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6 Useful Vocabulary Websites

In Closing The Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley11/04/20182 Comments

The web is full of websites on vocabulary: good, bad and ugly. Here are six of my favourite free vocabulary websites that I think are useful for teachers and students alike: …

Haggard Hawks 📚🦅@HaggardHawks·

A Latin equivalent of ‘between a rock and a hard place’ was ‘a fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi’—literally ‘a precipice in front, wolves behind’.

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Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish·

Lovely etymology of ‘exorbitant’, along with a few additional treats, from @susie_dent

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NEW BLOG: Handbooks for Humans – 5 simple ways to use stories to deepen children’s social and emotional learning skills

"Sharing a class story gives endless opportunity to share emotional responses" writes deputy head & Year 5 teacher @BethRowe1: https://eef.li/yeuFF5

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‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

We are ‘Doing Curriculum’ – so what are we stopping?

Curriculum Development and Teacher Development

On the RISE

What do we mean by ‘knowledge rich’ anyway?

Vocabulary Clinic

More than Just ‘Word Walls’