Knowing+v.+Owning+a+Word

=Knowing a Word v. Owning a Word: Best Practices for Deeper Language Learning=

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**Web sites to use with students: **
[|A+FlashCards Pro] (app) [|Beginning Level Flashcards]and [|ESL Library.com] - print for in-class use [|Cram flashcards] – with app [|Flashcard Stash] [|Flashcards Deluxe] – with app [|Memrise] – use or create own vocabulary courses with interactive flashcards (beginning – advanced, TOEFL, business English, much more) - with app [|Quizlet] [|Study Blue] – with app [|Study Stack]
 * Flashcards: **

[|English Language World] [|ESOL Help Online Picture Dictionary] [|Internet Picture Dictionary] [|Language Guide] [|Learning Chocolate] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Madrid Teacher] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam][|-][|Webster Visual Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Photographic Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Snappy Words] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|The Visual Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Thinglink] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|VocabGrabber]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visual/Picture Dictionaries: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Academic Word List Exercises] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Activities for ESL Students] vocabulary quizzes <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A Guide to Learning English – Academic Vocabulary Exercises] [|Articulate! Vocab Expander]-- Apple app Bitsboard with app <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Cloze Test Generator] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Cloze Test Creator] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Easy World of English] – Picture Dictionary and Readings <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Enchanted Learning English (ESL) Label Me! Printouts] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|English Page – Advanced Vocabulary Lessons] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|English Vocabulary] [|Exercises] [|English Vocabulary for Beginners] [|ESL Desk] [|ESL Games Plus] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|ESL Games World Vocabulary Games] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Free Puzzlemaker – Discovery Education] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Free Rice] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Funbrain – reading and word games for kids] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Games to Learn English] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Hello World – games and activities for kids] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Illustrate Video Dictionary – [|Apple app] and [|Android app] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Interesting Things for ESL Students Vocabulary][|Games and Quizzes] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|LanguageGuide] [|Learn English with Pictures and Audio] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Learnclick Cloze Quiz Creator] – with app <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Learning Chocolate] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learning Vocabulary Fun <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Listen and Write Dictations] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Madrid Teacher] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Novel Games] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Quia Shared Vocabulary Games and Exercises] [|Vocabulary Games] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Quizicon: 100 Most Common English Words Quiz] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|REEP's English Practice] [|See Touch Learn] (ipad app) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Spelling Bee @ Learner.org] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|SpellingCity Word Lists] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Using English for Academic Purposes: Vocabulary for EAP] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Vocab Test] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|VocabAhead] – app <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|VocabKitchen] – vocabulary profiler and social reader tool <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Vocabulary.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vocabulary Games <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">VocabSushi <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Whirly Word]- Apple app
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exercises, Games, Quizzes: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">+ see Ed Technology and Mobile Learning's [|16 Websites to Teach and Learn Vocabulary]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Books that Grow <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Breaking News English <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">News in Levels <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Newsela <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DOGO News (more aimed at kids) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Knowble <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reading Skills for Today's Adult //The Times //in Plain English
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Leveled Reading Web Sites: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Dictionary.com] (see [|Word Dynamo] game, slideshows, and other word games) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Instagrok] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|OneLook Reverse Dictionary](when a word is on the tip of your tongue, type in the description to find the word) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary Online] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam][|-][|Webster](see [|Top Ten Lists]of less-commonly known words based around an interesting theme, [|Words for Things You Didn’t Know Have Names,][|Videos][|,][|Name That Thing]timed visual quiz, [|Trend Watch,]20 [|online word games][|),] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary] (see [|Word of the Day] and [|Pronunciation Exercises]) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Mnemonic Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Ozdic English Collocations Dictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Wiktionary in Simple English] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Wordsmyth Online English Dictionary-Thesaurus] + several tools (glossary and quiz maker) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Word Hippo <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|YourDictionary] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">OneLook Reverse Dictionary <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Tip of My Tongue]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dictionaries: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Go English] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Idiomsite] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Self-Study Idioms]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Idioms **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|A.Word.A.Day] at [|WordSmith.org] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Merriam][|-][|Webster's Word of the Day] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Word Central Daily Buzzword] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|L10]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Email Subscriptions **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Urban Dictionary <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Slang Dictionary
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Slang **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Human Anatomy Online <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kids Konnect Human Body <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MEDtropolis The Virtual Body tour (also in Spanish) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visible Body: 3D Human Anatomy (there is a subscription fee)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anatomy **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Forumotion - create a free online discussion board Lingro- enter URL; site makes clickable links that provide dictionary definitions to words in content Rewordify - enter text or URL; site simplifies the content <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">VoyCabulary - enter URL or text; site transforms content with links to references, including definitions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Password Game Template
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web Tools **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources and Resources for Tutors and Teachers: **
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**10 Dos and Don'ts for Effective Vocabulary Instruction Infographic**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Word Lists:** [|A New General Service List], [|Oxford English Corpus], [|Academic Word List], [|A New Academic Word List], [|The Corpus of Contemporary American English]


 * Collocations:** [|Just the Word], [|FLAX Library]

5 Simple Steps for Effective Vocabulary Instruction <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Academic Vocabulary] – site with several tools, exercise creators, more <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Compleat Lexical Tutor] - numerous tools <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colorin Colorado - Selecting Vocabulary to Teach English Language Learners (3 tiers of words) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|English Language & Usage Stack Exchange] – Q&A site for linguists, etymologists, and English language enthusiasts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Learning Center Exchange - [|9 Types of Mnemonics for Better Memory] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keys to Learning: Effective Vocabulary Instruction (PDF) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Lexile Framework for Reading] – matching reading level with texts and [|Lexile Analyzer] [|Pearson Reading Maturity Metric] [|Readability] [|Readability-Score.com] - Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Ease [|ReadWriteThink Student Interactives] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|VocabularySize.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Vocabulogic Blog] [|Word Information]
 * Tools/Resources:**


 * For extra reading:**

Chen, Yu Hua. "The Use of Corpora in the Vocabulary Classroom." The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. X, No. 9, Sept. 2004, accessed online at []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|College & Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goodwin-Jones, R. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Emerging Technologies. From memory palaces to spacing algorithms Approaches to Second-Language Vocabulary Learning (PDF).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gairns, R. & Redman, S. (1986). Working with Words: A guide to teaching and learning vocabulary. Cambridge University Press.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grabe, W. & Stoller, F. (1997). Reading and vocabulary development in a second language: A case study. In J. Coady & T. Huckin (Eds.), Second language vocabulary acquisition (pp. 98-122). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gu, P.Y.“Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language: Person, Task, Context and Strategies.” TESL Electronic Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, Sept. 2003. Accessed online at [].

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kinsella, K. (2005). [|Aiming High: Teaching Academic Vocabulary]. Sonoma County Office of Education.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) [|-] [|Assessment Strategies and Reading Profiles]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marzano’s Six-Step Process: The Art and Science of Teaching: Six Steps to Better Vocabulary Instruction and [|Teaching Academic Vocabulary]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">McCarten, J. (2007). Teaching Vocabulary: Lessons from the Corpus, Lessons for the Classroom. Cambridge University Press. Online at []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National Reading Technical Assistance Center (2010). A Research Synthesis: A Review of the Current Research on Vocabulary Instruction, accessed online at []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary (2014). Averil Coxhead, ed. TESOL International Press.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prentice Hall eTeach article “Strategies for Vocabulary Development” by Dr. Kate Kinsella, Dr. Colleen Shea Stump, and Dr. Kevin Feldman, online at []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Schmitt, N. (2000). Vocabulary in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Second Story Window Blog posts, “[|Tools for Vocabulary Instruction: A Teacher Resource Pack],” and “[|Knowing a Word: Assessing Vocabulary]”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Super Duper Handy Handouts! [|Three Tiers of Vocabulary and Education]