Teaching Vocabulary

Would you like to enrich your students' vocabularies?

This is the place where you can find all things realted to teaching Vocabulary! It includes the new Vocabulary Bands and articles about using and teaching them. You will also find excellent ideas and tools which will help you teach this content to your students.

Grades and main subjects in curriculum

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Vocabulary Bands

Vocabulary Bands I, II, III

Words from Band III

150 words from Band III on Vocabulary.com

A Practical Guide for Teaching Vocabulary

A handbook written by an Israel Ministry of Education team, led by Prof. Penny Ur

Quizlet for Vocabulary Practice and Enrichment

Irit Merchav writes about using Quizlet's Digital Flashcards.

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Activities

Flyswatter: ESL Vocabulary Game for Kids

Are you looking for a fun ESL game to review vocabulary with kids (and even adults)? Learn more about flyswatter

ESL Speaking: Dialogue Substitution

An activity to help your students learn new words and practice their oral skills

British Council: Games to Improve Vocabulary

Play games, have fun, and improve your English vocabulary at the same time

4 Fresh Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary

Try one of the following techniques to make new vocabulary more fun for both teachers and learners

Flyswatter: ESL Vocabulary Game for Kids

Are you looking for a fun ESL game to review vocabulary with kids (and even adults)? Learn more about flyswatter

ESL Speaking: Dialogue Substitution

An activity to help your students learn new words and practice their oral skills

British Council: Games to Improve Vocabulary

Play games, have fun, and improve your English vocabulary at the same time

4 Fresh Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary

Try one of the following techniques to make new vocabulary more fun for both teachers and learners

8 dictionary activities from Leoxicon

Leo Selivan shares 8 activities to get your students using learner's dictionaries and hopefully starting to appreciate their value

3 Fun Vocabulary Reviewing activities

Begin your lessons with quick five minutes activities that encourage your students to recall vocabulary items that they’ve learnt in previous lessons

Exploring Words

Ask your students to visit this site and search for a word, its pronunciation, its definition, and how to use it. In addition, the site offers information about the derivation of the word, asks a related thought-provoking question, and explains the correct answer

Mystery Word

This site includes more than 50 sets of five clues of mystery words. Your students can create their own mystery word of the day. They select words and create clues for each word

Using Photos to Enhance Vocabulary Acquistion

Activate your students vocabulary acquisition by displaying photos for the whole class and engage them in various activities. Here are some suggested activities and links to sites which offer free photos

Vocabulary Fun Exercises

Invite your students to learn and practice various vocabulary items

InstaVocabulary

Let's bring our students' world into our classroom. An innovative way to review vocabulary items in English

Google Translate Community Competition

Even if there IS not competition happening now, YOU can run your own in-class competition using this useful tool! You can find explainations, materials, ideas on the site

DOK2 Vocabulary Activity

Sample assignment using Googledocs for Vocabulary learning to increas critical thinking

Games for Improving Vocabulary

Vocabulary.co.il is a leading vocabulary website worldwide with the best flash online word games. The vocabulary games are popular for use on smart boards for word games to build vocabulary skills in classrooms

Using wordwebs and online thesauraus

Using Word Webs to Teach Synonyms for Commonly Used Words. The can do the activity on paper or online using one of the free mindmapping tools

Vocabulary Cube

This is a free printout which can be used with students in a fun, enriching group activity

Word ADDiction

When you have 10 minutes to fill in, this handy “Word ADDiction” print-and-teach worksheet was built to help fill all available class time while improving vocabulary

"Just Give the Word"

When you have 10 minutes to fill in, this handy “Just Give the Word” print-and-teach worksheet was built to help fill all available class time while improving vocabulary

Snappy Words (Flash Required)

It’s an online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it

VocabGrabbers

Copy and paste text into the box and this tool generates a word cloud to identify the key vocabulary. Sort words by content area

Just The Word

Just The Word is a cool website that helps students make informed decisions as to the right word selection to use in their writing

Word Spy

Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries

Word Hippo

Wordhippo is a great vocabulary web tool that lets you easily provide antonyms and synonyms to your words

Word Think

WordThink provides you with a daily reminder to use many of the words you already know, and add many new words to your vocabulary that you can actually use every day!

Ten Good Games for Recycling Vocabulary

A variety of sure-fire and engaging vocabulary recycling activities

Activate English

A collection of board games for practicing vocabulary and interacting verbally in English

Password

A fun game to be played in teams for any level class

Ladders website: Vocabulary Mini Units

Activities and games for teaching vocabulary, from Ladders - Israel's National Program to Promote English Teaching and Learning

Ladders website: Phrasal Verbs Activities

Activities and games for teaching phrasal verbs from the Ladders - Israel's National Program to Promote English Teaching and Learning

English-Well Website: Vocabulary Practice for High School

Teacher-produced activities based on different HS textbooks. Produced and shared by Natalia Pinchevsky, Mali Shochat, and Elena Fistul (from Makif Ramot, Beer Sheva)

Taboo

Taboo: an ESL Speaking Game for Kids and Adults

Roleplay Adventures for Enriching Vocabulary ~ The Teaching Cove

How To Use Roleplay Adventures To Teach Vocabulary Words (For Kids & Adults!) by The Teaching Cove

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Videos

MOVIES - Idioms in English

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Grades and main subjects in curriculum

Vocabulary Bands

Vocabulary Bands I, II, III

Words from Band III

A Practical Guide for Teaching Vocabulary

Quizlet for Vocabulary Practice and Enrichment

Vocabulary Bands I, II, III

Words from Band III

A Practical Guide for Teaching Vocabulary

Quizlet for Vocabulary Practice and Enrichment

10th Grade - Band III

Quizlet for 10th grade Band III

11th Grade - Band III

Quizlet for 11th Grade Band III

12th Grade - Band III

Quizlet for 12th Grade Band III

List: Most Comm Phrasal Verbs

5 Vocab Practices That Need Updating

Quizlet Live for in-class, team-based learning

Teacher Tube: Teaching Vocabulary with Graphic Organizers

How Google Translate is making learning English fun in Israel

How to Organize a Spelling Bee

Spelling-Words-Well Spelling Bee Rules

Myths and Tips: Using Electronic DIctionaries Part One

Myths and Tips: Using Electronic DIctionaries Part Two

Myths and Tips: Using Electronic DIctionaries Part Three

Myths and Tips: Using Electronic DIctionaries Part Four

Myths and Tips: Using Electronic DIctionaries Part Five

Activities

Flyswatter: ESL Vocabulary Game for Kids

ESL Speaking: Dialogue Substitution

British Council: Games to Improve Vocabulary

4 Fresh Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary

Flyswatter: ESL Vocabulary Game for Kids

ESL Speaking: Dialogue Substitution

British Council: Games to Improve Vocabulary

4 Fresh Ways to Introduce New Vocabulary

8 dictionary activities from Leoxicon

3 Fun Vocabulary Reviewing activities

Exploring Words

Mystery Word

Using Photos to Enhance Vocabulary Acquistion

Vocabulary Fun Exercises

InstaVocabulary

Google Translate Community Competition

DOK2 Vocabulary Activity

Games for Improving Vocabulary

Using wordwebs and online thesauraus

Vocabulary Cube

Word ADDiction

"Just Give the Word"

Snappy Words (Flash Required)

VocabGrabbers

Just The Word

Word Spy

Word Hippo

Word Think

Ten Good Games for Recycling Vocabulary

Activate English

Password

Ladders website: Vocabulary Mini Units

Ladders website: Phrasal Verbs Activities

English-Well Website: Vocabulary Practice for High School

Taboo

Roleplay Adventures for Enriching Vocabulary ~ The Teaching Cove

Videos

MOVIES - Idioms in English

Digital Tools

Wednesday Seminars: Make a Sentence

Johnny Grammar's Word Challenge

Kahoot

Quizlet

Quizlet Live

Quizizz

English Teaching 101

Free Rice: Vocabulary

Wednesday Seminars: Make a Sentence

Johnny Grammar's Word Challenge