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More Ideas for Teaching Vocabulary

Concept Maps at Mind Tools US http://www.psychwww.com/mtsite/mindmaps.html

Concept Maps can provide an extremely effective method of taking notes which shows the structure of a subject and the relative importance of facts and ideas in addition to the vocabulary words themselves. This site gives helpful hints on creating concept maps.

Scholastic Reading Clinic 

Scroll past the primary activity to find two good intermediate level vocabulary activities:  "Webbing Roots" and making a  "Vocabulary Record."

Awesome Library

This searchable online library has links to interesting vocabulary activities and so much more.

Discovery School has many teacher tools and resources.  They also have a Parents' site.  Some Discovery School sites are featured below.

Discovery School's Puzzlemaker has many tools for parents, students and teachers that generate vocabulary games with definitions, crossword puzzles, word searches, math puzzles and more. 

Discovery School's Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators  

Kathy Schrock keeps up with what's new on the web so you don't have to.  Her site is indexed by subject and alphabetically and contains links to numerous activities.

Ask Eric has an excellent professional collection for educators.

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