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Articles from March, 2016
Success Stories
How Houston ISD Boosted Literacy District-Wide and Dominated the Vocabulary Bowl
District schools built a culture of word learning and got students in the competitive spirit.
The Houston Independent School District has made boosting literacy a district-wide goal, and to that end, it has rolled out Vocabulary.com to all middle school and high school students in the district. In the process, Houston ISD schools have dominated the nationwide Vocabulary Bowl.
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Fake mobsters in suits and spats are pretentious. But a horse head in your bed? That's portentous. And also, call the police.
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Fictional, fictive, and fictitious all branch off the "fiction" tree, but fictional is literary, fictive is specific, and fictitious is just plain fake.
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Maryland's Buck Lodge Middle School Makes Dramatic Lexile Gains
School's big boost in test scores inspires district-wide literacy efforts.
When Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi, MD used Vocabulary.com to improve its lexile scores, their success inspired a district-wide adoption among Title 1 schools to achieve literacy goals.
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The word facetious describes something you don't take seriously. Remove the middle "e," and factious describes a dissenting group. And finally there's fatuous, which is a fancy way to say dumb.
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Zanesville High School Focuses on Vocabulary to Close the Achievement Gap
Teachers say the "more nuanced" and "in depth" approach is already paying off.
Follow the story of an Ohio high school addressing reading deficits behind the achievement gap with a targeted vocab intervention using Vocabulary.com. Students are having fun with the game and teachers love the progress they are making.
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Nearly 800 witty entries from around the world made judging this year's Vocabulary Video Contest harder than ever.
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