25 New Topics Added to Vocabulary.co.il

25 new topics have been added to the free, educational website: Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun  The new topics include individual word lists for pre-kindergarten to 8th grade. Over 600 new words have been added to the database. There are now 219 topics and 10,353 words in the vocabulary database. There are many suitable topics [...]

Posted in New Topics on September 19th, 2007
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Teaching with Crossword Puzzles

The History of CrossWord Puzzles  The first “word-cross” in the United States was published in the New York World in 1913, although similar puzzles have been around in different forms since Egyptian times. In 19 th century England, they were aimed mostly at a juvenile audience, and did not become a craze for adults until [...]

Posted in Building Vocabulary Skills on September 10th, 2007
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