Tools and sites to help students develop their vocabulary.

1. Words, Words, Words

2. “Writers fish for the right words
like fishermen fish for, um,
whatever those aquatic creatures
with fins and gills are called.”
Jarrod Kintz

3. Vocabulary is the glue that
holds stories, ideas and
content together… making
comprehension accessible.

4. Visualising Words
• Wordle
• Tagexdo
• Word Sift
• Vocab Grabber

5. Online Dictionaries
• Lexipedia
• Visuwords
• Shahi

6. Graphic
Organisers
• Alphaboxes
• Word Detective
• Word Cluster
• Knowledge Rating
• Frayer Model
Detective’s Name: Sentence where I found the word:
WORD:
Context Clue:
Context Clue:
Part of Speech:
My Own Sentence:
My Own Definition:
A picture that will remind me of what this word means to me:

7. Just Cool…
• http://taggalaxy.de/
• Lingro

8. Growing and Showing
• Words Tiers 2 and 3
• Podcasts
• Powerpoints
• Picture and caption
• Vocabulary Paint Chips

9. Vocabulary Games and Activities
• http://www.vocabulary.co.il/
• Academic Vocabulary Games
• Vocabulary Field Trips
• Word Collection Jars
• Word of the Day
• Word Pictures

10. Spin It!

11. 20 times
In context!

12. “As vocabulary is reduced , so are the
number of feelings you can express, the
number of events you can describe, the
number of the things you can identify!
Not only understanding is limited, but
also experience. Man grows by language.
Whenever he limits language he
retrogresses!” Sheri S Tepper

13. We think with
words, therefore to improve
thinking, teach vocabulary.
-- A. Draper and G. Moeller