Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Building a Better Vocabulary
This is an index of vocabulary-building information and quizzes, including a list of roots, prefixes, and suffixes with their meanings. It offers 365 SAT and GRE level vocabulary words, definitions, and sample sentences. The quizzes...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Specialty Dictionaries
This site offers links to over 100 dictionaries and glossaries on a huge variety of subjects. L.9-10.6 Vocabulary
World Food Programme
Free Rice: English Vocabulary
This vocabulary game helps students learn vocabulary and while earning free rice to feed the hungry. When they answer correctly, the next word gets more difficult and 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
Contains plans for two lessons that explain an inductive method for analyzing poetry. Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking" is analyzed using this model as an example, although the method can be used on a variety of poems. In addition to...
Other
Acronym Finder: Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary
Journalists are inundated with acronyms. This site contains 240,000 of them and their meanings. Search tool allows you to enter the exact acronym or the first letter. You can even enter a keyword and look for acronyms that include it....
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Sat, Act, Gre Test Prep
This page has links to 12 lesson plans include 252 SAT test words. Each SAT and ACT lesson plan includes interactive word puzzles, a definition match, a fill-in-the-blank, a crossword, reading passages, and a word search activity....