Students today are rarely “disconnected.”  From Smartphones to netbooks, iPads to BlueTooth, they have less and less need to be chained down to a stationary personal computer.  Which leads those of us with traditional flash-based educational websites scrambling to catch up with the mobile trend.  At Vocabulary.co.il, we’re interested in how YOU use our games.  [...]

If you are an elementary teacher or homeschool teacher, then I hope you have heard of Laura Candler.  If you haven’t, then you are in luck today, because I’m going to share with you the amazing web-based resources that Laura has collected.  I’d especially like to focus on her vocabulary resources! Teaching Resources is Laura’s [...]

A prefix is a group of letters attached to the beginning of a root or word (or even group of words) serving to modify and/or extend meaning. Prefixes generally have an easily understood meaning in and of themselves, which they apply to the root word to which they are affixed. For example, “un” is a [...]

One of the most fun parts of teaching English to students is by letting them discover figurative language.  Figurative language is any speech that is not meant to be taken literally.  Students in traditional classrooms and ESL classrooms will enjoy learning about three of the most interesting types of figurative language in English: idioms, oxymorons, [...]