A collection of resources after Judith Maginnis Kuster
www.communicationdisorders.com
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Free Rice
- donates 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program for each vocabulary
word you get right!
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World of Words vocabulary
games by Lonn Swanson (www.quia.com/pages/worldowords.html)
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Online version of TwentyQuestions - (come.to/20Q)
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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.
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Cricker
(crickler.com/crickler.html) - a new type of crossword puzzle that gears itself
to your level.
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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.
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Collective nouns and a whole
lot more (www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html)
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Words andPictures (www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml) many
activities from the BBC.
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FakeOut
is a game of word definitions (www.eduplace.com/fakeout)
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EDU4KIDS
(www.edu4kids.com) has a vocabulary building activity.
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Spell Check has 20 sets of
four words to check your spelling skills (www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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TheDaily Crossword (thinks.com/crosswords/daily_crossword.htm)
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Word Find Puzzles
(www.eduplace.com/kids/games/wwf/index.html) - that can be printed out
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Crosswordsand other puzzles(www.kidcrosswords.com/)
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WordPlay contains many links to sites that can enhance vocabulary development
(www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm).
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Colored vocabulary flashcards in pdf format
§ Vocabulary University
(www.vocabulary.com/)
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