5/9/06

What a Response!

Many thanks to all of you who took the time to contact me about vocabulary you can use to work with students now, for clubs or to assign over the summer. I have finished three lists (with definitions, work sheets and answers, when pertinent.) They are automobile names, sports team names and types of roof and window styles. The latter lessons are to encourage students to look for these building features when they are outside walking, riding bikes, on inline skates or riding in a car.

You may download them as PDFs from our website www.wordwebvocabulary.com at no charge.

You will also find other PDFs that are already posted on our site that are sources of enriching, highly interesting and challenging lessons for students of all abilities. These include the color lessons (green, blue, red) in color, rather than black and white as they are in Word Web's first three volumes.

Also, on our site are the "Large, Larger, Largest" lessons about — you got it! – large sizes, such as gigantic, goliath, jumbo, cyclopean, titanic, plus seven more of these massive words, broken down into three separate parts.

These are formatted in the same manner as other Word Web lessons with our proprietary symbols, including Think Links® (questions for students to answer), Literary Links® and Featured Facts®, as well as three pages of notes for teachers, additional students' activities and answers to the Think Links®.

To get to this part of our website, click on Teacher's Entry Page. Once there, click on Student Enrichment.

And then, please, let me know how your students do with these different types of vocabulary extensions.

Also, continue to contact me through the info@wordwebvocabulary.com address, as my personal address is guarded by a very fierce spam control program.

That’s my word this time, Ellie

Word Web Vocabulary - recommended on Heidi Hayes-Jacobs' website - Moving vocabulary from the edge of language arts to its center