Vocabulary.co.il Just Got Better!!

In fact, you won’t BELIEVE how much better until you actually visit the site for yourself!  In addition to a general “facelift”, Vocabulary.co.il has added new games, new navigational menus, and a host of other ways to build your vocabulary. Let’s look at some of the newest features… Games by Grade Level Now you can [...]

Eight Letters in Search of a Word – - A Walkthrough

One of my all-time favorite games at Vocabulary.co.il is Eight Letters in Search of a Word.  Probably goes back to those elementary school days where the teacher would put up some random holiday-related word like “reindeer” and have us pass the time (and give her time for a smoke break) by finding all the words [...]

Those Confounding Compound Words

One of the questions my son asks me most often as he is writing is “Is ______ a compound word?”  I’m not exactly sure why compound words are so difficult to learn except that there doesn’t seem to be a hard and fast English rule about when to use them. Even word experts don’t agree [...]