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Author Interview Recap: Vocab Gal (almost) Interviews President Obama

In honor of President’s Day earlier this week, I’d like to say that I have interviewed President Obama. Unfortunately, he is a bit hard to reach, but I do have three awesome...

Vocabulary Activity: Create Your Own Award with Vocabulary

As promised, I mused over vocabulary activities involving awards after receiving approbation as a Best Teacher Blogger from We Are Teachers two weeks ago. The result: I...

Author Interview: Matt de la Peña

Matt de la Peña comes from humble beginnings and has achieved a modicum of success that would make many authors a bit supercilious, but he remains nonchalant and humble.

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Rainbows & Rainclouds Phonics Game

Grades K–3

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Vocab Gal's Favorite Test Prep Resources Kit

Grades 3–12+

Vocabulary In The Lyrics Activity – Exploring Words & Context Clues in Music

So often, we think that students will never voluntarily expand their vocabulary. We think it is only through our constant inundation of vocabulary in the classroom that they...

2012 Vocab Gal Blog in Review

It has been quite the exhilarating year as Vocab Gal. From the Vocabulary Relay Game in January to the Vocabulary Playlists in December, I’ve been trying all kinds of...

Create A Vocab Playlist Vocabulary Activity, Grades 6–12

My students love music-they walk in to class with earphones in or t-shirts blazoned with their favorite bands. One day last week, I was reviewing vocabulary definitions at...

Vocabulary Games: Banned Words, Grades 3–8

Yesterday I realized I could tweak one of my favorite games to play in college for classroom vocabulary instruction! With my Banned Words/Guess that Word vocabulary game,...

How to Use Author Interviews to Meet Common Core Standards

Since the beginning of the year, I have been showing my students the Vocab Gal videos where I interview young adult authors about their favorite words and the reasons they...

Vocabulary Activity: Words Make The Man

I’d like to think that words make the man, rather than clothes (I also want to say human rather than just man). When it came to making my own business cards a few years ago,...

Author Interview: James Dashner

My students are obsessing over James Dashner right now. If one of them picks up The Maze Runner, as soon as they finish, they must grab the sequel right then and there and...

Author Interview: Veronica Roth

All of my students and I have been talking nonstop about the Divergent trilogy. The second book in the series, Insurgent, was recently released, and everyone I know has read...

Vocabulary Practice: The Writing on the Classroom Walls

I will admit to being a high school English teacher with a word wall. Okay three word walls to be precise-one for each level of vocabulary I teach. I have finally realized...

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