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**Vocabulary Instruction **


 * = Vocabulary is Fun is vocabulary website with online word games. The vocabulary games include an online word search, an online crossword puzzle, and hangman online Users choose the vocabulary list that the online word game will use in the word game. []  =
 * **[|Helping Children at Home with Vocabulary Building] from the Child Development Institute is a helpful outline of suggestions for parents as "language models" **
 * [|Homonyms from Alan Cooper] is an entire website devoted to types of homonyms with an ever growing list of homonyms to learn about.
 * [|How to Really Teach Vocabulary: The Clarifying Routine] written by Edwin Ellis and Theresa Farmer
 * [|Ideas for Using Vocabulary] from Middlesmoor Teachers in Yorkshire, England includes over 50 instructional strategies for teaching vocabulary sets to students and two categories of vocabulary sets
 * [|Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary] summarizes Dodie Ainslie's article Word Detectives in The Reading Teacher.
 * [|Teaching Vocabulary] is an opinion piece on using the Word of the Day strategy
 * [|Two Dozen Tips for Teaching Vocabulary] from Joseph Pettigrew
 * [|ProTeacher's Index of Vocabulary Websites] provides links to 15 resources, most of which can be used by students.
 * [|Vocabulary Cartoons] offers items to purchase as well as vocabulary lists for students at various levels and a free chapter to use.
 * [|Vocabulary Acquisition Synthesis of Research] was prepared by the National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators.
 * [|Ways to Teach Vocabulary] from the Resource Room includes multisensory activity ideas, a [|word parts] exercise, and suggestions for [|categorizing] words.
 * [|Word Play by Judi Wolinsky] highlights atleast 100 online resources to learn more about words, their origins, their meanings, their spellings and lots more.
 * [|Writing Den] includes audio clips and great content for enhancing comprehension at the word, sentence and paragraph level.
 * [|Vocabulary Learning and Speaking Activities] from Angelo Jo for Forum.
 * [|Vocabulary Instructional Tips]
 * [|Excellent Vocabulary Resource List] from includes some websites that use literature and others that encourage play with words and language.