Studying Words Lists with Technology

Teachers use word lists in many ways. They're used to:

•  to introduce a content area and evoke prior knowledge
•  review content,
• to teach phonics rule with a list organized around a phonics rules such sight, bright, and light.
• to highlight some spelling rules to pay attention to (ie multiple ways of writing the same sound):  bright, bite, fight, height etc
• to teach suffixes, prefixes, and word roots. For example: telephone, homophone, microphone

In almost every subject, word lists are an effective tool.  Does your classroom or school have a standard technology or method of dealing with word lists? Should you?

VocabularySpellingCity allows teachers and parents to set up a free homepage to store as many word lists as they want for their students.  There are 10 free learning games to use with any list (ie a spelling test, HangMan,  word unscramble, wordsearch, hangman,  alphabetical order practice,).  Premium Members ($2 per student per year or less) have  another 16 different learning games and objects to use covering writing activities (write a sentence showing you understand the use of each word), word definitions, the use of words in context, plus all your favorite games (using your own lists)  such as crossword puzzle, Letterfall, and Speedy Speller.

There are also teaching resources with lessons and activities, all correlated to educational standards, on topics such as:

Language Arts Lessons

• Analogies
• Antonyms
• Capitonyms
• Compound Words
• Contractions
• Figurative Language
• Homophones & Homonyms
• Parts of Speech
• Plural Nouns
• Possessive Nouns
• Syllables
• Synonyms
• Verb Tenses