Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Online Resources for Vocabulary Instruction

from Educational Leadership/October 2010: "The Words Students Need"

To identify high-frequency cross-content words:
The Academic Word List: www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist
Word Count: www.wordcount.org/main/php

To create student-friendly word definitions:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: www.ldoceonline.com

To support students' morphological skills and word learning strategies:
Visuword Online Graphical Dictionary: www.visuwords.com/search
WordSift: www.wordsift.com


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