choice of topic, number of guesses, and a happy face or growing plant as the "hangman." The clinician can even enter a word for the client to "discover." This one rates 4 stars!
§   Stay Afloat (www.funbrain.com/funbrain/hangman) has sports stars, Harry Potter book words, geography and science words, and more. It provides additional clues after each wrong guess.
§   Guess the Presidents (www.mce.k12tn.net/us_presidents/hangman.htm) does not limit number of guesses. Everyone wins eventually.
§   Music hangman (www.renoweb.net/rlam/game.htm) gives only one minute to figure out the music-related words.
§   Cleft the Spelling Clown (for PC) (www.akidsheart.com/threer/spellclowndes.htm) is a hangman type game that pops balloons. You can add up to 10 spelling lists of your choice.
§   Grey Olltwit's Hangman (for PC) (www.greyolltwit.com/hangman.html) includes a variety of categories.
o  Collective nouns and a whole lot more (www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html)
o  Words andPictures (www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml) many activities from the BBC.
o  FakeOut is a game of word definitions (www.eduplace.com/fakeout)
o  EDU4KIDS (www.edu4kids.com) has a vocabulary building activity.
o  Spell Check has 20 sets of four words to check your spelling skills (www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html).
o  VoyCabulary (www.voycabulary.com) makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up in a dictionary or other word-reference-site of your choice, by simply clicking on the words.
o  The Merrian-Webster site (m-w.com) has a box on the first page where you can enter a word. That will take you to a page where your computer will let you hear how the word is pronounced in "General America" accent.
o  Word Turtle provides a list of words which it will then hide in a puzzle in different levels of difficulty (www.funbrain.com/detect/). You can play it on the computer or print it out on paper.
o  TheDaily Crossword (thinks.com/crosswords/daily_crossword.htm)
o  Word Find Puzzles (www.eduplace.com/kids/games/wwf/index.html) - that can be printed out
o  Crosswordsand other puzzles(www.kidcrosswords.com/)
o  WordPlay contains many links to sites that can enhance vocabulary development (www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm).
o  Colored vocabulary flashcards in pdf format
§   Vocabulary University (www.vocabulary.com/) 

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